Patterico's Pontifications

6/8/2010

Vote for Mickey Kaus

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:36 am



You can vote for him if you are a “decline to state” or a Democrat.

Mickey Kaus: He’s not Barbara Boxer!

And he is strong on immigration and unions. A vote for him is a vote for the importance of those issues.

29 Responses to “Vote for Mickey Kaus”

  1. patterico… i think you shoudl clarify. you make it sound like he is a union booster, and he is not. I don’t think that’s your intended meaning.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 6/8/2010 @ 7:38 am

  2. True, Kaus’s strength on unions is his clarity that while great jobs are great things, sucking all the profitability from employers leads to no jobs.

    I do not understand why Kaus isn’t the front runner. Even among the Republicans, he’s much more normal and conveys an instant sense of understanding our nation and CA’s problems and a motivation to sort them out. I assume people who are interested in politics know all about him. Why would Boxer win nomination, then?

    Dustin (b54cdc) — 6/8/2010 @ 8:02 am

  3. Dustin

    i think part of the problem is that kaus is not as well known to regular folk as it is to junkies constantly on the blogosphere, like you or I.

    Either that, or he’s too “normal” for the Dems.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 6/8/2010 @ 9:18 am

  4. Almost anyone is better than Boxer. And I mean almost anyone.

    JD (b537f4) — 6/8/2010 @ 9:24 am

  5. I have known Mickey since college. Anyone who reads this blog and agrees with the core philosophy it reflects would be well served voting Mickey Kaus for Senate.

    Scott Kaufer (ff3afb) — 6/8/2010 @ 9:43 am

  6. Kaus would certainly be an improvement over Boxer.

    JD (b537f4) — 6/8/2010 @ 9:46 am

  7. “kaus is not as well known to regular folk”

    Perhaps I underestimate the democrats of California then. I just assume they would have come across some coverage of him. Of course, it’s stupid to rely on the MSM for anything, but at least one of the Kaus ads I saw was great.

    I suppose it’s asking too much for someone like Palin to endorse a democrat like Kaus, but it would have been pretty awesome to see which side had more exploding heads.

    Dustin (b54cdc) — 6/8/2010 @ 10:37 am

  8. Comment by JD — 6/8/2010 @ 9:46 am

    Punxsatawney Phil would be an improvement on Babs Bouncer!

    AD - RtR/OS! (a0fcb6) — 6/8/2010 @ 10:45 am

  9. I suppose it’s asking too much for someone like Palin to endorse a democrat like Kaus,

    I loved that piece he wrote at Huffpo and the strength of his ideas on union limits, new progressives and the population explosion’s effects on environment (illegal immigration). BUT, I would not want Palin to endorse Mickey b/c he is for Obamacare. That type of intrusive, bloated socialized approach is – for me, anyway – not the answer. Mass. is having problems with socialized medicine and relyig on large amounts of federal handouts for cover.

    Otherwise, yeah. Boxer out and Mickey for the run. Great ideas on how he wants to fix the party before it lurches further left.

    Vermont Neighbor (5b9a87) — 6/8/2010 @ 11:49 am

  10. Mickey Mouse or Micky Kaus–I’d vote for either one over Boxer. I’d also vote for Daffy or Dizzy Duck over Boxer.

    I don’t know if the Kaus campaign is going anywhere–I think not. But he’d be a heck of an improvement over “Call Me Senator” Boxer.

    Mike Myers (3c9845) — 6/8/2010 @ 12:13 pm

  11. Dustin, Sen. Boxer has a huge incumbent advantage, and the Democratic party base isn’t unhappy with her. Generally speaking, incumbents aren’t turned out in a primary unless the activists are livid.

    I voted for Mr. Kaus.

    I also voted: yes 13, 14; no 15, 16, 17.

    I’d meant to write up summary explanations for them all and post to the jury, but ran out of time (and got demoralized when jury posting wasn’t working).

    My predictions for the results:
    * Whitman wins. She also wins in November.
    * Fiorina wins. She loses in November.

    For me, the single biggest question mark of the day is the race for AG: the SF DA is the front-runner, but … given the scandals her office has been plagued with all spring, she shouldn’t be.

    aphrael (e0cdc9) — 6/8/2010 @ 12:42 pm

  12. Pity he can’t win. I just might’ve voted for Kaus over Fiorina (who appears likely to win the GOP nod).

    Mitch (890cbf) — 6/8/2010 @ 12:46 pm

  13. As an aside, had I been voting in the other primary, I would have voted for Poizner (because Whitman strikes me as being a wealthy diletannte who is trying to buy an election) and Campbell (because he’s one of my favorite politicians of either party).

    aphrael (e0cdc9) — 6/8/2010 @ 12:57 pm

  14. aphael, two of the GOP candidates you mention (Poizner and Whitman) are gubernatorial, not senatorial, like Kaus/ Boxer. The Senate contenders in the GOP are DeVore, Campbell and Fiorina. Campbell WAS in the gubernatorial race but switched several months ago.

