California GOP Breaking Reagan “Commandment”

Ronald Reagan’s hard-and-fast rule was ‘thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican,’” Now former California Governor Pete Wilson has broken that 11^th Commandment ripping into Senator Tom McClintock and picking scabs off of some of the very worst scandals in recent political history. Wilson says in a letter mailed on behalf of GOP player Doug Ose, McClintock’s rival “As governor, I could never count on Tom McClintock.”… “He was always first to criticize, but the last to help the team. His record doesn’t match his rhetoric.”

Term limited uber conservative California Senator McClintock ran for Governor among over 130 others during the circus-like recall elections of then Governor Gray Davis and placed right behind winner Arnold Schwarzenegger but, also permanently bumped himself out of any serious run for higher office in California. So, McClintock - whose current seat is in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties - is “carpet bagging” to the far north to run for Congress in the north east corner of the state in what has turned into a real dust-up as Wilson’s letter reflects.

The 4^th District is one of the most conservative in all of ultra liberal California with Republicans holding a 5 to 3 margin in registered voters. The seat was help by Republican John Doolittle since 1991. He was Doolittle was a member of the group known as the Gang of Seven, which had a role in exposing the House banking scandal. Mormon Doolittle became entangled in the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal and his wife’s commissioned fund raising involvement and various lobbying issues. brought him down and he is not running for reelection opening the seat and current brouhaha.