Jerry Brown sets his sights on Attorney General's office (MoonBeam Alert!)

Bakersfield Californian ^ | 8/28/04 | Michelle Locke - AP

[NormsRevenge]

What say we recycle MoonBeam to the compost heap this time around?

MoonBeam IS ..

The EnerGizer Politician..

He just keeps running and running..

[NavySEAL F-16]

"I think it's very natural that someone in my position would want to be attorney general," he says. "My father said he liked it better than being governor."

Can't they ever get a real job, instead of living off the taxpayers?

[Flash Bazbeaux]

As someone who has lived in Oakland for most of Jerry Brown's tenure, and close to Oakland before that, I must say that we could have done worse than to have the Moonbeam as Mayor for the past five years. Strange, but true.

While he first ran as a progressive, and may in fact still consider himself a progressive, he is seriously to the right of the typical Oakland "activist". I am not sure I want him as AG, however.

[ridesthemiles]

What say we recycle MoonBeam to the compost heap this time around?

If he is so experienced, he needs to stay as Mayor of Oakland where all that "experience" will do the most good. He needs to apply and laws in existance to the law breakers of Oakland, one of the highest crime areas of the whole USA. Jerry Brown hasn't moved much since his early political days and his dating of Linda Ronstadt.
Can't you just guess that California voters would like to Jerry squiring Linda baby around the state again?

Besides, Kevin Shelly's job is going to be open soon. Jerry can stand for that special election- sooner.

[Sonny M]

Was he the democrat in 1992 running for prez in the primary who wanted a flat tax?

[BonnieJ]

He is more honest than most liberals anyway.

[I still care]

When I hear him on TV, half the time I say, what a fruitcake and the other half wow, this guy has some good ideas - I wish the GOP would pick up a few of them.

By the way, does anyone know where he picked up the moniker "moonbeam" - or is it just a general description...

[Calvin Locke]

Was he the democrat in 1992 running for prez in the primary who wanted a flat tax?

He let himself get whipped, or "whupped" as Jimmy Carter would say, in 1980, by fruits.

Well, fruit flies, actually. Mediterranean Fruit Flies, iirc.

They did a number on the fruit crops.

[paul51]

I saw moonbeam on one of the talk shows this past week and he was nearly beserk over the ongoing charges against kerry. This explains it. He is watching his appointment go out the window.

[Uncle George]

After he was kicked out of the Rat party he went to a mountaintop in Asia and lived with the Monks for a year contemplating his belly button and catching moonbeams. After he became partially sane again he made his return to politics in the HALF-SANE PARTY. If you saw him on Hannity & Colms lately, you witnessed one of his attacks of mental stupidity. He's a Carvile without a Southern drawl.

[Graybeard58]

I heard the moonbeam on tv recently call himself a moderate.

I giggled a little bit.

[Steve_Stifler]

Lunatic, asylum. Asylum, lunatic.

[bilhosty]

"It may seem like the latest leap in a hopscotch career"

It looks to me like his trajectory has been downward since he was Governor!

[Captain Peter Blood]

Well I got news for Pal. Jerry Brown is independently wealthy and he doesn't live off of the taxpayers.
When he was Governor he lived in an apartment he paid for instead of the Governor's Mansion.
He left California with a huge budget surplus when he left office and has always been mindful of how the public monies are spent.
I know Jerry and he is a decent compassionate guy who cares about people and what will happen next. He is a social liberal but a very strong fiscal conservative and is a very deep thinker which somehow is taken as a joke.
A lot of his ideas when he was Governor were a little ahead of their times but at least he was trying new things to solve old problems.

[DUMBGRUNT]

That nick came from Mike Royko of the Chicago Tribune.
IIRC Royko later wrote that Jerry Brown had some good ideas on immigration (?)and was not a total moonbeam.

[Bobibutu]

"As someone who has lived in Oakland for most of Jerry Brown's tenure"

As someone - since '43 in Oakland off and on - I concur -

[Bobibutu]

Well said!

[MikalM]

This Oaklander (resident since '93) concurs.

You can't really peg Jerry on a one-dimensional left/right spectrum -- his politics and ideads are very idiosyncratic, and despite his lifelong Democratic affiliation, he's never been a "party man."

[MikalM]

ideads = ideas