    Mitch (890cbf) — 6/8/2010 @ 1:04 pm

  15. Let us not forget that Mr.Campbell has recently been employed as the Governator’s Budget Advisor, which would seem to put some mud on his boots.

    AD - RtR/OS! (a0fcb6) — 6/8/2010 @ 1:10 pm

  16. Mitch: yes. I would have voted for Poizner for Governor and Campbell for Senator.

    Instead I voted for Brown for Governor and Kaus for Senator. 🙂

    aphrael (e0cdc9) — 6/8/2010 @ 1:13 pm

  17. I personally like Tom Campbell very much. But the fact is that he supports an increase — even now — in the gasoline tax. Anyone who believes we are undertaxed today cannot possibly win my vote. (In the longer term, I would support swapping some hike in the gas tax for commensurate / revenue-neutral reductions in other, non-consumption-based taxes. But not now.)

    Mitch (890cbf) — 6/8/2010 @ 1:35 pm

  18. I voted for Mickey, as a protest to the sad state of the Democratic Party of today.

    Hope they are listening…

    Patricia (160852) — 6/8/2010 @ 3:34 pm

  19. results and outcomes
    trump feelings and intentions
    retire Boxer NOW!

    ColonelHaiku (749d6d) — 6/8/2010 @ 4:01 pm

  20. Given the state our once beautiful California is in, Democrat politicians don’t deserve your vote… they deserve your condemnation.

    One would be severely challenged to find a more sorry lot.

    GeneralMalaise (749d6d) — 6/8/2010 @ 4:05 pm

  21. “no” on seventeen
    check for brain activity
    you must be kidding

    ColonelHaiku (749d6d) — 6/8/2010 @ 4:11 pm

  22. I’d meant to write up summary explanations for them all and post to the jury, but ran out of time (and got demoralized when jury posting wasn’t working).

    I’d love to read it, if you can get it working later on.

    I hope Kaus does great today.

    Dustin (b54cdc) — 6/8/2010 @ 4:20 pm

  23. Colonel Haiku: I’ll admit that I don’t understand proposition 17, and I really think it falls into the category of complex legislation that there’s no good reason for me to be voting on. I have neither the time nor the skills nor the interest to figure out the economics of the auto insurance industry; this is why we have an insurance commissioner.

    That said, my sense is that it’s being pushed by a single insurance company because it would be good for them, and that it would promote competition between companies for existing insured drivers while making it more expensive for new drivers to become insured.

    I don’t agree with that trade-off. Sure, vendor lock-in is bad, but barriers to entry are also bad.

    aphrael (e0cdc9) — 6/8/2010 @ 4:22 pm

  24. no on seventeen
    insurance bigwigs want it
    you must be kidding

    Specialist Haiku (fb8750) — 6/8/2010 @ 4:23 pm

  25. Aphrael voted no because he wasn’t convinced and didn’t understand the prop’s full ramifications.

    No should be the default vote unless the bill or proposition is well understood. I can only imagine how much better the world would be if people strictly held to that.

    Dustin (b54cdc) — 6/8/2010 @ 4:28 pm

  26. Dustin, I find myself in an odd position because (a) I strongly support the existence of the initiative system as a check on political corruption, but (b) I strongly believe a lot of things which end up on the ballot are, in effect, abuses of that system.

    In this election, Prop. 14 and 15 are the only ones which I think are a legitimate use of the initiative system. I understand that Prop. 13 and 17 are on the ballot because they modify prior initiatives, so I grudgingly tolerate it, but I’m not happy about it.

    aphrael (e0cdc9) — 6/8/2010 @ 4:33 pm

  27. Markos Moulitsas – an honest Democrat – says that when the Left speaks of specifics, “what you get is irrelevant and scary to the American people. … If we’re talking to people, the less details the better.”

    a breath of fresh air…

    GeneralMalaise (749d6d) — 6/8/2010 @ 4:36 pm

  28. Vote for Devore, the only true conservative running for Senate.

    Fritz (9c4a4d) — 6/8/2010 @ 5:56 pm

  29. Dustin, posted over at the Jury and at my reawakened blog.

    aphrael (04e965) — 6/8/2010 @ 8:06 pm


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