Do WaGOPers realize they're the Washington Generals?

Here's a statement from Washington Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance:

This count is not over. This battle is not over.

Actually, it's both. But I don't want to say it too loudly, since this is more spunk than I've ever seen Evergreen state 'Pubbies display in my lifetime.

Throughout this process we have opposed efforts to change the rules.

And failed thanks to Democrat courts. Which means that you were fools to believe that this process was ever going to be fair, and should have been in the muck cheating away right alongside the Donks.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court did just that yesterday so we are aggressively fighting under those new rules.

Under which you have even less of a prayer of winning than the actual law they re-wrote. Why not take it to the SCOTUS, like the Dems were threatening to? We're sure as hell not going to get a fair shake here.

Today, in counties across the state, Republicans formally requested County Auditors to reconvene canvassing boards in order to reconsider legitimate votes cast for Dino Rossi that were erroneously rejected.

That's what you should have been doing for the past month. It's too late now. Even if Secretary of State Sam Reed waits to certify this felonious result until next week, you'll never be able to gin up 131 additional votes from across the state as efficiently as the Dems did in their King County stronghold.

These voters are no different from voters in King County whose votes were counted today...

Sure they're different - they voted for Rossi. So their votes will never be allowed to be included. It'd violate state election law, doncha know.

...and recanvassing is allowed under Supreme Court’s recent decision until the Secretary of State finally certifies the election.

Only for Democrats. Not Republicans. In fact, if Republicans had been mining votes right alongside the Donks, I have no doubt that the latter would have sued to stop them from doing it, while they continued right on doing it themselves. And the courts would have enjoined only the GOP.

Unfortunately, we'll never know now.

In fact, one county, Thurston, has already reopened their process after first certifying their results.

That won't last long.

Several counties have either agreed to hold new canvassing board meetings or are seriously considering doing so.

That won't last long, either.

This activity will continue, and we ask the Secretary of State to delay final certification until we know every legitimate vote has been counted.

Dream on, Mr. Vance. You can't field your third-stringers at the Super Bowl, get your head handed to you, and then ask for an additional quarter at the two-minute warning on the grounds that you forgot at which hotel your first-stringers were staying.

You trusted in the system and the rule of law in a one-party state that has long since subverted both. You should have known better, Senator Rossi should have known better, and now it's come back and bitten you in the ass.

We believe Dino Rossi is the legitimate Governor-elect of the State of Washington and we will continue fighting to protect his election.

Dino Rossi is the legitimate Governor-elect of the State of Washington. But in Washington, legitimacy is irrelevant; power is all that matters.

And power remains, and ever shall remain, with the ruling Donk hegemony in Olympia, and its new Governor, Christine Gregoire, until such time as the Republican dissidency is willing to do whatever it takes to overthrow them.

And what the past seven weeks have shown is that the Washington GOP is a long, long way from that level of ruthlessness.

Nice try, gents. But as I said from the start, "Get ready for Governor Gregoire."