Spending time in Sacramento and understanding the political dance that takes place for anything to get done I must admit the problems in CA will take a major shift to get resolved - Newsome can not and will not solve these problems - why would anyone think he is presidential material - Mr. Heubusch's analysis and observations are spot on -
If Newsome could fix California's problems, he'd deserve to be president. I'd even vote for him, but he hasn't done that. He's made everything worse by orders of magnitude.
The observation that "ordinary" is not necessarily sufficient reminds of Nixon's nomination of Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court. The nominee was rejected due to racist comments decades earlier, but in addition, he was deemed intellectually not Supreme Justice caliber. In reply, Sen. Roman Hruska (R,NE) said, “Even if he was mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers . . . They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance?"
Never a column that doesn't include a pithy sentence. For me this week it's "But when the math gets hard, charm does not carry the decimal."
I'm resigned to Newsome as our next president. In our lifetime hasn't it too often been a pretty or handsome face that's too often won the election? JFK, Clinton, Obama, AOC and Ms Pelosi, for example. Hmmm, something about that list; what's the common denominator?
Spending time in Sacramento and understanding the political dance that takes place for anything to get done I must admit the problems in CA will take a major shift to get resolved - Newsome can not and will not solve these problems - why would anyone think he is presidential material - Mr. Heubusch's analysis and observations are spot on -
If Newsome could fix California's problems, he'd deserve to be president. I'd even vote for him, but he hasn't done that. He's made everything worse by orders of magnitude.
The observation that "ordinary" is not necessarily sufficient reminds of Nixon's nomination of Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court. The nominee was rejected due to racist comments decades earlier, but in addition, he was deemed intellectually not Supreme Justice caliber. In reply, Sen. Roman Hruska (R,NE) said, “Even if he was mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers . . . They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance?"
Never a column that doesn't include a pithy sentence. For me this week it's "But when the math gets hard, charm does not carry the decimal."
I'm resigned to Newsome as our next president. In our lifetime hasn't it too often been a pretty or handsome face that's too often won the election? JFK, Clinton, Obama, AOC and Ms Pelosi, for example. Hmmm, something about that list; what's the common denominator?