A Fight

6:09 pm EST September 16th, 2005 | Politics | 5 Comments

Very nice response from the camp of Phil Angelides, Democratic nominee for the California governorship tied to Ahnuld’s announcement of his plans to run for re-election today:

“Instead of moving California forward, Governor Schwarzenegger has used nurses and teachers as partisan punching bags, in a haze of fake slogans and fierce division. Instead of bringing people together, he has forced a costly and wasteful special election to bring the Bush agenda to California.

“What I find most troubling is that this Governor seems to view his Governorship as another one of those action movies he used to make: some snappy insults, some flashy camera angles, a budget that s totally out of control, but with a plot that fails to deliver. We need a Governor who will stand up for the people of this state, not just pose for publicity photos; we need a Governor who has a clear plan to lift up the hopes of Californians, not just some glib one-liners to put his adversaries down.

“That is why I stood up to Governor Schwarzenegger from his first day in office, even when others wouldn t; even when his approval ratings were as big as his box office receipts. Perhaps that is why I ve been called the “anti-Arnold.”

“I ll leave the phrase-making to others. But this much I know: a contest between Arnold Schwarzenegger and me would offer Californians the clearest choice in a generation — a choice between four more years of the Bush-Schwarzenegger agenda, and a common-sense approach that embraces fairness, opportunity and investment in California s future.

It will be interesting if blue state Democrats, like here in Maryland, run against their opponents by stressing their ties to the unpopular Republican president.

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5 Responses to “A Fight”

  1. dugger1 says:
    September 17, 2005 at 7:09 am

    It will also be interesting to see how individual Democratic candidayes hash it out between the two factions warring for the Democratic Party’s soul: the radical left as epitomized by Dean, bloggers (here, KOS, etc) and the DLC side. One thing to say anything and be constantly, wildly negative on the Internet, another to take that message into the homes of actual working adults. No Democrat will win running a “hate Bush” or ‘surrender in Iraq’ campaign. There must be a coherent, sane message that resonates with the majority.

    Dugger

  2. Mouse says:
    September 17, 2005 at 9:09 am

    It’s not about hate Dugger, it’s about contempt for bungling and incompetence.

  3. dugger1 says:
    September 17, 2005 at 4:09 pm

    Mouse,

    Not really. Your contempt is reserved for what you perceive as Republican only bungling. Perhaps you can tell who on the left on this site has called for Nagins and Blanco to resign. But I’ll go even further: no Democrat will win running aAGAINST Bush – rather than FOR something. And that for something will fail if its tax increase or not being aggressive on the WOT.

    Dugger

  4. SadieB says:
    September 18, 2005 at 11:09 am

    I think Oliver is right and we will be seeing a lot more of this.

    It reminds me of the time my dad’s dog killed one of his chickens. The remedy for this was to tie the dead chicken around the dog’s neck and leave it there for days as it rotted and fell apart.

    After a while the dog had such an aversion to this rotting, flapping thing that was tied to him, he couldn’t stand to go near another chicken, dead or alive, for the rest of his life.

    For the American voter, Bush is now that chicken.

  5. Frank_D says:
    September 20, 2005 at 11:09 am

    SadieB: I don’t think PETA could think very highly of your Dad.