Promising the moon - again

Does anyone really believe that if Meg Whitman gets elected governor she will magically scale back public pension and improve the schools? Or that Steve Poizner will cut income and sales taxes by 10 percent? Yet the airwaves are filled with this seasonal nonsense. Everybody else has failed and somehow you are going to save the day. From the Sacramento Bee:

What's clear is there are no easy solutions to breaking the gridlock and no ways around tough bipartisan negotiations, said Jack Citrin, director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley. "The notion that one of these people can come in and wave a magic wand and make things different is just not a very serious possibility," Citrin said. "There are entrenched structural factors in the polarization of the parties, the revenue problem and the continuing drive on the part of lots of people and lots of interest groups to sustain expensive programs."