Classical Gasbag 2014

The mind boggles & the jaw drops. Mickey Kaus, 2010 candidate for the Calif. Democratic Senatorial nomination (Not only did he lose, but he had to quit his sweet gig at Slate for his quixotic tilt at the windmill that is Barbara Boxer, &, insult added to injury, he didn't stop falling until he hit The Daily Caller.) has been thinking again. Are you ready for the chance of probably unintended humor? The latest brain-storm (Get this!) is running Fresno's Finest, V.D. Hanson, against current Gov. Jerry "Budget Balancer" Brown. We've saved you the imposition of clicking & the immorality of increasing Kaus's (or Tucker Carlson's) page views by copying the whole mess:

Here’s an idea for beleaguered California Republicans looking for someone to run against Gov. Jerry Brown in 2014: Why not Victor Davis Hanson? He’s an articulate advocate of the conservative point of view on the central political issues of the state – a farmer, scholar, charismatic speaker who combines broad knowledge with ground-level machismo. He’d have an appeal in the disaffected, depressed central valley, where he lives, and the yuppie coast. While he’s skeptical of the current rush to amnesty, he talks about illegal immigrants living in his area with compassion. He’s not a career pol like the other mentionees. He’s a real human being. He’s not a multimillionaire ex-CEO either (we’ve had enough of them). The media would have an excuse to cover him–the fish out of water angle–as long as he kept them amused. The debates with Jerry Brown would be highly informative. It’s possible Brown would freak out in a fit of intellectual insecurity.**

What have the state’s Republicans, now a pitied, powerless minority, got to lose?

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**–Conflict note: Brown has been a better governor than feared–the Democratic left thinks he’s not spending enough, for example. He recently also had the good judgment to appoint a close relative of mine to the bench.

The Calif. GOP doesn't have much to lose, & we'd love to hear Hanson "talk w/ compassion" (Neither citation nor link? A claim that counter-intuitive needs more than assertion.) about wetbacks"illegal immigrants living in his area."

We'll leave "intellectual insecurity" alone; too silly to bother. But what makes Mick believe the GOP wants even a VDH-style intellect representing them? Did he not get the memos on science-thinkin' & collidge perfessers?

Beyond the trivial, we wonder if Kaus's bizarre perception of V.D. Hanson is attributable to the epistemic closure that suggests "Get off my farm, illegals!" is dripping w/ compassion or is it as simple as having been in the same room w/ Mr. (Prof.?) Hanson a few times, & Hanson didn't laugh out loud at him?