We Need More Jerry Browns. He's Showing Democrats How They Should Be Running for Office.

[David Zephyr]

If we had more candidates like Jerry Brown, we'd own the mid-terms.

Jerry Brown did not throw Latinos or minorities under the bus to gain favor with whites.

Jerry Brown did not shy away from standing with LBGT Californians on marriage and, as Attorney General he flatly refused to defend Prop 8 while running for election.

Jerry Brown did not run away from his environmental record, his past, who he was or is.

Jerry Brown still claims he is opposed to the death penalty in the middle of the friggin' election.

Jerry Brown, a Catholic, did not run away from his long support of women's right to choose. Or pretend he was troubled by it.

Jerry Brown stood proudly with unions! Proudly!

I could go on and on, but the point is, he did not run away from being a progressive Democrat.

And because HE STANDS FOR SOMETHING, he is going to have a landslide victory even though nearly 1/4 Billion Dollars was spent against him (more than George Bush's 2 presidential campaigns and in one single state).

Jerry is not a coward. Jerry Brown is a fighter.

And Americans respect that.

There's a lesson there for Democrats who run from being Democrats: when you do it, you lose.

And if you are a liberal, then be proud of it, stand up for it...and you win!

We need more Jerry Browns!

[county worker]

1. This is CA. Jerry was our Governor, a mayor and AG.

It's not like we didn't know him. It's Meg we didn't know.

[Journeyman]

9. And when the product's inferior, no amount of advertising or money will sell it. . .

You'd think that's the least Ms Whitman would have brought away from her experience at Ebay. . .

[dsc]

10. not entirely true

remember pet rocks for instance.

[Journeyman]

12. Well, the rocks were dense, but the packaging was quite clever. . .

kind of like Whitman (sans the clever packaging).

[JuniperLea]

38. Yep...

Everything about them was clever.

[ProudDad]

47. You mean george w bush? (n/t)

[JI7]

2. Kendrick Meek is the same , but FLorida is not as liberal

sometimes what works in one place wont work so well in another.

but where Dems can learn from Jerry Brown is the kick ass ads . he had far less resources than Whitman who has unlimited. but the quality of Brown's ads were WAYYYYY better than anything.

[jeff47]

32. Meek's issue

Is the 3-way race.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Hear hear!!

[tridim]

5. Brown is just all kinds of awesome. I really like him.

He reminds me of Larry David, they could be brothers. :)

[David Zephyr]

14. Great photo in your sig line.

:)

[Johonny]

4. He ran some ads about things his opponent said and believes

Now some ( J Stew) seem to think that's negative campaigning. As I if you can't tell people things actually said, done and campaigned on by your opponent and contrast those to your believes. For those people I don't understand what people are suppose to run on.

[givemebackmycountry]

6. Rachel, is that you?

You did it at least as well as she did last week.

That's a great post.

:toast: :hi: :toast:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. Sure. He's been running for office for 1,752,873 years! Why wouldn't he know how to run?

:lol::lol:

At any rate, he done good. Real good!! :toast:

[dsc]

8. He ran a nearly flawless campaign

but so did, for instance, Russ Feingold. He does have the good fortune of Arnold being governor now and unpopular vs the disaster Feingold is fighting in Wisconsin. In addition, his campaign has probably helped save Boxer which is also nice. I am glad Brown is winning. I worry about my state House and Senate here but at least our statewide offices aren't up until 2012 when Obama will be on the ballot again.

[laughingliberal]

11. K & R nt

[blue sky at night]

13. i live in OHIO...

if you stand up as a liberal you are beaten by 17 points....i hate to say it folks, but suddenly tonight after listening to Rhandi and reading posts here and on Huffpo, it is hitting me like a ton of bricks, we are fucked. even if the dems do keep the house and senate, there is no hope whatsoever for the future unless we overturn the citizens united decision.

a quote from a poster on huffpo:


