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California conservatives should be focused on sorting things out between Simon and McClintock. If the California Republican Assembly has endorsed McClintock over Simon, than somone needs to tell Simon to get off the stage. If both men stay in they both lose.

Then there's the question of where on god's green earth McClintock is going to get the money to run a lightning campaign in the largestr state in the union. Darrell Isa can't write him a big check, there's a different set of campaign finance laws in effect.

Of course all these problems go away if conservatives hold their cllective nose and vote for Arnold, but your not going to draw very many fence-sitters to your (conservative) cause by ignoring the problems outlined above.

I totally agree about McClintock and Simon needing to be sorted out.

A huge part of why I switched my support from McClintock to Schwarzenegger is because I realised Simon was far too stupid and stubborn a man to drop out, and it was clear the two of them will remain locked in a death hold.

If Simon were to drop out and McClintock started looking like he had a fighting chance, I may consider switching back.
That is a big "if" and a bigger "maybe", though, because I think Arnold ultimately will bring far more fresh blood into the fold which could significantly impact the political landscape here.

McClintock on the other hand could be trusted to effect quick reform and fix California's myriad of problems, but that is the biggest "if" of all: if he can get anything through the legislature. Somehow I doubt he could. Not nearly as well as Arnold.

Since everyone knows and loves Arnold, and since there will be such media focus on him as Governor, and since he'll be going in as the political outsider, all he would have to do is say to the camera "these Sacramento career politicians aren't helping me", and we will watch them all squirm. Their choices will be to either go along with Arnold's high-profile administration, or lose re-election.

If Arnold could redraw the political map in California and make Republicans formidible players again, I would gladly take him over McClintock whose reforms may be short lived when the next election comes and the Democrats reclaim their Inalienable Right to Govern.