re: #86 HappyWarrior

I was talking about when he first ran in 1966. Fair point about Union President but my point is he was just another celebrity with an opinion 52 years ago when he was first nominated for governor. And yeah Swift seems to know what she wants from government. West? I have no idea. Tomi Lahren meanwhile is an intellectually lazy hack.

um… even before he ran for CA gov, he was an experienced activist with a whole team of policy advisers whose policy advice he’d been able to understand, remember and articulate.

And as governor, his record clearly shows that he understood about the need for his policies to reflect his constituency, he didn’t single-mindedly pursue his own ideological preferences. He incrementally shifted policy in his preferred direction, after first generating sufficient public opinion to make those shifts not outrageously controversial.

Love him or hate him, he wasn’t “just another celebrity with an opinion”. And he was a far better governor than he was President… mostly because he was answerable to a better constituency.

In the 1976 election, Gerald Ford won the California primary, and the general election. Because California in those days was a moderate state, a swing state.