Steve Rose Reads Life in SOJOCO

I might be one of the few people reading The Sun these days but I have to admit I was a little flattered that Steve Rose basically ripped off my post primary analysis specifically my thoughts on the Yoder-Lightner race for the 3rd and my continuing thoughts on John Toplikar and the dogmatic pharisee right of the conservative party. He just made it sound....well, nicer for broader publication. I don't have to be so nice.

Did you see my post on Monday?

You can compare to my post here. So, what do you think? Rose reads Life in SOJOCO....don't you think??

Well, at any rate, I'm honored...........though it would have nice to have been given credit for it. My dump of a blog needs all the support it can get.

Oh well............I'm a blogger not a member of the media and I steal stuff all the time. Oh, come back a little later on Friday and I'll still have a wine post for you.

Thanks Steve.

14,894 Idiots in Johnson County

Counting. We all break things down to make sense of them.

We all know there are Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes in a year courtesy of Seasons of Love from Rent and you know I count them all by LOVE.

We all know who won and lost last week but I thought I take a little deeper look into the number for a second.....a reality check.

John Toplikar received 14,894 votes in a losing effort. Is this the size of the voting extreme right in JOCO or is this the size of the No tax, No annexation group in this county? He beat John Segale as he garnered 7693 votes. John Patrick Segale is on suicide watch right about now. A dude who is a complete idiot and a criminal doubled his vote total. Ouch. I'm not sure if this is the size of the hard core, blind, dogmatic right but if it is on the one hand I'm pleased it is so small and on the other..........scared that there are 14,894 idiots in this county. I guess you could also say since turnout was only about 20% that 14894 represents just the VOTING hard core, blind, dogmatic right and that the real total is about 75,000 registered voters?

Looking at things another way.........I was interested in the power of packing the race with lots of candidates. In the US House 3rd District race where we all but conceded Yoder would roll to an easy victory had a decent challenge in Patricia Lightner. But the real story to me is that more people voted AGAINST Yoder than voted for him. Including Lightner's pull, 35,650 voted against Yoder combining all 8 candidates not named Kevin Yoder. Hmmmm......interesting. Had any three of the candidates in a crowded field NOT run and NOT supported Yoder we could be looking at a Chick Fight for the 3rd....well, some might contend it is still a chick fight. Now, we know Yoder would have pulled his share of those votes but you never know and now we'll never know. Just how big is the Johnson County Tea Party?

Another interesting question is how big is typical JOCO person's sphere of influence? With no money and no big organization behind you how many people like you enough to vote for you in Johnson County. It seems to be about 1,600. Of the "all others" most of them received about 1,600 to 1,700 votes. So if you are a good, decent person between your family, friends and the friends they are willing to encourage your sphere of influence should be about 1,600 people. Even Tom Scherer got 2,545 protest votes but because of the outrage of thinking that a elected job is a family right he should have seen an even bigger turnout. Should have been more. Can't figure that one out.

The lesson might be that to just be in the race when you know you don't have the financial backing or experience CAN have an impact on the final result AND just might hurt your cause mortally. While it might be your right as an American.....it might be just downright unAmerican to run when you know you can't win. But then again, if you are Tom Scherer....please by all meaning don't break the streak now....there might be world record for longest continuous campaign at risk.

Anyway, we now know that if you go missing in Johnson County you should be able to get about 1,600 people to help look for you or at least post a lame message about you on their Facebook page.

It Sucks to Be Right.......

Nope. It feels great to be right tonight.

Only. Who were the 15,000 idiots who voted for John M Toplikar?

Seriously. WTF.

Jerry Moran will be the next Senator from Kansas and FINALLY a conservative will retake the 3rd District.

Lots of great work by many grassroots level conservatives.

I chatted with Patricia Lightner online last night briefly. She looks like Ann Archer to me. She ran a good race. Yoder was just too strong.

How can you not be excited about Moran and Yoder representing Kansas for a long time?

Truly, it is time for all REAL conservatives to come together and support our candidates.

Congrats to the people who worked so hard on these campaigns. I've been on both sides.

BTW, it was a good week on the blog. I surpassed 15,000 unique visitors since I started keeping track which was about when I started making fun of Tom Scherer...........and Dems send him packing to Florida tonight..........shocker.

