CA-04: Doolittle Gets Jilted By His Prom Date

Babaloo noted on Calitics that Assemblyman Ted Gaines has put together an exploratory committee to run in the June Congressional primary against John Doolittle. Gaines becomes the third Republican to announce for the primary, joining talk-radio host Eric Egland and Auburn City councilman Mike Holmes. This is great news for Charlie Brown; even if anti-Doolittle sentiment among Republicans is 70%, in a four-person race the anti-Doolittle vote will be fractured enough that the incumbent would be likely to prevail. And Doolittle would be clobbered in a rematch with Charlie, IMO.

But for Doolittle, this one's gotta hurt. After all, it wasn't so long ago that he and Gaines attended the Enchantment-Under-The-Sea dance, swooning to "Always & Forever" and "Endless Love" until the sun came up the next morning. Here's a pic:



Ain't they the cutest? And now, blind ambition has ripped them asunder. It's sad, really.