The Democrats' two candidates for governor, Phil Angelides and Steve Westly, are escalating their personal attacks as the June 6 primary draws closer -- but the insults they've exchanged so far are pablum compared to the sheer nastiness of another statewide primary duel. Former Assemblyman Tony Strickland and state Sen. Abel Maldonado are jousting for the Republican nomination for state controller and as it happens, their duel represents this year's only clear-cut conflict between the ever-hostile conservative and moderate wings of the Republican Party. Conservatives may carp about what they see as the quasi-liberalism of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, but they...