What you pragmatic Repubs need to understand is this: As long as we elect pro-abortion candidates to office, our efforts will not be blessed. The blood of millions of unborn children are crying from the ground for justice, and when we continually sacrifice them on the altar of pragmatism, we make ourselves complicit with the ones who perpetrate the deed.
I understand that in California, the "right" to an abortion is written in the constitution and that no governor really has the power to overturn it by executive fiat. However, the office of Governor, as well as being an executive position, is also an educating position. We need to back a governor who will use the bully pulpit to influence pro-life thought in the state. Else, we will continually cede the pro-abortion argument to the left.
California is pro-abortion, in part, because of you "pragmatic" Republicans who keep arguing that we have pacify the left. And now, with a jewel of an opportunity to back a pro-lifer, Tom McClintock, you are squandering it on a RINO. I'm ashamed.
McClintock can't get elected in California period-why waste your vote. Rome wasn't built in a day-got to take that first step which is weaning California away from Dems. Also, in Georgia it may come down to a pro-life Dem and a pro-choice Repub. I am voting for the Repub. Why? Our best hope to overturn Roe V Wade is through the courts-ie Surpreme Court. A Republican governor in California would help elect more Republicans to the House and Senate (some will be pro-life),maybe even deliver the State to Bush in 2004. A solid Republican congress and a Republican President would get conservative judges confirmed: our best weapon in the abortion debacle and in other important conservative issues.
Tom McClintock can NOT get elected....not this time.....there needs to be a "steppng stone" ala a liberal republican. don't kill the good to get to the perfect. Arnold will make it easy to vote "R" for the first time.