The Least Worst Choice

In one remarkable political ad we’ve seen, the 21st Century version of Ian Flemming’s thug, Odd Job, knocks an Obama bobble-head doll off a post with utter scorn and brags how he stood with our Governor against availing 50,000 needy Nebraskans of affordable health care by preventing Medicaid expansion. He wants you to know he was a brick in the wall of obstruction that has been thrown in front of America’s progress and recovery.

The gubernatorial Primary is looking bleak. We’ve got “Daddy Stock Bucks” who wants to change the way government works (code for more breaks for the wealthy), “Beau Brummel” Bruning another solid brick who fought affordable health care and says he “won”, although it’s not clear anyone else did. And “Odd Job” McCoy, who thinks it’s cool to symbolically smack the POTUS to the ground.

Around here we think these three belong in the private sector. We don’t need an oligarch for Governor. We don’t need a wannabe oligarch either. "Beau Brummel" Bruning says he has a plan to reduce property tax revenue. Shifty. And C’mon, “Odd Job” McCoy’s behavior is just crude. Nebraskans don’t want someone who seems like a thug in the mansion. That may play well on TV, but in real life? Really?

Then, Carlson & Slone, fine men in whose corners the odds makers are not, should be scratched. To paraphrase Conan Doyle, When you’ve eliminated the ones you don’t want for this who-should-do-it primary, the one that remains is the least worst choice. Mike Foley has been quietly keeping state government honest for years.