State Democrats elected 76-year-old John Burton as party chairman Sunday. That should lock up the senior vote, but is going old school the best course for the Democrats?
Burton, the former congressman and state senator from the Bay Area, told convention delegates that he's "an old-fashioned Democrat, a blue-collar liberal." Now that's a political throw-down to California conservatives.
My first thought when I heard Burton was going after the job was there will be a lot of "bleeps" in his broadcast interviews. Burton likes to swear, and you usually can't use his best quotes because they don't make sense when you have to delete the expletives.
The Sacramento Bee had this quote from Burton: "I am younger than Winston Churchill, the last time he was prime minister."
Isn't there a swine epidemic sonewhere? Where is the high speed rail when you need one?
Retro or (a)Red? A typo?
"Red" Ron Dellums not available?
It reminds me of my youth - lost in the mists of Time as he and some other antique codgers should be. If he makes a comeback I'll have to believe in ghosts or at least time-travel.
And they say the Republicans are living in the past.