"What can I say? I think he'd make a great attorney general compared to the other guy. By the way, who is the other guy?'' Savage said, when asked why he chose Democrat Brown over conservative Republican Chuck Poochigian.
Savage, whose rants can be heard locally on KNEW-AM, is backing up his hot talk with some hot money as well. Savage Productions, which lists Savage as president and his wife, Janet Weiner, as director, has donated $5,600 to Brown's campaign.
"You have to make choices in an imperfect world,'' Savage said. "And this, this Machugian guy. (Like we said, it's Poochigian.) I never heard of him. I don't even know who he is."
Poochigian has spent the past 12 years in Sacramento, first in the Assembly and now in the Senate. Doesn't impress the president of the Savage Nation.
"Why bet on a horse that isn't going to win? Why throw your money into the garbage?''
So how did the best-selling author of "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder'' wind up backing a liberal once nicknamed "Governor Moonbeam"?
"People change. He changed. He has experience,'' Savage said of Brown. "He started the Oakland military academy -- that was a good thing."
And Brown's politics?
"He's moved to the center, which is what this socialist state needs," Savage said.
"So that's about it. I'm sure you will spin this and make something out of it."
Brown campaign manager Ace Smith would say only, "Michael Savage is one of 5,000 contributors to the campaign."
As for the Poochigian campaign, chief adviser Ken Khachigian told us, "We have Bo Derek, they have Michael Savage -- so between us, we've got the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.''
Who needs to spin after that?
Dr Weiner is a demented blow hard
Oh man, what will the three guys on the Savage Daily Thread say now?
Let him pick whoever he wants. At least we shouldn't enforce groupthink on him.
If he wants to vote for the original illegal immigrant, in this case from a distant planet... let him.
....ahem.
Very interesting.
Savage is Not conservative in the least. I'm thinking RAT shill to make the GOP look bad.
Well, I actually think he's right that Jerry Brown has moved to the center, and I don't actually think he'll be all that horrible as AG, although I'd still vote for Paghoogian or whatever his name is if I wasn't still voting in Washington.
But for a wingnut like Savage who thinks virtually every member of Congress is a socialist, he's just proving what most of us already knew: He's either a liar, and idiot, or mentally unstable. Possibly all 3.
Maybe it's just me, but I would certainly check out the positions and qualifications of the Republican candidate before supporting the Democrat in any election.
The "I'm voting for the guy I heard of" rationalization is the talking point of the braindead "moderate" voter who has no interest in actually learning about the issues before the electorate.
Bad enough? There's more --Savage totally KISSED HIS ASS!
I still remember when Savage was a hero to me 8 years ago--called up Tom Lantos, chewed him out, then SLAMMED THE PHONE DOWN ON HIM.
Savage *TURNS* on his friends.
BUYER BEWARE.
Some of his rants are dead on though.
Savage can support who he wants, however the only center Jerry Brown ever moved to was the middle lane of a three lane highway !!!
Michael Weiner is the 21st century equivalent of Morton Downey Jr.
In private though, I can say from second hand experience that Dr. Weiner (Michael Savage), when you really get to know and understand him is a first class asshole.
Savage is nothing more than a "conservative" Michael Moore. Hopefully, this hasten the end of his career.
Support of a part is support of the whole.
My only comment about Savage is that he is loud and unshakeable. When he's right, he is loud and unshakeably right. When he's wrong, he's loud and unshakeably (and sometimes shockingly) wrong.
Gee, I sympathize with Mike completely. It's too much to expect a busy "conservative" commentator to educate himself about every candidate in every remote corner of California. I mean, Sacramento and Fresno are just so far out of the way from San Francisco, aren't they? I mean, especially when you've got such a great "conservative" as Jerry Brown right there in the Bay Area.
And this guy has the nads to criticize others for being sellouts. What a piece of work he is.