A quote from the video: “Meg Whitman. She stops at nothing. She’s even got Clinton lying about me. That’s right.” Note the tense, there… and, yes, that’s what Brown really said. And a little while later he went on to mock Bill Clinton by saying “I did not have taxes with that state.”
I assume that Brown wants to win the California gubernatorial election, yes? The one in 2010?
The background for this is what Mark Halperin calls “the best TV spot by any campaign all cycle:” Meg found some footage of then-Governor Clinton calling into question then-Governor Brown’s assertion that he lowered taxes*.
This was apparently enough to put Brown over the edge into – and I do not make this statement lightly – incoherency. I keep coming back to that assertion of Brown’s that Meg Whitman is apparently conniving with Bill Clinton right now to bring Brown down. Is this senility? Paranoia? Heck, is it even perhaps true?… which in some ways would be the most powerful indictment of Moonbeam Brown’s fitness to run, right there. It’s endlessly fascinating to contemplate.
Moe Lane
PS: Meg Whitman for Governor. Because this is Earth.
*If you’re wondering and you care, Brown has a little wriggle room on that particular issue. Alas, Brown has managed a cure worse than the disease.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Monday, September 13th at 3:06PM EDT (link)Brown has hated Bill since about midway through the ’92 Dem Primaires. He knew Bill had him whipped and he got totally unhinged (as opposed to his usual state!)
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
That's what makes this ad so great
Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Monday, September 13th at 3:19PM EDT (link)it hit Brown with a pointy enough stick to make him do something stupid.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
You need to retitle this article, Moe
civil truth (Diary) Monday, September 13th at 3:11PM EDT (link)…to Moonbeam Brown (D-CAND, LUNA-GOV)
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
See : 'Gift that gives continuously'
Gmac Monday, September 13th at 3:24PM EDT (link)when it comes to Jerry Brown and impolitic statements.
I believe it was a failed attempt at sarcasm, not that it couldn’t have happened to one of the loonier left coast leaders at a better time. Talk about shooting holes in the bottom of your boat, there went any help he could have gotten from one of the few Democrats not totally stained by this regime.
I love to watch Moonbeam
luciusacius (Diary) Monday, September 13th at 3:35PM EDT (link)He is so hilarious. Only in my former native state of California can this guy get taken seriously. And that iss a strech these days. Here we have bill Clinton, for once, telling the truth and Brown gives this film clip enough juice to go viral. Meg Whitman leading …great, Bill Clinton telling the truth,…. fabulous, Jerry Brown, doing what he does best,….priceless?
Lucius Accius
“oderint dum metuant”
Talk about living up to one's nickname. nt
TNJim (Diary) Monday, September 13th at 3:58PM EDT (link)So now Whitman has 2 ads: the original with
throwback59 Monday, September 13th at 4:17PM EDT (link)Clinton and Brown’s response.
Jerry better be careful; the horse’s a** may wake up with a horse’s head in his bed.
Yep - Whitman Has Been Using Old Slick Willie Footage To Bludgeon Brown For a While Now (nt)
IJB Monday, September 13th at 5:54PM EDT (link)the boy is still "out there" somewhere
Adjoran (Diary) Monday, September 13th at 4:41PM EDT (link)Back in the day, when California hippies ran low on pot, they would smoke Brown’s fingernail clippings.
Of course nowadays they just get a Weed Card: http://tinyurl.com/nbwfoe