Pro-Earmark Congressman Endorses Pro-Earmark Ogsbury

A lot can be said about congressional candidate Jim Ogsbury. He's an unabashed moderate who donated hundreds of dollars to pro-abortion Democrats like Ed Pastor, Gabrielle Giffords, David Obey, Patty Murray and Elaine Richards. (He gave money to Giffords when she was running against Randy Graf.)

But perhaps nothing demonstrates more Ogsbury's lack of conservative credentials than his accepting an endorsement from Tucson Congressman Jim Kolbe. (Remember, the liberal left-wing Kolbe retired ONLY because he knew he could not escape a primary challenge from Graf.)

In Congress, Kolbe was the biggest pork barrel spender of them all. For all the good that John Shadegg, Jeff Flake, and John McCain tried to do on the earmark side, Kolbe would screw it up. Ask the people in Tucson about all of the pork barrel spending down there.

Well, Jim Ogsbury has embraced pork barrel spending. Laura Knaperek has not. She wants to get rid of it.

Mark Anderson wants to get rid of pork. All of it. David Schweikert says he's against it too, but he refuses to hold himself accountable to voters, so there is reason to question his commitment to conservatism.

Ogsbury's endorsement doesn't show that he can win, only that he's promising to uphold Kolbe's long standing record of thwarting conservatism.