This afternoon, I attended the Ose Campaign event in Capitol Park where discredited Governor Pete Wilson endorsed Doug Ose for Congress because Senator McClintock had failed to help Pete Wilson raise taxes in 1991. I think I was the only person present who was not paid to be there by the Ose campaign, besides a handful of reporters who seemed even more disgusted by Doug Ose's desperation than I was. Unlike a normal press event, there was not a single "softball" question for Ose.

Governor Wilson began by repeating the same worn-out attacks that the Ose Campaign has been repeating since the beginning (Tom McClintock collected per diem like every other legislator and he refused to vote for an unconstitutional bill that would have made it more difficult for servicemen to obtain credit). Wilson droned on without enthusiasm until he got to his real message: Tom McClintock had not helped Pete Wilson back when Wilson was trying his best to destroy the State of California. Can you believe? Not only did McClintock oppose Wilson's record-breaking tax increases, which Wilson himself has publicly regretted, but McClintock was no help at all on a whole host of stupid ideas that Wilson was trying to impose on our state.

Pete Wilson actually complained that Tom McClintock voted against the "car tax cut" that he signed. This is the very same car tax "cut" that allowed Gray Davis to unilaterally triple the car tax three years later! In front of two dozen witnesses, Wilson actually criticized McClintock for refusing to support the idiotic bill that allowed the Governor to triple the car tax without a vote! As everyone knows, Tom McClintock was the author of the bill (and two initiatives) that would have cut the car tax completely. Pete Wilson hijacked the popularity of the McClintock bill and instead signed a horrible Democrat bill that resulted in a massive tax increase three years later. Now he wants us to be upset at Tom McClintock for refusing to sell us out the way he did?

Then Pete Wilson complained that Tom McClintock had been no help in "his" efforts on illegal immigration. Keep in mind that Governor Wilson OPPOSED Proposition 187 back when I was out gathering signatures to get it on the ballot. Keep in mind that Wilson's appointees voted against funding it and endorsing it back when I was successfully fighting to get the California Republican Party to help the campaign with start-up funds. As a member of the State Party's Executive Committee, I had to publicly fight the Governor's evil minions who were using all the arguments against Proposition 187 that the liberals later used against it. They lectured us that it was somehow "racist" to refuse to hand out welfare checks to people who were in this country illegally! By contrast, Tom McClintock was always a reliable ally in the fight against welfare benefits for illegal aliens. Pete Wilson only joined our side after polls showed that Proposition 187 was four times more popular than Pete Wilson with likely voters. He saw that he needed our support to get re-elected, so he switched sides. Now, with no apparent shame, he is taking credit for the entire fight and claiming that one of our most reliable and articulate allies was "no help."

Just when I thought that Doug Ose's pitiful campaign could not sink any lower, they managed to find a way. Ose actually dug past the proverbial bottom of the barrel right into that wastewater that he keeps talking about in every debate!

To the shock and disgust of everyone present, Ose actually brought the parent of a baby who had been shaken to death by a babysitter to speak in favor of -- you guessed it -- Doug Ose's miserable campaign for Congress. The bereaved parent said Tom McClintock had voted against funding a special government program to inform parents not to shake their babies to death, so now he was supporting Ose. It was really a pathetic speech to hear and I felt sick to see Ose sink so low. I guess we are supposed to believe that without government funding, parents would routinely shake their babies to death. I was led to believe that every house must have had a stack of dead babies in the garage before the Democrats created a new government program to print helpful warnings about the dangers of shaking your baby to death. If Doug Ose gets elected, I guess he wants us to believe that he will use earmarks to get federal funding for a program telling parents not to throw their babies from airplanes, feed them ground glass, shake them unmercifully, strangle them, or whatever.

Forgive me for being so irreverent about such a horrible topic, but I am not sure how to react to such a disgusting and mindless attack from the Ose campaign. It is clear that Ose is now so desperate that he is exploiting the corpses of dead babies to attack Tom McClintock. Our district needs a statesman like Tom McClintock who has enough respect for the United States Constitution and our cherished freedoms to tell grieving parents that we cannot create an expensive new government program every time a baby dies under tragic circumstances.

As for the Pete Wilson endorsement, Doug Ose has reminded us of the very thing that he should be hoping that we would forget: Tom McClintock has been a reliable ally in the fight against higher taxes and bigger government. Like his "moderate" friend Pete Wilson, Doug Ose has blown with the wind, only supporting Republican principles when he was forced to do so by better leaders than himself. Just as Jimmy Carter's endorsement is the kiss of death for Democrats (a veritable Good Housekeeping Seal of Incompetence), Pete Wilson's support is a sure sign that a candidate will abandon Republican principles at the first possible opportunity.

No wonder Ose's brain-dead campaign held this event in Sacramento County where he lives, rather than inside the Fourth Congressional District. Ose knew better than to launch such outrageous attacks in Placer County!