Editorial: Re-elect Sen. Dianne Feinstein
2006-10-12
Source: Washington Examiner
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rss feedFourteen years ago, Dianne Feinstein could have left public service at what others would have considered a pinnacle. As an accomplished San Francisco supervisor and mayor, in times that required sure-handed crisis management, she had nonetheless failed in her bid to become California's governor. The private life surely looked sweet.
Instead, she chose to continue in the bare-knuckled arena of politics, declaring her candidacy for the unfinished Senate term of Pete Wilson, the man who denied her the Governor's Mansion two years before. Her victory was a great moment in the state's political history, the beginning of a second act for which Californians may be grateful.
If there are solid arguments for term limits (and there are), there?s an even better case for tested experience. Over the last decade and a half, Sen. Feinstein has not disappointed those who looked to her for balance and for philosophical liberalism tempered by the hard realities of recent history.
These qualities, and not because we agree with every vote she has cast in the Senate, lead The Examiner enthusiastically to endorse her re-election.
Some on the left end of the Democratic Party have not forgiven her for taking the global war on terrorism seriously. For unforgiving anti-war ideologues, it wasn't enough that Sen. Feinstein acknowledged that she felt misled into supporting the Iraq war by the Bush administration.
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