As Queen Meg tries to buy California's Governor Mansion, Democrats cringe at her effectiveness.
It's remarkable when in a single commercial break of a TV show, you see the same political ad for the same candidate four times.
It's remarkable that a Republican woman with absolutely no political experience and a voting record worse than the average apathetic voter is ahead in arguably the most liberal state in the Union.
It's remarkable. It's unprecedented. And yet it's happening.
California Democrats, much like national Democrats, are angry at the ineffectiveness of this Congress. While Dems passed landmark legislation, they tried to compromise too much on issues that deserved no compromise. Democrats started at the left, Republicans were adamantly at the right. Democrats moved to the middle, Republicans stayed at the right. Democrats then stayed in the middle and reflected the failures of being moderate--watered down policies and ultimate ineffectiveness.
But even if that is so, even if they wasted two years of supermajorities, Democrats are far better than Republicans and that alone should be enough reason and motivation to re-elect a Democratic Congress.
When it comes to running for Governor in California, one can only do so much to fix the broken state. We can choose someone that has no political experience and made her corporation's product less profitable for consumers or we can choose a man with decades of political experience, dedicated with proven results.
We've tried political outsiders before-we're trying it now, and it's failing. California can't have another failure as its Governor--we need a revolutionary leader that can turn the state around. And when a voter looks at the statistics, he or she will likely see the choice that needs to be made--but voters don't look at the stats, they look at the ads.
Voters don't go to rallies, they go to their living rooms and watch the TV, where the true political battleground is.
Whitman, without her ads, would not be ahead. Her ads are consistently negative, but they are so abundant and believable to the naked eye that they are effective. Putting $104 million into a campaign is ridiculous and shameful--but unless exposed, it's effective. Some even believe that it's a positive thing. My conservative uncle believes that it displays her "dedication" to serve the people of this state.
That's pretty effective and it's hitting the airways 10 times every hour per channel starting tomorrow. Using the most beloved Democrat in the nation to attack the Democratic candidate is clever--makes the base question their candidate and turns left-leaning Independents off.
Almost every ad that she airs is negative.
Selling fear over hope has failed in the past few elections, but this year it may just work. We have to do our best to make sure that it continues to fail and that the light of our vision drives out the darkness of "theirs'".
Meg Whitman. We don't want you.
We don't want your inexcusable and unrealistic views on global warming.
We don't want all environmental regulation to be removed on the first day of your term, as you promised to big business.
We don't want the legislature to turn into a "part-time" legislature, and we don't want someone who thinks she has the power to do that.
We don't want four more years of failed Republican policies.
I don't want your signature on my high school diploma.
California doesn't want you, but I'm afraid it might vote for you.
We have fifty-plus days to turn this around, and we need to get energized. We need to get out there and do what we did in 2008. We can do it. We must.