Mickey Kaus, a blogger, political gadfly and Barbara Boxer’s dark horse Democrat opponent in the California primary election, is proud to announce that he hasn’t been endorsed by the Los Angeles Times.
The Times reports Kaus’ comments on its comments:
Kaus e-mailed reporters Friday morning with an “L.A. TIMES ENDORSEMENT SHOCKER!” The paper did not endorse him, but, “amazingly,” he said, it didn’t endorse Boxer either. The Times editorial board wrote Friday that Boxer “displays less intellectual firepower or leadership than she could” and didn’t endorse any primary candidate in the Senate or governor’s race. It said it would issue endorsements in the general election.
Kaus turns the tables on Boxer with this unusual perspective:
“The point is,” he wrote, “the paper got a look at both of us and decided not to endorse the three-term incumbent over the blogger.”
If the Times polled its readers, we suspect that Boxer would defeat Kaus by a 10-to-1 margin. Of course, that’s based on the wildly optimistic belief that all eleven remaining Times readers would vote.
Source: Los Angeles Times
