JUAN "Win at any cost!" VARGAS

Some time ago, I posted a blog called Mismanagement 101 or Welcome to Scam Diego. In it I promised a "Part Two" describing the incompetence of the major political players, governmental and business entities within the area also known as San Diego, California. It is an arduous task because there is so much to expose. One of the points I intend to make in Part Two is that generally, people that run for any political office in the San Diego area do so because it is the best job that they will ever have without having any real marketable job skills.

This brings up the unique case of Juan Vargas, a Harvard Law School graduate and classmate of Barack Obama, who has been a San Diego City Councilman, a California State Assemblyman and a current California State Senator. He is an ambitious man that has wanted to run for Congress for a very long time, but was blocked by the incumbency of one Congressman Bob Filner. So now that Bolshevik bump on a log incumbent Filner has opted to run for Mayor of San Diego, Vargas has finally set his sights on the 51st Congressional District in California. Vargas has held several impressive private sector jobs including an associate attorney position with the silk stocking law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton and Scripps, Vice President of External Affairs for Safeco Insurance, and Vice President of Corporate Legal for Liberty Mutual Group.  Along with his impressive academic credentials and public service, this seems to result in a formidable resume. It is so much so that according to a campaign press release:

California State Senator Juan Vargas secured the coveted California Democratic Party endorsement for his bid for U.S. Congress this Sunday, Feb 12 at the Democratic State Convention in San Diego. The Democratic Party voted to approve the regional Democratic Party's overwhelming decision to endorse Senator Vargas over Denise Ducheny for the 51st Congressional District.

Normally, I don't care much about Democrat primaries because most Democrat candidates pretty much espouse the same old class warfare and race card tripe. But front runner Vargas has assumed a particularly vicious approach towards his opponent Denise Moreno Ducheny. A recent Vargas principal campaign committee mailer was sent to potential or registered Democrat voters highlighting an apparent 12-year old DUI arrest. It clearly states that it was paid for by Vargas for Congress 2012, (FEC # C00497321). There are several other alleged character issues that are included in the Vargas mailer. It's the same old negative campaign tactics that we've come to expect from Democrats. But going after one of their own? Perhaps there is no "11th Commandment" for Dems like the Republicans had under Reagan, i.e., "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

But this tactic of digging up old DUI convictions seems to be a standard Democrat strategy by their candidates for office, as happened to George W. Bush in the waning days of the 2000 Presidential campaign. But why talk about issues when you can take the intellectually lazy way of engaging in personal attacks? It is especially true if it is tired old news. But if it is the admitted heavy alcohol and cocaine usage in a self-serving autobiography by the cool "slow jammin' the news" Preezy then ni modo. 


Liberals can be hypocritical, break laws, break rules, break wind, and have a good chance of getting away with it. So never mind what's good for the country--just get elected--civility and decency be damned. And the scary thing about Socialist/Fascist/Communist and Democrat political parties is that in practice most all of them act in accordance with the maxim that the ends justify the means. If this kind of dirty politics happens in a local congressional election, what can we expect from the Master of Deceit and Disaster, Barack Obama's presidential campaign? More on that very soon...