Petracca Backs Brewer?

Village idiot and UCI Associate Professor Mark Petracca has this to say about Marilyn Brewer in the latest OC Weekly: Democratic Realpolitik.  In part,

Democrats need to vote for Brewer. If Democrats vote impulsively for a Democrat to fill that seat—and there are good ones—they’ll find themselves Oct. 5 with their thumbs in their bottoms and a hardcore conservative in the U.S. Congress.  It’s all about mathematics. Under no reasonable circumstances can a Democrat win this district, which includes the Republican strongholds of Laguna Niguel, Laguna Hills, Lake Forest, El Toro, Tustin, Newport Beach and Irvine. In the 48th, Republicans outnumber Democrats by about two to one; the district has more registered Republicans than any other California congressional district and the lowest percentage of registered Democrats in any state congressional district.  So the choice for Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans is easy: knowing that a Republican is going to win, would you rather have Marilyn Brewer—an unpretentious, pro-choice, small-business owner—or John Campbell, an ostentatious, pro-life, wealthy car salesman?

"Thumbs in their bottoms?"  It's more like Petracca's got his head up his butt, as usual.  He also had this to say about Campbell:

Campbell is more at home in the rabid right wing of his party. He’s opposed to gay marriage and stem-cell research, for more war and guns, for less health care, and regards environmental protection as needless regulation. It’s safe to say that if it’s for death, Campbell is for it.

For a Political Science teacher with a liberal Democratic agenda, he's not coming across as very bright -- or very loyal to his party. 

With all your ideas, Mark, why aren't you running and carrying the flag for the great unwashed instead of screwing your party pals by actually suggesting for a Republican (albeit, a RINO)?  Wouldn't you really be more comfortable in Berkeley?  Or East L.A.?

Comments

[IrvineGOPer]

The taxpayer's pay this joker's salary!
And I'm am sick of the local press portraying him as some kind of unbiased political commentator.

This race is about right or wrong(left) and there are only two viable candidates. If Jim Gilchrist really believed in what he says, he would drop out and endorse John Campbell before the Democrats pull a fast one.

Hey GOPer,

Didn't you just prove Petracca's point?

[Gustavo Arellano]

East LA? Don't get it.

[Will Swaim]

Your response to Petracca is so mangled I hardly know where to begin. Take just this one sentence, in which Petracca ruthlessly pursues "a liberal Democratic agenda" but isn't "very loyal to his party" because he's backing a Republican in the 48th. Is just a little logic too much to ask for?

what a disappointing review, OC Blog ...