Our friends over at TheLiberalOC.com have caught wind of Assemblyman -- and Red County blogger -- Chuck DeVore's plans to seek the GOP nomination in 2010 to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer.

Chuck will be announcing his plans live over the Internet tomorrow at 1:00 p.m., or his press release put it:

Assemblyman DeVore will unveil his plans to kick-start an effort to stem the tide of liberalism in California and revive the true principles of the Republic.

I realize that kind of language makes liberals snicker, but we could use more of it in an age in which our President-elect associates communism with sharing.

I don't who else, if anyone, on the Republican side is looking at running for U.S. Senate in 2010. But I do know Chuck will be a feisty candidate who will provide Californians with a genuine choice between to starkly different visions of the proper relationship between the citizen and the federal government.

Boxer is a formidable candidate, but one who has also been the beneficiary of that fickle ally of candidates: luck. She eked out a narrow win in 1992 on the back of a smear engineered by her camp via dirty trickster Bob Mulhallond She won re-election in 1998 when GOPer Matt Fong dissipated an early-September lead with a rope-a-dope campaign. The viability of Bill Jones challenge to Boxer ended the day after he won the 2004 Republican primary.

So Godspeed Chuck. Giver Boxer hell!