[NormsRevenge]

Well, well..

Just win, Baby! Don't sweat the details!

[American Quilter]

But unlike his eclectic – critics would say “schizophrenic” – Capitol staff, where the dominant figure is a longtime Democratic activist, senior members of the Republican governor's new campaign team have solid Republican pedigrees.

Just a semantic nitpick here: schizophrenia has nothing to do with split or multiple personalities, as implied above. It's a physical disease of the brain that results (in the paranoid and grandiose forms) in aural and/or visual hallucinations accompanied by delusions.

It's a tragic illness, but not related to multiple personality disorder.

[Cicero]

“It is curious to me why you would bring into California two guys who have been back there in D.C. sitting on (senior Bush adviser) Karl Rove's lap for five years,” said Westly strategist Garry South. “Rove might be a brilliant national strategist, but he's been an absolute ignoramus when it comes to dealing with California.”

You can say that again. Rove stepped into California to straighten out the Republican party, and instead he has pretty well succeeded in killing it. His idea of what's good for California includes nothing but losers: Richard Riordan, Gerald Parsky, Arnold Schwartzenneger.

You can't just keep walking all over the locals unless you succeed pretty quickly in building a successful organization. I would hardly describe what has been going on in California as anything but extremely dysfunctional. By the time they are through, they will have managed to make Gray Davis look good.

[calcowgirl]

But unlike his eclectic – critics would say “schizophrenic” – Capitol staff, where the dominant figure is a longtime Democratic activist, senior members of the Republican governor's new campaign team have solid Republican pedigrees. ...

Dowd... A former Democrat, Dowd switched parties when he worked for Bush's 1998 re-election campaign as governor of Texas.

Solid Republican pedigree? He worked on the Clinton campaign under the direction of Susan Kennedy!

Regardless of who he puts on his campaign, I'd rather see more real "Republican pedigrees" working on his staff.