Bernstein Endorses No Endorsement by the Polytechnic

I have decided not to endorse the Poly's lack of an endorsement for GM. Rumor has it the staff of the Poly has a bone to pick with Max Yates, and that he could come up with a plan to eliminate AIDS and communism and still their illustrious editorial board would only give him the endorsement half-heartedly. Reports of prejudice aside, the Poly editors were, without a doubt, off their medications when they wrote their abortion of an analysis for the GM race. In what appeared to be a condemnation of Yates:

He said multiple times that the important jobs would go to those best-suited for the position, and these might not necessarily be senators. Given that the student body has selected these senators to serve them and meet their needs, they should have a well-defined role in the process.

And then, later, the Poly discounts Robert Otlowski as lacking "significant experience in the Senate," about which they'd said only one paragraph (or half a crayon, if you're reading the original manuscript) earlier:

Yates has a firm grip on student government as a whole, and has a defined stance on where he feels this year's Senate has failed.

[emphasis mine]

Yates had the common sense and the courage to point out that the student government as it stands isn't working--as the editorial board obviously agreed--and yet they're sizing him up for a Hitler moustache as an enemy of democracy. While the plan Yates puts forth on his website seems to be pecking at the periphery of the problems with Student Government, it is Yates' simple acknowledgement that RPI student senators are not reincarnations of the Continental Congress that warrants consideration to vote for him. I still take issue with the lack of a stance against the tuition hike, by either candidate, but seeing Yates stand up to the worthless resume whores in the Student Senate gives me goosebumps. If only he had firing power over the Poly editors...

I should also take this time to point out that I was kidding about making endorsements when I posted the possibility last week. I, will however, be explaining what's right and wrong in the PU endorsement, once I find enough Tylenol.