The Best They Can Do?

Cruz Bustamante, California's current Lieutenant Governor, declared his candidacy in the California Recallapalooza yesterday.

I almost drove off the road when I read what he'd said shortly after putting the last twist on the knife in Gray Davis' back.

California is verging on bankruptcy. Taxes are skyrocketing, the deficit is ballooning, the power situation is still tenuous (and that's not Enron's fault, and never was), and business is fleeing Cali like a strip club where Barbara Carlson has decided to make a guest appearance. So what is Bustamante running on?

According to Bustamante:

"people should vote for him “if you care about fair admissions to college education, if you care about protecting the coast, if you care about living wages, if you care about protecting privacy from those who would sell it for profit, if you think it ought to be a woman’s right to chose.”

And here we have further proof of the theorem that, in any given election, the credible candidate that is farthest to the right will inevitably be labeled the "right wing extremist". We saw it in Minnesota, where the socially moderate Tim Pawlenty was branded a "right wing extremist" (to no electoral avail).

Will we see it in California, against the pro-"choice", pro-gun-control, pro-gay-marriage Schwartzenegger?

What did Bustamante call Schwartzenegger during this speech?

An "Extremist".

Watch for this in the national and Cali media.