Let's suppose there was a hypothetical public figure who had all of these qualities:

1) He created and later served as president of the hippie-dippie Evergreen State "College".

2) He led the campaign against Initiative 200, which abolished racial preferences.

3) As a UW Regent, he publicly castigated a group of College Repubicans for speaking out against racial preferences.

4) He lent his name to a "School of Public Affairs" that is mostly a platform for idiotic left-wing propagandists.

5) He continued to champion Sound Transit Link light rail, long after it became obvious that it was an unsalvageable disaster.

6) He supports the Seattle Monorail Project, to the point of backing a lawsuit to stifle its opponents.

7) He and the Washington Education Association are the state's two most prominent endorsers of a candidate for Attorney General.

8) He is every Democratic newspaper columnist's wet dream of what a Republican should be.

9) He is working with the same folks behind MoveOn.org to discourage other Republicans from voting for the President.

Would you say that such a hypothetical public figure is:

a) A garden variety tax and spend big government liberal
b) A self-important, superannuated irrelevancy
c) A "Dan Evans" Republican