He’s Still Got It
by digby
Those of you who don’t live in California have been spared the year long assault by Meg Whitman’s ads so you can’t know how relieved we are all going to be when we don’t have to see her on TV constantly. (Even if she gets elected we’ll see much less of her over the whole course of the next four years than we have over the last.) We waited and waited for Jerry Brown to engage and basically he simply allowed her to wear out her welcome with the public. It seems to have worked.
But he’s been doing some good ads in the final stretch and he’s ahead in the polls so you have to give the old veteran some credit for knowing what he’s doing. (And he can certainly make the argument that he’s more responsible with money considering how much less he’s spent on his campaign.)
Whitman’s latest ad is all about how she and her husband came to California when it was still the Golden State and how she wants to return it to the way it was. And Brown’s come up with a great response:
You’d think they would have seen that coming.
Brown’s become much more conservative over the years and I feel quite confident that his administration is going to be disappointing in many ways. But he’s better than Whitman by a mile and he knows something about traversing this unworkable system, so maybe he can do something around the margins.
I cast my very first vote for Jerry Brown for governor. (I sure hope this coming one isn’t my last!)
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