The Knight School

In the context of the American political process regarding female candidates from the Republican Party contesting male Democrats chivalry is dead, buried, decomposed, and then dug from the grave like Oliver Cromwell for the summary humiliation of having its severed head placed on barbaric display. Just look at the way Christine O'Donnell is being pilloried by Chris Coons and his local and national media surrogates in the Delaware US Senate campaign for the so-called Joe Biden seat. And then there is the repugnant slur used by Jerry Brown's close circle calling his opponent (please gentle reader forgive the unexpurgated language as an accurate quote must be used herein) a "whore". This term is applied to one of America's great ladies who has lived a near ideal life in making one of America's corporate megaliths eBay a household name, marrying a neurosurgeon, and by most accounts having a wonderful family. So a political hack who failed as Governor Brown seeks to impose his old tired tax and spend liberal ways over the new ideas so successfully implemented in business by Meg Whitman on reeling California. Between Jerry Brown's rehashed no idea and Whitman's new idea, I think it is time for Californians to give running state government like a business and in Whitman's case a highly successful business a try. Who knows, with a little luck, Whitman may even salvage the state.