Angelides has apparently won the primary. The most important task now is, obviously, to defeat Schwarzenegger.
The second most important task is to ensure that Garry South never works on another Democratic campaign:
"When it comes to Angelides, it would be hard to single out his biggest liability because he's a walking Achilles heel," said Garry South, the chief strategist for the Westly campaign. "Arnold and his Karl Rove-trained wrecking crew will tear the guy apart, atom by atom...he won't know what hit him."As of today, I am instituting the Garry South Litmus Test. I will not vote--will not consider voting--for any candidate who employs Garry South. I hope others will adopt the same standard. It's bad enough that South went negative in the first place, making the primary a lot nastier than it should have been; this--trashing the opposing candidate after the primary--is unconscionable.
The left blogosphere is fighting a war against the culture of consultancy. Here, I think, is where we need to make a stand. Garry South and people like him are a liability for the Democrats, and if the powers that be don't understand that...well, we'll just have to make it clear to them.
[That's all, folks]
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