Tom Campbell is a moderate Republican running against Carly Fiorina for a chance at the Senate seat currently held by Barbara Boxer.

We know that Campbell is moderate on social issues because he courageously opposed proposition H8 which banned gay marriage , he has taken a public stand against don't ask don't tell , he has come out strongly in favor of abortion rights he accepts campaign contributions from gays and feminists and does not appear at Moral Majority meetings.

As a moderate Tom Campbell will bring a new spirit of cooperation to Washington by continuing to oppose any meaningful health care reform. He will do so because he knows who his constituents are.

That would not be the 25% of Californians who are currently without health insurance. That would be the folks he talked to the other day as reported by the very entertaining Leah Garchick "gossip columnist" of the SF Comical:

. . .when Campbell rose to speak, his fiery attack on Boxer as a big spender began with an even more aggressive remark, that he was running to get her out of office.

The candidate's talk seemed tailored to answer the questions posed before his speech, and targeted to these listeners. As to health care, Campbell's main thrust was that the Democrats' bill would be costly to those in the more-than-comfortable income brackets, that is, most of the people around the table.

It won't pass, he said Thursday, citing the falling apart of the Clinton-proposed health care bill in the early '90s. By today, we'll probably know if he was right. But his prediction was greeted with a sigh of relief around the table. There was at least one exception. Imagining Uncle Sam leaving me on my own in my dotage, I pushed aside the sherbet and fished for the strawberry in my dessert cup.

He was wrong about the bill passing. let's see if he is wrong about replacing Boxer.