GOP Senate Hopefuls Show Solidarity on Most Bush Policies

Déjà vu hit Toby Waldorf during Thursday night's forum in Los Angeles for Republican U.S. Senate candidates.

The Brentwood Republican voted last year for Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor, opting for electability over philosophical compatibility. On Thursday, former Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian impressed Waldorf among the GOP candidates, but she wasn't convinced a conservative such as Kaloogian could win with California voters.

People seem to forget that the polls showed McClintock would have beat Bustamante with the same margin as Schwarzenegger.

Yes, people picked the celebrity over the brainy Senator. But, McClintock's conservativism resonated with the people of California who have seen spending spiral out of control in Sacramento AND in Washington.

Kaloogian is the best candidate because he speaks directly to the issues that people care about today: illegal immigration, making permanent the Bush tax cuts, staying the course in our fight against terrorism.

Kaloogian excites people, in contrast to Jones ... zzzzzz .zzzzz... snore.....zzzzzzz.

Please realize that I know you support Kaloogian but many may not.

Since you posted an article from the LA Slime most on this forum will refuse to read the full article. So they're left with your short excerpt.

If you review the excerpt you posted it appears to "dis" Kaloogian with the old baloney "He's too conservative to be elected".

This appears an unfortunate situation. May I suggest that next time you post excerpts that are favorable to your candidate.

Hmmm.... I guess I look at it differently.

I think conservatives are slowly waking up to the fact that we were told to make a Faustian bargain to give Schwarzenegger a pass to beat Davis last time. If you recall the mantra by the pro-Arnold forces here at Free Republic was "Arnold this time, but a conservative for the race to replace Boxer."

At some point if we keep 'dumbing down' our support for candidates and vote Democrat-light for office than we will lose the support of those who hold the flame of principle and ideology that guides the conservative movement and is supposed to guide the Republican party.

I welcome another debate if need be about 'we can beat Boxer with a moderate but not a conservative' as happened with the McClintock-Arnold debate.

The reasons are two-fold:

1) For the reasons listed above

2) Because the RINO crowd seems obvlivious to facts... the fact is CONSERVATIVE Bruce Herschensohn did BETTER against Boxer than moderate/pro-choice Fong.

As to your central point... would it have been better to use one of the other references to Kaloogian in the story - yes I agree. I was just being straightforward and posting the beginning of the column in conjunction with the restrictions on LA Times/Wash Post stories.

I did feel I could live with it though as I have explained in my post. Hope you accept the basic tenets of my explanation, but I will respect your difference of opinion if you don't.

-- Joe

No arguments with your position.

I would have used my 100 word excerpt to present a more positive image considering the forum attitudes toward the LA Slimes and the popular unwillingness to divulge any personal information to that infamous publication.

Through creative editing you could have turned the excerpt into anything you wanted it to be. Few would have actually linked to the article itself and challenged your presentation.

Go Kalloogian!

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