thistlechaser: (Obama/Biden)
thistlechaser ([personal profile] thistlechaser) wrote2010-09-12 06:35 pm

Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

I swear, the race for California governor is getting stranger and stranger.

So for those who don't recall, Meg Whitman has so far spent $104 MILLION DOLLARS of her own money on her campaign. This is a woman who has never held office of any sort before. Who has not even voted in decades. But she thinks she can be governor.

Amusingly, Jerry Brown, who has spent almost nothing on ads yet, is currently in a tie with her.

But that's not the point of this post! Whitman, who is a Republican, is using Bill Clinton in her ads. I mean, WTF. Didn't the Republicans hate him endlessly? What the heck is she doing featuring 30 seconds (of him attacking Brown) in her ads!

I suppose she's being sneaky. I suppose she's trying to get Dems who like Clinton on her side. Sorry, lady, we're a hell of a lot smarter than that.

[identity profile] peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com 2010-09-13 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry, lady, we're a hell of a lot smarter than that.

Thistle, your faith in humanity is showing again!

[identity profile] doxxxicle.livejournal.com 2010-09-13 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
American politics are one of the strangest things on this planet.

[identity profile] quistie.livejournal.com 2010-09-15 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
Well...apparently Jerry Brown and Bill Clinton did not always see eye to eye, and Brown actually took a shot at Clinton recently. I suppose Whitman is just trying to take advantage of the situation.

A bit underhanded, I think. On the other hand, I have no idea what Brown was thinking. Why would you take a shot now...over a decade later? That seems rather immature at the very least.