Further illustrating an earlier point

I've put up only one post about the dispute over the balloting in the race between Democrat Christine Gregoire and GOPper Dino Rossi for governor of Washington, that one back at the end of December. As I said at the time, "I don't get too much into GOPpy v. Dummycrat deals" and I figure if you're interested there are blogs just drowning in such things so I don't have much to contribute. In fact, I wrote about it then more to point up what a bunch of hypocritical, whining crybabies conservatives are: After a machine recount showed Rossi's initial margin of 261 votes shrinking to just 42,

Democrat Christine Gregoire wanted a manual recount.

The GOPpy response was immediate and predictable: They declared victory, had a party, and called on her to drop the whole idea and concede defeat. If she failed to do so, she'd "have to answer to the public" if things "dragged on" into January - and, they warned, even if a recount reversed the result, it would be "very difficult for her to be seen as a legitimate governor."

During the recount, they tried to prevent counting of some votes that were found to have been mistakenly not counted. And when the recount showed Gregoire winning by 129 votes, the same GOPpers who demanded she quit when she trailed by 42 votes to avoid "dragging things out," filed suit to throw out the results and demanded a new election.

Well, the case went to court, during the course of which the GOPpers, the same sort of people who will sneer "get over it" if you mention Florida 2000 and call you a paranoid conspiracy nut if you dare to refer to Ohio 2004, repeatedly labeled every slip and snag in election procedures as "sinister." To no avail, as it turns out. On Monday, they lost.

The election - decided by an amazingly narrow margin of 129 votes out of 2.9 million cast - included 1,678 illegally cast ballots, Chelan County Superior Court Judge John Bridges found.

But in a ruling issued in his Wenatchee courtroom, Bridges rejected GOP claims that the election was stolen through errors and fraud, and said Republicans had failed to prove that Rossi would have won had the illegal votes been disregarded.

"Unless an election is clearly invalid, when the people have spoken their verdict should not be disturbed by the courts," Bridges said. Nullifying the election, he said, would be "the ultimate act of judicial egotism and judicial activism."

In the wake of the decision, Rossi said he would not appeal, putting an end to the dispute. But again typical for his ilk, he couldn't just leave it at that.

"With today's decision, and because of the political makeup of the Washington State Supreme Court, which makes it almost impossible to overturn this ruling, I am ending the election contest," Rossi said at his campaign headquarters in Bellevue.

"Waaaaa! You're unfair! You're mean! You're biased! You just don't like me!"

The psychological term is projection.