I am not trying to pick on former Congressman and ersatz United States Senator Tom Campbell, but he is the first candidate for a Republican nomination for statewide office to send out an e-mail touting the endorsement of a newspaper editorial board for his candidacy. In this case, the San Jose Mercury news published an editorial, Campbell is the best GOP candidate for U.S. Senate.
To all Republican voters, I would say, without any hesitation: you should be very cautious if not downright skeptical of candidates who are endorsed by main stream media newspaper editorial boards. The reason for this is that with rare exceptions (a shout-out to the O.C. Register and the San Diego U.T.), these editorial boards are packed with liberals who probably feel that the People’s Park in Berkeley should be the state’s political epicenter.
Every election cycle, these Editorial Board members who I’m sure overwhelmingly vote for whatever liberal is on their general election ballot (be it a Democrat, or maybe their local Green Party nominee) put their newspapers on record supporting Democrats in general elections almost every time (usually delightfully bashing the GOP opponent in each race in the process).
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April 13th, 2010 at 12:00 am
No worry….the electorate reads Fantastic Four and Wolverine mags.
April 13th, 2010 at 12:00 am
I’m only voting for Campbell because in CA DeVore has no chance. Sure he;d get close but he won’t win.
Fiorina or Campbell has me leaning slightly Tom. It’s all about getting to 51 in the senate and I think Campbell is the best shot!
And Robert I am a very big comic book fan as well as a libertarian Republican.
April 13th, 2010 at 12:00 am
There you go again, Jon, off the rails to the far far far right. If the Republican candidate who wins the primary is the mainstream candidate, he or she would get the endorsement of the mainstream newspapers. But no, you and your far right wing friends will never back a mainstream Republican candidate – you will run a straw candidate against him or her and split the vote so the Democrat will win and then you’ll say “the voters deserve who they get because they won’t vote for our far right wing unelectable candidates.” So don’t cry wolf, Jon. Just keep running the far right wing social issue “correct” candidates and give the election to the Democrats – and continue to watch your taxes skyrocket and the state continue to sink.
April 13th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Bob,
Who was the more “mainstream” or “moderate” candidate in 2008, John McCain or Barack Obama. I would argue it was McCain. Even though he didn’t win due to the tarnished Bush years and Republican party image, he was much closer to the center than Obama. Yet almost exclusively MSM papers endorsed Obama.
April 13th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Andy, Mr. McCain was seen as four more years of the Bush presidency. Mr. Obama was seen to embody “hope and change.” Of course, his campaign artfully hid the pea on just what change his administration had in mind, but it’s hard to run against hope.