California’s Alan Keyes, Tom McClintock, is so determined to make his way into the Guinness Book of World Records for the man with the most losing campaigns that he’s already planning to lose his next two AFTER he loses the Congressional race against Charlie Brown.

In California’s wonderful world of term limits, the future is now for any officeholder looking at the imminent — or not so imminent –end to a political career. And in the state’s version of musical chairs, those politicians already are figuring where to jump when the music stops.

Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock, for example, has taken the Boy Scout motto “Be Prepared” to heart by opening 2010 campaign committees for both lieutenant governor and the state Board of Equalization, even while he’s running for a North State congressional seat in November.

Sure enough, check the Secretary of State’s website and McClintock has already taken out two exploratory committees.  He was actually already planning the BoE run in 2010 (in a district nowhere near CA-04) before winning “American River Canyon Idol” in the Republican primary, but his anticipation to lose the Lieutenant Governor’s race again is new.

The difference between Charlie Brown and Tom McClintock is that one can’t live without being a politician, and the other lives to lead, regardless of his profession.