The Guns of the Navarone

First of all, we'd like to preface our newest post. We don't want anyone to get the wrong idea and start thinking this is a Republican blog. It's really not. It's just that...well, the Democrats have just been a little boring so far. You remember when you got that Ant Farm and for the first hour or so, it was so cool to watch the ants scurry around and start digging? Then, you woke the next day and couldn't care less about what they were doing? Working again? How boring. Well, it's sort of like that. The Democrats are busy, all right. Busy building a quiet faction of candidates for offices all over the county.

Now that that's out of the way - it looks like we're the first to comment on tonight's debate....errr...forum. Here's the thing about debates...errr...forums: you can go in with the best intentions, but in the end, sometimes it turns out like this.

Gunnison showed up with cheat sheet in hand and looked like she was ready to pull some "Making the Great Wall of China Disappear" tricks. But it never happened. It was more like a "Look like Bob Casey" trick. The only guy to win on the "I'm not the other guy" platform. She didn't really lay out the plan for reform that we were expecting, but rather took shots at Barclay, Eichelberger, Rovegno, maybe even Cecconello.

It was very West Side Story-ish: campaign crews were rolling deep - Barclay had his (why else would half of the Republican State Committee show up?) and Eichelberger had his (we saw you, Matt Best). We thought that Gunnison swung for the fences and came solo, but as we left, we saw Dave Harris, lurking in the shadows. What can we say? The beatnik Joe Trippi must know his stuff.

While we're not sure how to sum up, we can say that things went very...expectedly. It looks like Desperation City for Gunnison, so we'd recommend she reins that in post haste. Focus on a Five-Year Plan toward countywide success. The winner of the day? Today is a tie. Rovegno constantly impresses us with his everyman demeanor and his Encyclopedia Brittanica brain. I mean, what other county commissioner knows although the LA Dodgers won the 88 World Series, the highest amount of homers posted was 25? (Kirk Gibson, by the way) The other winner? Gary Eichelberger. Again. As time goes on, we see less and less reason to try the New & Improved version. He might be a Republican, but we think we like it.