I find it astonishing that two of the states hit hardest by the Bush Depression, Michigan & Ohio, are polling in a big way for Republicans. It just goes to show how ill-informed the US electorate has become. A population this ignorant cannot lay claim to the tradition of government by the people, of the people and for the people. We have become a nation of angry and bewildered idiots; spoon-fed an endless sewage of lies and hate speech by millionaire "populists" shouting from corporate-owned radio and tv stations.
It's very sad to watch the final slide of our republic into an oligarchy, where the obscenely rich get ALL the wealth and power while everyone else is a slave, living on starvation wages or no wages at all.
The Great American Experiment has come to its end. The bad guys have finally won. We held them off for awhile with Teddy Roosevelt & FDR... but in the end, after they took over the Supreme Court which interfered in a state vote recount during the 2000 presidential election, installing a Halliburton CEO and his little puppet as our rulers. As the final nail in the coffin of our once great republic, this radical activist court (with two new far-right corporatist justices, thanks to the previous administration they put in power) overturned a century of firmly established campaign finance law, and gave corporations and fascismo billionaires like the Koch brothers the green light to flood our political system with unlimited extortion and lies.

[lonestarnot]

15. K & R!

[still_one]

16. No way, California isn't Ga or Ohio, or even Pa, it is California, and Jerry would not win in a red

or purple state

[lyonn]

24. True, but, Barbara Boxer is having a tussle

Feiroino(sp?) is dreadful yet a threat??

[kestrel91316]

29. Boxer is 8 points up as of this AM. Fiorina is dead in the water. She

has had to essentially abandon her campaign because she is in the hospital. Boohoo.

[lyonn]

31. Great!

Yesterday the polling was mixed. It is hard to imagine Carly even being a threat - my pessimistic side is showing.

[trud]

42. yeah really

>has had to essentially abandon her campaign because she is in the hospital. Boohoo.

I am a terrible person, so I won't say what I felt when I read that news.

[shanti]

30. no

barbara has pulled away to a nice lead over fiorino.

[jeff47]

34. CA isn't as blue as you think

While CA is socially liberal, they do go for the 'fiscal conservative' thing in the cities, and the rural areas might as well be Arkansas.

[Bluenorthwest]

36. Jerry Brown is a fiscal conservative actually

Socially liberal of course.

[trud]

43. Southern CA is quite red. n/t

[shanti]

65. not so

oc and san diego are, but it's blue everywhere else.

[Radical Activist]

67. He could.

Jerry didn't just decide to run for Governor one day. He has spent a lot of time, money and effort building support over the years. A progressive who works, raises money, and runs a good campaign with the right message can win in other states like OH or PA. Brown is no more liberal than Ohio Senators like Howard Metzenbaum, John Glenn, or even Sherrod Brown. Others like Tom Harkin prove it can be done, but it takes a lot of organizing.

[defendandprotect]

17. Would love to be able to vote for Jerry Brown for president .....

[ProudDad]

41. You almost had a chance

but the Dems' propaganda machine marginalized him in '92...

Their (corporate funded) boy was Bill Clinton...

[JanMichael]

45. I voted for Jerry back then in the primaries...

...and was ridiculed beyond belief in SE Florida for doing so.

Oh well...

[ProudDad]

46. As did I...

but with less ridicule in California...

I believe I voted for him for Mayor the 2nd time too (I wasn't living there when he ran the first time)...

What was REALLY fun was being able to vote for Ron Dellums for Mayor of Oakland a few years ago...

[Warren Stupidity]

49. Me too, and I was happy to do so.

Of course he got clobbered.

[defendandprotect]

64. I know . . . .

I was a delegate for him from NJ --

:)

[Raine]

18. Yes, I'm so PROUD of him

I wasn't sure it was a good idea him running again but he has really taken ole witless on and is in this to win. :thumbsup: I'm thrilled with the way he has gone at it and know he will be a wonderful governor ... again! :applause:

[David Zephyr]

20. He's run a remarkable underdog campaign and Whitman is now looking desperate.

The financial disadvantage he had that he's overcome can not be overstated. There's never been anything like this.

[cascadiance]

19. Hope he brings back free tuition to California state universities...

... like he put in place before Reagan tore it down. Then there would be at least a group of Americans that are a little more on an even playing field with Indians, who get their bachelor's degrees free now in India. And perhaps then Silicon Valley could once again regain its leadership in terms of being the biggest high tech center again like it was before the Bush administration when Bangalore took away that spot.

[autorank]

21. You're right about Jerry

Comes from a proud tradition.

He's getting some interesting support from a great voting block http://agonist.org/holdingtheline

[femrap]

22. He's not located in

the bible belt though. I do realize the interior of CA can be conservative, but nothing like some states.

He was Gov when I lived in CA...I loved him. I'd like to go back.

