Ralston: Heck Opponent Not Too Bright

How bad of a liberal politician do you have to be when Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun and Face To Face rips on you this early on in the election cycle.
From Ralston the Las Vegas Sun:  The inescapable conclusion after congressional candidate John Oceguera’s performance on television this week is either he believes in nothing or is scared of everything.
Or both.
Either way, if there are any Democrats who can defend his spectacularly evasive and all-too-revealing appearances on “Face to Face” and “The Agenda,” they should be ashamed of themselves. Oceguera’s refusal to take positions on seminal Democratic initiatives such as health care reform and the stimulus are emblematic of a party whose candidates hope to win by hiding their core beliefs or have decided to discard them — at least temporarily.
This is as sad as it is pathetic, watching a major political party surrender its principles to expediency, putting winning above standing for what it believed only a few short years ago and then wondering why the public won’t be eager to follow if its leaders win and miraculously rediscover their beliefs.
ceguera is the absurd personification of this phenomenon as he gave arguably one of the worst, most vacuous performances in “Face to Face” history Monday and followed up with a nearly identical encore on “The Agenda” on Tuesday. He could not/would not answer a single question on subjects he should, by now, know inside and out, instead reverting to hollow talking points that a Democratic National Committee boiler-room teenager could have provided.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/may/09/oceguera-makes-case-heck/
 Further:
Oceguera again refused to take a position, telling me, “You can go back and rehash the 2010 elections if you want,” something I have neither the desire nor the temperament to do and which did not have anything to do with my question.
Would you have voted for it? I gamely asked the speaker.
“I’m going to look forward,” he replied.
At that point, I was looking forward, too. To a commercial break. Or a stiff drink. Or a 16-ton weight falling on my head....
I walked off the set trying to remember when a politician running for an important office — not to mention one of the critical swing congressional districts in the country — had so cogently made this case for his opponent. I remembered that this was a man who held the highest-ranking legislative position, and I didn’t ask him about any topic that should have surprised him. And then I had the most frightening thought of all: Maybe saying nothing is his campaign platform.
It sounds like that Oceguera feels that since he was going to interview with Ralston, Oceguera was going to throw him softball questions, like they do at the Las Vegas Sun, but Ocegurea was mistaken.  Ocegurea also feels he in entitled elected to the U.S. House and so he really isn't trying that much.
Just another reason to vote for Rep. Dr. Joe Heck who has done a great job in the House.