Sen. Feinstein isn’t always our favorite around here, but she hardly resembles Carly Fiorina. Yet, in comments today, Fiorina tried to snuggle up to Feinstein:

And she also continued a tradition of past Boxer opponents – she talked about how great senior Sen. Dianne Feinstein is and attempted to drive a wedge between the two. By the way, Feinstein is Boxer’s campaign chairman.

“I think Dianne Feinstein has accomplished a great deal on behalf of the people of California and I admire and respect her for that,” Fiorina said. She called Feinstein “a pragmatic voice on issues that matter to the people of California.”

In comparing California’s two senators, Fiorina said “if you look at her voting record verses Barbara Boxer’s you’ll see that they disagree on virtually everything.”

When it was suggested to Fiorina that the two actually voted the same most of the time – Boxer says it’s 90 percent – Fiorina backed down a bit.

“Well virtually everything is an overstatement,” she said. (OC Register)

Well, facts are annoying, aren’t they?  At any rate, Sen Feinstein put out a statement in full support of Sen. Boxer today after the comments:

Senator Boxer and I have worked together for 18 years, as partners, in Washington — and there is no daylight between us on the issues that matter most to Californians. We have worked together to create jobs and keep them in California.  We have strongly defended a woman’s right to choose.  We believe that urgent action is necessary to halt climate change and create clean energy jobs, and we support permanently protecting California’s coast from offshore oil drilling.  In a time of serious terrorist threats to the homeland, we believe it is important to keep guns out of the hands of people whose names are on the terrorist watch list.  And we both worked to get more water transfers in the Central Valley so that farmers could plant, hire and harvest this year.  Let there be no doubt that I believe California needs Barbara Boxer in the Senate, now more than ever.