I especially liked the part about Ken Starr and his failings in the impeachment of Clinton.
Clinton and Starr are not hot-button issues in California's Gubernatorial Recall campaign.
I, and most Californians, don't give a rip about how this election affects the rest of the country; we have a mess, and we're cleaning it up. On the flip side, we've never expected the rest of the country to bail us out financial hole in which our officials have buried us.
Wasn't really impressed with the rest of the essay either. I found it to be more of the same appeal to conformity, predicated on the notion that my vote is not mine to cast as I please, even if I'm voting for a Republican, even if that Republican wins, but by less than the artificially raised bar the essayist presumes to dictate to me. "Vote for Arnold because more People Magazine readers do" is simply not compelling.
This is a recall and replacement election of the second most powerful elected Executive in the nation. Only South Dakota in 1921 has recalled a governor. We're doing something unique and Historic in this state and in America, and you all are certainly welcome to pull up a chair and watch us do it. However, I've lived in California all my life, and I've got a few ideas as to why this state is screwed up the way it is, because I lived here when it was a much better place.
There's no way I'm going to have my vote stampeded by people who aren't thinking beyond 2004, and who don't have the knowledge or the desire for my State's best interests in them.
