Predators

Despite all their public talk about closing the gap on the recall, Team Gray acted as though they were deeply worried about just that. At his only public appearance of the day, where he signed legislation promoting stem-cell research, the embattled governor simultaneously expressed satisfaction with his uphill climb and increasingly pointed disdain for Schwarzenegger, predicting that he couldn’t handle the give-and-take of a debate. And his staff unloaded a blizzard of press releases, focusing on the good works of the governor and the evil, ignorant ways of his opposition. Actually, only one evil, ignorant opponent in particular. That would be, of course, as the candidate self-deprecatingly referred to himself at a recent press conference, “Governor Schwarzenschnitzel.”