This is a seriously dumb move by McClintock.

His big plus has been that he

is a serious, capable guy, who knows how to fix things. This image has been

sufficiently well cultivated to take people’s minds off the BRN–Big

Republican Negative, viz. that we are thin-lipped puritans who want to stamp

out all horseplay and make everyone dress in suits and sing hymns. It puts

McClintock in Ken Starr territory–in CALIFORNIA, yet!! Bad, bad, with

floating voters and persuadable Democrats. Bad, too, with Republican

voters–he is taking sides, however justifiably, with the enemy. Bad, bad,

bad.