Vaya Con Dios.

It has been a good run......This blog is for sale....cheap.

This blog has been tons of fun. I've actually kept it going WAY longer than I ever thought.

I still have plenty on my mind just no time to get it down and hit the post button. I just can't keep it up on a consistent basis. I thought election season would inspire me. I noticed signs from people I didn't even know were running....and I follow this crap. Anyway.....Tiahrt seems to be getting some momentum but the outcome seems defined for JOCO and I'm more than comfortable with it. Yoder will win the 3rd and Moran will be our next Senator and is there any doubt that Brownback with be the Gov for 2 terms or possibly one with another run for President.

Anyway.......I've decided to end my regular postings on this blog. Some of you (should I say both of you) have been very loyal readers and I really appreciate that you were interested in anything I've had to write.

There are so many really good local blogs. SOB, Sinic, and Tony: you certainly inspired me and there are so many other really good bloggers as well....too many to name. Thank you for supporting me when Tom wanted to kill me :-) and for the encouragement. I'll keep reading.

I want to thank everyone who has read and contributed so much over the years.

So, seriously, if you or someone you know might want to take over as the voice of Jocoeveryman....or woman I guess for that matter let me know. It is isn't very technical. If you can write an email you can manage a blog. It isn't technically for sale but I'd be happy to hand it over to someone who wants to take a crack at it.

Send me an email at jocoeveryman@hotmail.com if you are interested.

You can have it all for one low, low price.

Assets include:

1 Facebook account with about 200 friends (more than most of you wankers)

1 Twitter account

1 email account (jocoeveryman@hotmail.com)

1 blog

Scherer Has Officially Jumped the Shark. I endorse Yoder.

I have been busier than a one armed wallpaper hanger lately. I feel bad that I haven't written more. Really. I hope both people who read will forgive me. Maybe you needed a break too?

Anyway........I hate it that so many good sojoco blog topics whizzed past while I couldn't get the time to get to the computer but if you thought I was going to let Tom Scherer's party switch-er-oooo---redux---you are allegedly even more nuts than Tom (I allege). Am I being punked?

Tom Scherer has left the GOP and rejoined the Democrats.

I wrote this before as part of a bigger post quite awhile ago but I believe as whole heartedly as William Hung believes he can sing that Tom Scherer is absolutely obsessed with running for (and losing) the 3rd District. What would you call that? What kind of mania is that? Congressionalania? Thirddistrictialoserepeatedlyamania? I dunno.

What I do know is this.......Tom can sell everything he owns including every baseball card he has ever tried to buy on ebay and every nickel he has never gotten from threatening to sue the world and throw it at running for the Third Congressional district and he will still lose. I think Tom MUST know this. But the nomination? VERY possible if we all work together like Howard Stern pushing Sanjaya. I mean it. Get it? Let's make the geek homecoming king if only for just a night.

Tom, all us still residing in the GOP are cheering for you. Really. Give Stephene hell. If you get a debate with her I want a front row ticket. Oddly he might have a point in that he will obviously do better just getting the protest Democratic vote. I want to be the first one to officially endorse Tom Scherer for the Democratic nomination for the 3rd Congressional District. I want to see that win. I might even contribute.

Sinic wrote a great post on it.

I will say he writes some very funny stuff and I definitely think it is must read. When I saw this....seriously.......I thought I was being punked. I had to check to make sure it wasn't April 1st. I was looking for Ashton Kusher to pop out at any moment.

What comes after "jumping the shark".....hell........not even Happy Days had the balls to try to overcome that one.

And while I'm at it for 3rd District politics I guess I'll end any further anticipation from my friends in the GOP and endorse Kevin Yoder.

Yoder will win the GOP nomination and I predict get an easy win against Scherer in the general. I like that he is young and will in all likelihood hold the seat for many years. I accept that he might have been a little liberal in his youth but it seems plausible that one evolves in their politics as they start to pay taxes. Yoder is clearly the best choice and the safe choice. Yoder is a legit fiscal conservative.

He has stated his core priorities which I completely agree with regarding waste and deficit spending. That is what this election is about. Sending someone to Washington who will try to rein in the spending of our grand kids cash. I encourage you to support Kevin Yoder as well.

What do you think? Yoder v Scherer? I like the sound of it.