I usually leave the SacBee editorial bashing to jsw. but I feel I must point out the complete biased garbage that Mr. Weintraub is spewing.  Now first, it’s obvious that Wientraub prefers Westly to Angelides.  Fine, I can handle that, but the following excerpt is pretty much garbage:

Angelides is the angry one, the “anti-Arnold” who has opposed almost everything the governor has tried to do since he was elected in October 2003.
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Westly is the earnest one. He worked with Schwarzenegger briefly during the governor’s first year in office before pronouncing himself disappointed in Schwarzenegger and turning against him. A former government bureaucrat and college professor who struck it rich as an early employee of e-Bay, Westly’s top priority is going after the underground economy to collect taxes that are owed but haven’t been paid. (Sac Bee

Not particularly glowing reviews of either candidate.  Frankly, I’m quite sick of the media waiting for some other candidate to enter the race (Reiner, Beatty,…).  Both of these candidates are good candidates.  They are both far more qualified than Governor Schwarzenegger.  They both have more experience than he had, more ideas than he has, and better visions for the State. 

And, no, the Democratic Party does not suffer from a lack of ideas.  It’s the media, in this case Weintraub, that suffers from a desire to see a consistent story borne out: Poor pathetic Dems who can’t win the big one.  That story won’t play this time Mr. Weintraub.