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of Brown’s associates were saying
that Brown was going to be “78
[years old] by Election Day 2016,”
that he “ran for statewide office
only to end [California’s] budget crisis,” and that he was thus
“nearly done with politics.”
A month later, Bernie Quigley,
writing for The Hill, attempted to
coax a Brown candidacy into being with the awesome force of the
purplest prose he could muster:
California rises again with
Brown, and it should come as
no surprise. California brings
the final destiny of our American journey, the final edge of
expectation, the end and then
the beginning again, the place
and time of our American
turning. Steve Jobs put it succinctly at the end: “The spaceship has landed.”
I asked an astute Californian
about Brown’s prospects for national office. He said he will be
too old in 2016. But Brown, Zen
man of contemporary politics,
is in a sense timeless.
Yeah... so that was a lot to absorb. The salient point is that
Brown, obviously, doesn’t have
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the same opinion of his own timelessness. (Perhaps he finally decided to not run when he failed to
regenerate into Peter Capaldi?)
Brown joins a happy confederacy of other men and women
who have indicated that everyone
can stop wondering if they are going to run for president, including
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker (D),
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro (D), New Mexico Gov. Susana
You’re probably aware
that Jerry Brown, between his
first and latest stint as the
Golden State’s governor, ran
for president a bunch of times.
And so, unsurprisingly, there
was always someone on hand
to stoke the fires of retro chic.”
Martinez (R), Massachusetts Gov.
Deval Patrick (D) and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D).
Also, Tim Pawlenty is not going to run for president. (I did
some digging and found out
that this Pawlenty fellow was a
former Republican governor of
Minnesota who ran for president
once before. Who knew? I
guess I totally spaced.)