Mike McGavick might have been blown out by the largest margin in a Washington Senate race since "Scoop" Jackson was drawing breath. But despite his losing performance, two of the ideas which the former Safeco CEO espoused during his ill-fated campaign have come to pass.
In October, McGavick began officially calling for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to step down. With Democrats soon to be controlling the House and Senate, "Rummy" headed off two years of testifying in front of congressional committees by tendering his resignation to the White House.
Earlier this year McGavick's campaign website began sporting a blog where the candidate opined on different issues. In what was definitely one of the "SayWA" moments of the election season chose as one of his first blog entries to call for the expulsion of Iran's national soccer team from the 2006 World Cup. McGavick penned an article for the Weekly Standard along a similar vein. Iran played in the World Cup this summer but two days ago FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) announced that it had suspended the Iranian team from participating in any further international competitions.
Political prognostications like this would make Edgar Cayce jealous and should earn McGavick a spot as an expert on one of our cable news networks. Or at least a Capitol Hill-based psychic helpline.
With this type of predictive success perhaps McGavick should next call for a six-lane bridge with a shoulder to replace the Evergreen Point floating bridge. Or at least for Kim Jon Il, Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be locked in a room full of feral jackals...
MoveOn.org was running ads urging Rumsfeld's resignation in 2004, after our abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib became public knowledge. (And his doing so then would not have been as utterly self-serving as your paragraph admits. Amazing how accountability happens only after a real threat emerges.) Any kudos for MoveOn's amazing predictive powers?
Posted by: Paddy Mac on November 24, 2006 06:36 PMWhat good would that do? The jackals wouldn't attack out of professional courtesy ;^)
Posted by: rbb on November 24, 2006 07:51 PM1) If McGavick had actually shown better resutls than Craswell, maybe his opinions would matter
2) You picked two obvisous things the whole world knew and this said something about McGavick?
Time to remove head from sand and face reality....McGavick and fellow republicans have been objects of delusion for many years now...and the fire is out of the fireplace.
Posted by: Hank Haport on November 25, 2006 04:34 AMThis is of course a joke, but I wonder if there is some truth to this speculation.
Posted by: C. Oh on November 25, 2006 11:09 AMAs for Iran's soccer team, it appears they were expelled because of political interference in their soccer team, which is forbidden. Iran's politics played no part in the decision. Of course both result from an authoritarian government, and you could say FIFA's rationale doesn't matter since McGavick is happy with the outcome. But ironically it was McGavick who tried to interject politics into sports; nothing about FIFA's action makes his position any less silly.
Posted by: Bruce on November 25, 2006 03:31 PMOr, Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.
Posted by: Banshee on November 26, 2006 03:42 PM