Dream the impossible dream

Front page news isn’t always on the front page because of its shock

value.

Thursday’s story “Airport Working Group not giving up” is as fine

an example of that as you can find this side of a story headlined

“Newport backs Republican president.”

Clearly, as long as there is a strip of concrete at the closed El

Toro Marine Air Base that is long enough and wide enough to land a

model airplane on, the battle over the future of flight in Orange

County is going to continue.

And, while it’s easy to imagine Airport Working Group attorney

Barbara Lichman dressed up as Don Quixote -- or should that honor go

to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who gave the keynote speech at the group’s

annual meeting last week -- we’re not going to write off any windmill

tilting totally.

After all, the working group -- affectionately known as AWG, but

we eschew acronyms here -- has what it sees as Newport Beach’s best

interests at heart.

And that’s nothing to laugh at or disparage.

Now, whether Newport Beach is comfortable playing the oppressed in

need of the man of La Mancha’s aid may be something we can debate.