This is what I get for not paying close enough attention to the California Primary. With quiet Democratic contests and the Whitman/Poizner fight on television, I didn't bother looking further down the GOP ballot...until today.
According to Politico, state Republican operatives, never known for their courage, are wetting their pants over the prospect of our friend Orly Taitz, yes, ORLY TAITZ, winning the Republican nomination for CA Secretary of State.
Orly Taitz is an Israeli émigré who has spent the past two years filing lawsuits challenging President Barack Obama’s right to be president on the grounds that he was born in Kenya. In the process, she has earned herself $20,000 in court fines.
Now she’s running for the GOP nomination for secretary of state, and with her establishment-backed primary opponent mounting a less-than-stellar campaign against her, operatives say there’s a chance she could win.
"It’d be a disaster for the Republican party," says James Lacy, a conservative GOP operative in the state. "Can you imagine if [gubernatorial candidate] Meg Whitman and [candidate for Lt. Gov.] Abel Maldonado — both of whom might have a chance to win in November — had to run with Orly Taitz as secretary of state, who would make her cockamamie issues about Obama’s birth certificate problems at the forefront of her activities?"
I can and I am looking forward to it. At the very least, it could take attention off the likely losses of Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris in the races for Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General in November. I can't wait to see the hoards of tea baggers showing up to Republican rallies while Meg and Carly try on their moderate masks. The California GOP never fail to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.