June 4, 2008 - 3:17pm
GOPers hit Stockton's McNerney for Obama endorsement
By Alex Isenstadt
U.S. Rep. Jerry McNerneyRepublicans are casting U.S. Rep. Jerry McNerney’s Tuesday decision to throw his superdelegate vote behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama as an example of how McNerney is out of touch with his Stockton-area district.
“This continues the role Congressman McNerney has played since he was elected -- he's a sheep not a shepherd,” said Richard Temple, an adviser to Dean Andal, McNerney’s Republican opponent.
“This endorsement just shows that liberal birds of a feather flock together,” said Ken Spain, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “McNerney and Obama have voted time and time again for their reckless liberal agenda that has no place in the White House or in California’s 11th Congressional District.”
Republicans have been quick to point out that McNerney, a first term Congressman who unseated seven term U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo in 2006, occupies a district that has traditionally leaned Republican. George W. Bush received 54 percent of the vote in the district in 2004.
The contest between McNerney and Andal, a businessman who has held seats in the state Assembly and the California Board of Equalization, is expected to be one of the most closely watched in the country.
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GOPers hit McNerney for Obama endorsement? No kidding?
The incumbent freshman Democrat is suppose to do what? Endorse the Republican Candidate for President?
Barack Obama is going to win in a landslide. He will have long coat tails and the Congress will be overwhelmingly Democratic.
That a district that went for Bush by 4% in 2004 has little to do with 2008. Bush's approval ratings in 2008? Less then 28%.
Who would serve the district better? A second term Majority Democratic Congressman or a Freshman Minority Republican Congressman?
Republicans in the next congress will be reduced to minor party status to pay for the excesses of the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress's lack of oversight.
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