The editors at the biggest newspaper on the West Coast, who were expected to endorse Sen. Barbara Boxer in her primary campaign against token opposition, have decided to remain neutral, saying the California Democrat doesn't display enough intellectual firepower.Don't kid yourself - the Times will endorse Barbara "Dumb-as-a-Box-of-Rocks" Boxer should she win the nomination. They won't be able to help themselves.
The Los Angeles Times on Friday declined to offer endorsements in all Democratic and Republican primaries for governor and Senate, saying the races have been undermined by politics and money.
But the newspaper's decision to sit on the sidelines for the Boxer race could prove to be the most damaging of all, given the newspaper's criticism of the three-term senator.
"On the Democratic side, we find that we're no fans of incumbent Barbara Boxer," the newspaper said in an editorial Friday. "She displays less intellectual firepower or leadership than she could."
The newspaper said Boxer's opponent, Robert "Mickey" Kaus, was not a "realistic contender," but ir praised him for asking "pertinent questions about Boxer's 'lockstep liberalism' on labor, immigration and other matters."
"But we can't endorse him, because he gives no indication that he would step up to the job and away from his Democratic-gadfly persona," the newspaper said.
The Times left the door open for an endorsement in the general election.
Mickey Kaus is one Democrat I could almost vote for. Note the word "almost". He's been a tough critic of knee-jerk liberalism and he'd be an entertaining Senator. However, he probably won't survive the primary.
On the GOP side Sarah Palin made news yesterday when she endorsed the most liberal of the three candidates running for the GOP nomination. I'm not sure what she was thinking when she went with Carly Fiorina. Both Tom Campbell and especially Chuck DeVore are more conservative than Fiorina and would have given voters a much greater contrast with the ultra-liberal Boxer. I could understand why she endorsed RINO John McCain, but this one is a mystery.
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My first reaction is to wonder if Palin endorsed the more liberal GOP candidate as a strategy for the general election. Can a conservative win in California? (I mean that as a genuine and not a rhetorical question. Sitting here in Maryland, I have no idea what the possibilities really are in a general election on the holy coast.)
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