For those of you that don't regularly read the Auburn Journal for your Charlie Brown campaign updates - he had Wesley Clark in town to shill for him the other day. Charlie says his campaign is patriotism before partisanship, people before partisanship, your dog before partisanship, pass the state budget with tax increases before partisanship and don't question my service record before partisanship... Wesley Clark must have missed the memo - or maybe the candidate who spent all of his money in 2006 railing on ethics forgot his own on the way to the 2008 election. Wesley Clark went out of his way to say some choice words while infesting Roseville for a day... these are certainly words Charlie should disavow (quite unlike his silence on the effigy or taking money from Don "federal investigation" Perata or the Communist Barbara Lee). We have come to realize that while the Brown campaign clings to Per-Diem (which is a legal part of compensation) they are leaving their flanks wide open with contradictions. General Wesley Clark is the latest one - The Press Release for Tom McClintock's Campaign pretty much says it all:

Former Democrat presidential candidate Wes Clark, founder of an organization called WesPAC, came into town this week to support liberal Democrat Congressional candidate Charlie Brown. Clark's 527 political action committee is designed to exclusively promote liberal Democrats. "Clark put partisanship before patriotism in speaking to the media after what was billed as a non-partisan event with Charlie Brown," said John Feliz, McClintock campaign consultant. Clark appeared with Brown at a charity event for veterans and then spoke to the media in starkly partisan terms to promote Brown's candidacy in the race for the House of Representatives in the 4th Congressional District. In Clark's interview, he eagerly hoped that the district is "going to go blue" as he reduced the campaign to a simple partisan divide between Republicans and Democrats. WesPAC's website essentially lists partisanship as a key objective of the organization: "Elect Democrats to the White House, Congress, state offices, and local offices in order to implement new policies ... and replace the current unwise policies established by this Republican Administration and Congress." "Charlie Brown is hoping no one will notice how partisan his friends are," said Feliz. "He fundraises with liberal Democrats like Brad Sherman and Barbara Lee and headlines his charity events with a dedicated Democrat who can't miss an opportunity to take a partisan swipe at Republicans like Sarah Palin." "How are we supposed to believe Brown's campaign motto 'patriotism before partisanship' when he promotes a proven ideologue who focuses on attacking Republicans to get Democrats into office?" said Feliz.