House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides greet supporters at a Sacramento City Teachers Association phone bank on Wednesday.
PSSST Phil. He's a liberal. His wife is a Kennedy. He's surrounded himself with Democrats. Save your breath. The media are going to give him a pass on scandals from here on out.
This is going to backfire badly on Angelides. Of course at this point he has nothing to lose, since he was already hopelessly behind. But there was already a lot of speculation that the Democratic turnout would be depressed by Angelides' poor performance at the top of the ticket. Now there will be some Democratic voters and many moderates who will be actively disgusted by Angelides' tactics, and that will depress the turnout even more. That increases the chances that downticket Republicans will be elected and that the many bad ballot measures will go down to defeat.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Angelides’ plight and behavior drew scorn from Democrats associated with statewide campaigns that are in trouble and that are free from trouble. But the most scathing public comment came from someone who does not have to deal with the Angelides campaign, Democratic strategist Garry South. The architect of Gray Davis’s two winning gubernatorial campaigns, as well as Steve Westly’s near miss in the June Democratic primary for governor is in full I-told-you-so mode, mincing few words.“Yes, the Angelides campaign and the candidate himself have now gone from merely inept and ineffectual to downright embarrassing and pathetic,” says South. “I can’t imagine knowing Democrats aren’t ashamed that this guy is our nominee for governor of the biggest state — and a deep blue one, at that. . . . His campaign is just abysmal.”