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2010-04-10 Home Front: WoT

Muslim Brotherhood Working to Influence Republican Party

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Posted by 2010-04-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 Thomas J. "Tom" Campbell (born August 14, 1952) is a former congressman from California's 12th and 15th districts, a former professor at Stanford Law School, the former dean of the Haas School of Business, and a former professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently serving as a visiting professor at the Chapman University School of Law. He served as the Director of Finance for the State of California in 2004 and 2005, and he previously served five nonconsecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican. He is currently running for the Class 3 Senate Seat held by Barbara Boxer, attempting to represent the Republican Party in the November 2010 election.

Egghead progressive professor? Islamic sympathies? California Director of Finance (not a howling success). Running against Barbara Boxer. Is there not a better candidate to run against Boxer? Seems like California is trading a pain-in-arse for a headache.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-10 10:41|| 2010-04-10 10:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Is there not a better candidate to run against Boxer?

Unfortunately, the best that California Republicans (a vanishing breed - I used to be one until my wife and I fled the state about 12 years ago) can come up with is either Campbell, a proven failure as a public official, or Carly Fiorina, a proven failure as a business executive. I can't remember which veteran Rantburger it was - but one of the Burg's old regulars had a REALLY adverse reaction to news that McCain was thinking of making Carly his VP pick. This 'Burger, an ex-HP employee and a firm conservative, stated flatly that if Carly was McCain's choice, he would march down to his local Obama campaign office the next morning and sign up a a volunteer.

On the bright side, Mickey Kaus has filed to run against Boxer in the Democrats' primary. He's well to my left politically, but he's not clinically insane about it. If he won (yeah, I know it's a long shot), I'd feel a little better about finally seeing a Dem Senator who's neither a machine crook nor a shrieking Marxist moonbat.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-04-10 13:24|| 2010-04-10 13:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Is there not a better candidate to run against Boxer?

Not really. Unlike the Democrats, the CA GOP doesn't have a deep bench of potential candidates, and is rather limited to certain parts of the state. It also doesn't help that they're run by an ineffective leadership that values name recognition and go-along-to-get-along.

Posted by Pappy 2010-04-10 18:32|| 2010-04-10 18:32|| Front Page Top

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