Repetition is the mother of talking points (I)

On top of the "voting" results, there are some interesting textual responses to the VOCM Question of the Day:

Date: 4/22/2009
Name: eastender
Comments: what would an investigation tell us that we dont already know...the guy there has been re-elected twice since this happened... waste of time and money

Date: 4/22/2009
Name: puzzled
Comments: i have two questions for those who voted yes to this question. did ed byrne admit that he did give that person money? secondly, hasn''t that same mha been re-elected twice since that by-election? what would an inquiry achieve? other than waste money and give the liberals another topic to rant about? if, the answer to those two questions were no, then an inquiry would definately be necessary.

Date: 4/22/2009
Name: lover of politics
Comments: perhaps if that by-election had had a direct result on the current make-up of the house, but there have been two general elections since, and mr. wally young was re-elected both times. chances are, during the 2 huge influxes of pc members during the past two general election, mr. young would have been re-elected even if he hadn''t been successful in the by-election in 2001.

Date: 4/22/2009
Name: eeb
Comments: i said no because there has already been elections held since 2001 - so what is it going to prove. if the area wanted to elect someone other than the current elected official - they would have done so in the last election. stop wanting to waste money people and start putting it somewhere useful.

Where have we heard that argument before?

Oh, right: from the former President of the PC Party.