The Schwarzenegger campaign insists they have no preference on which Democratic candidate for govenor ends up as their opponent. In truth, they’ll probably be able to run pretty much the same campaign against either Phil Angelides or Steve Westly.
But running against Angelides would be so much more fun.
Today’s Sacramento Bee reports on the anti-Arnold’s visit to an African-American congregation in East Oakland, where he promised the attendees that "wants to create a California ‘where the governor stands side by side with people like Barbara Lee, whether it’s the genocide in Darfur or the horrible war in Iraq."
Putting aside for a moment the lack of foreign policy decision-making in a governor’s portfolio, Angelides just promised the people of the state that he "stands side by side" with the only member of the House of Representatives who, on September 15, 2001, voted against authorizing the use of military force against those responsible for the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon four days earlier.
I don’t know of anyone who’s in favor of the horrors taking place in Darfur. There aren’t many California Democrats who still support the war in Iraq. But promising to stand with the only member of Congress who opposed the use of force against the 9-11 terrorists is the type of statement that is not going to appeal to a whole lot of swing voters this fall.
(The Bee story is here.)