The Best Result Possible

When bridge players compete, the wise ones have a maxim:  "Get the best result possible - not the best possible result."

Sometimes achieving perfection simply isn't "in the cards."  You "know" what is the ideal result.  Yet, under the circumstances, it cannot be attained.  When that occurs, one should not stomp off in a fit - or earn something crummy because you can't get what you know is best.  What you ought to do is gain what the finest solution at that moment.  Too many bridge players - including this one - sometimes fall from grace.

This maxim applies to most in life - including politics.  When I read this column at Hot Air, I realized immediately that "The Lombardi Rule" was another expression of "The best result possible":

We have heard so much about the supposed Buckley Rule, which Charles Krauthammer and other Mike Castle supporters over-simplistically synthesized as follows:

“Support the most conservative candidate who is electable.”

The Buckley Rule is for primaries.  The Delaware primary is over.  To paraphrase Krauthammer, Castle supporters didn’t go to Delaware and make it happen.

The choice now is between Christine O’Donnell and Chris Coons.

Was Castle the best possible choice?  Maybe.  I honestly have not followed this race anywhere as closely as others.  All I know now is, Castle vs Coons is not an option.  Gone; finis.  For those in Delaware, their choice is O'Donnell vs Coons, plain and simple. 

When conservative and libertarian bloggers comment, returning to "what might have been" serves no practical purpose.  What matters is weighing the "O'Donnell vs Coons" choice, and judging of those two candidates, who will be the superior.  When they go to the voting booth, wishing that Castle was on the ballot serves no purpose than frustration and aggravation.  He won't be; O'Donnell will.

This is what people must contemplate:

Now that the primary is over, so too is the Buckley Rule.  Please take notice that the Lombardi Rule is in effect:

“The object is to win fairly, by the rules – but to win.”

So [names of conservative blogs and pundits still dumping on O'Donnell deleted], get over it and get to work defeating Democratic rubber-stamp hack Chris Coons.

Because, as Hillyer says, “[w]e are fighting for our country here.”

And winning that fight in November is all that matters.

Decide what is the best result possible - and go for it.

Comments

[Wadingacross.wordpress.com]

I prefer another option: http://wadingacross.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/strategery-or-principle-can-there-be-a-balance/

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