Jerry Brown: Meg Whitman is like Goebbels for having political ambitions, or something

Hotair ^ | 06/11/2010 | Ed Morrissey

[a fool in paradise]

"...by the time she’s done with me, two months from now, I’ll be a child-molesting…” He let the line trail off. “She’ll have people believing whatever she wants about me. It’s like Goebbels. Goebbels invented this kind of propaganda."

Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black. He's slurring her name and fabricating charges she has not even alleged yet.

[a fool in paradise]

Brown is there to appeal to the Pacifica/NPR/granola crowd. The people who think Obama governs too much to the Right.

[massgopguy]

He’s ranting like a guest star on Star Trek. Just before McCoy gives him “a shot”.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black. He's slurring her name and fabricating charges she has not even alleged yet.

He's been around politics awhile. Fair to say he has been watching.

[GSWarrior]

I am certain I saw Brown out jogging around Lake Merritt in Oakland recently when I was out running. He’s in pretty good shape for an old geezer.

[Niteranger68]

There are a whole lot of people in CA who deserve to be ruled by Jerry Brown.

[gunsequalfreedom]

I said it was a bad example. That does not change what he actually said.

As for giving as good as we get, the Republicans have been weak in that department. You will get no argument out of me on that.

But, I believe this constant mud throwing is driving people away from the political process. Time to break out of that rut and start articulating a position.

Both Brown and Whitman can start by detailing their positions on border control and how they will deal with 12 million plus illegals in this country.

Wouldn't you rather hear that than just sound bite attacks by the candidates? To me, that sounds like infinitely more useful information.

[gunsequalfreedom]

He’s ranting like a guest star on Star Trek. Just before McCoy gives him “a shot”.

The "Moonbeam" and Star Trek characterization attacks are childish, school yard level debate. The party needs to articulate how Brown's policies will be bad for California.

Please don't misunderstand this as an assault on you. Please take it as a call to raise the level of debate. These are very serious times and we need candidates positions in dealing with them.

Both Brown and Whitman have said they will fix it. How?

[dangus]

>> “You know, by the time she’s done with me, two months from now, I’ll be a child-molesting” He let the line trail off. <<

No, he finished it. The author just misunderstood what he said, which was: “I’ll be a-child-molesting.”

[brownsfan]

“Time to break out of that rut and start articulating a position.”

We agree there.

That’s the another place where the current crop of Republicans have been weak. I believe many of them are content to ride into November being the party of “NO”. They’d do much better if they’d unapologetically state what they are FOR.

I want it all. I want Republicans not to back down from attacks. I want them to quit capitulating to the commies in the State Run Media in hopes it will get them favorable coverage, (it won’t). And I want Republicans to state their positions, and solutions, firmly and clearly.

It’s not too much to ask.

[dangus]

>> “You know, by the time she’s done with me, two months from now, I’ll be a child-molesting” He let the line trail off. <<

No, he finished it. The author just misunderstood what he said, which was: “I’ll be a-child-molesting.”

(Hey, the guy was actually a worshipper of Jim Jones, the satanic Stalinist who killed hundreds of people.)

[gunsequalfreedom]

Everyone is starved for the Republicans to actually stand for something other than just holding power.

[gwilhelm56]

With this Governor's Race, I kinda want to feel sorry for the people of California,...

At the same time... GOVERNOR MOONBEAM is going to make Joe Byden look like a GENIUS!

(firing up the popcorn popper)

[Bernard Marx]

It’s obvious brown was yanked from an asylum somewhere to run

Yes, I'd call Oakland an asylum. He's been running for Gov./ President ever since he ran for Oakland Mayor and Attorney General. He's not coming out of nowhere.

[buwaya]

Well, the Linda Ronstadt thing was the best thing about Jerry Brown. The young Linda was something indeed.

He was also probably the best mayor Oakland could have elected. The previous one and the current one are both disasters. There are much worse politicians than Jerry Brown.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I’ve got a question for you California and older FREEPers: has that leach Jerry Brown EVER done anything in the private sector? Ever since I can remember, he has been sucking off the TEAT of the taxpayer.

[Deb]

I heard that Brown was a pretty good mayor, like you said. Pot holes and trash pick-up are the perfect challenges for someone with his skills.

[cubreporter]

dufus

[SeekAndFind]

You might already know this, but this is for those on this thread who don’t.... WHY DID JERRY BROWN GET THE MONICKER — Mr. Moonbeam ?

Well, as governor in the 70’s , Brown proposed the establishment of a state space academy and the purchasing of a satellite that would be launched into orbit to provide emergency communications for the state — a proposal similar to one that would indeed eventually be adopted by the state.

In 1978 in a Rolling Stone interview Linda Ronstadt called her then boyfriend, Jerry Brown, her “Little Moonbeam”.

After this an out-of-state columnist, Mike Royko, then at the Chicago Sun-Times, nicknamed Brown “Governor Moonbeam” because of the latter idea.

The name stuck.

See here :

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07mckinley.html

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know about Linda's 'little moonbeam'.

But I sure remember Mike Royko! He was always a breath of fresh air in the Op-Ed section. Mike was one of the writers who turned me toward Conservatism. And his calling JB 'Governor Moonbeam' was so deadly accurate that it stuck to him like glue.