Remember Bill Simon
and remember, Simon lost in large part due to back stabbing by exLA Mayor RINO Reardon and the Sacto RINO money men who starved his campaign since he had beaten a Rockefeller/lefty RINO in the primary. Of course the CA RINO money men always demand that beaten conservatives back any Repub and they undermine and sit on their hands when a conservative gets to the general. A huge loss of a “golden” opportunity in McClintock, and SchwartzenKennedy would never have made it through a Repub primary... wolf in sheeps clothing and all...
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You have nailed it perfectly. The gang of rats chose Ahnold to run, knowing voters would go dippy over him plus Dems liked the Kennedy wife. Now in retro IMO he produced the same effect on people as Hussein in ‘08.