[David Zephyr]

25. Come back.

"The West is the best." -- Jim Morrison.

Big welcome mat to you should you return. :)

[femrap]

26. Believe me....it's very tempting!

Thanks for the welcome mat!

[lyonn]

23. He's so Cool

That's slang from a golden oldie. I remember him well from the old days. Truly this is so lacking in today's politicians. They were rare then too but, not like now. Jerry will not live or die if he loses. The other - not at all, we see pure ego, not patriotism.

[bobbolink]

27. Its been said over and over, its been proven over anf over.

But the party bosses have a different agenda.

[shanti]

28. K&R!

GO JERRY!!!!! we're waiting impatiently for ya!

[WillyT]

33. HUGE K & R !!!

:kick:

[Greyhound]

35. K&R.

[Bluenorthwest]

37. Jerry Brown is my favorite Democrat and always has been

I am happy that he is the once and future Governor of my home State of California. I hope on Tuesday Oregon will join CA in returning a former Democratic Governor, Johnn Kitzhaber, to office!

[Overseas]

39. Yes Indeed! K&R! //nt

[DefenseLawyer]

40. I wouldn't call Jerry Brown a liberal

I don't think he's a bad guy, but if you look back at some positions he's taken, he's been much more politically opportunistic than ideological.

[ProudDad]

44. Very true...

My main hope is that he doesn't veto Single-Payer when it comes to the governor's desk again...

Or that the fact that he may NOT veto Single-Payer might scare some of the Dems in the Legislature into changing their votes to "no" since if they pass it again (for the 5th time), it would actually go into effect...

Can't trust those Democrats...


On edit: In other words, Jerry Brown ain't no Barack Obama :hide: :)

[mitchtv]

66. Jerry Brown is my candidate

as is Mr Newsome
Yes on 19
no on 23

[Radical Activist]

68. The California legislature is no US Senate.

Obama makes it pretty obvious that he would take the country farther left if it weren't for the US Senate roadblock.

[peoli]

48. We needed more Jerry Browns in 1992.

[Politicub]

50. Right on. People want their leaders to stand for something

And the dems who try to make sweet love to the middle end up getting dumped.

[provis99]

51. Jerry is the MAN!

But why does he always dress like a Jesuit priest?

[Bennyboy]

52. Yes and I am ashamed for ever doubting him...

His ads are MONEY and show the hypocrisy of the right. Love it.

[mudplanet]

53. Amen. Unfortunately, like Obama, he's going to inherit a shit situation

which is no fault of his but conservatives will unceasingly blame on him.

[glitch]

54. He won't be shy about pointing that out.

He's will to reach across the aisle to reasonable people but I don't think he suffers fools very gladly.

[avaistheone1]

57. That is a fact that hasn't been given much print.

I do have faith Brown can do us right.

[salib]

55. Yes. Yes. Yes.

[avaistheone1]

56. Hell YESSSSSSS !!!!!!!

:bounce:

[madokie]

58. I'm an okie and I liked Gov. Brown when he was Governor

way the fuck over here I could see good when it was over there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI1UBiWsm14
Out of respect

[KoKo]

59. David...it's so good to see Jerry Brown doing so well....

Brings me back to "Good Times of Hope in America." (I know...I'm over-reacting...since Jerry's probably changed with the rest of us.)

BUT....How Good can it be to see him beating Whitman with all her MONEY BAGS...$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s!

It's got to be good after "MACHO MAN!" amd MACHO "Big Bucks Woman" to see that JERRY'S BACK!

Good on You all out there in CA!

[bertman]

60. AMEN!! Brother Zephyr, AMEN!!! REC.

[Liberal_in_LA]

61. 100th rec!

[BlueCollar]

62. I voted for him in 78

and if I was still in California I'd do it again. Jerry Brown is a true Progressive and a genuinely decent human being.

As I sit here in Texas, I can only hope that one day I will get the opportunity to vote for a genuine Democrat again one day.

[DAMANgoldberg]

69. Ann Richards...

was the last genuine Texas Democrat. The best you can hope for is Bill White, but watch Annise Parker of Houston.

[sierrasam]

63. Adds

Why is DU showing adds for Meg?!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let's not sell out our ideals for money!!!!!!!!

[kentuck]

70. I recall that I voted for Jerry for President once upon a time...

in a primary. It seems that I can never vote for the "winner".. ;-)