As for the suporters, I know what you mean. I would have liked to have seen people be more supportive, but some seem more inclined to commit political suicide than help someone they don't like do something that was worthy.
As for Tom being mostly supportive, I think he tried to walk a fine line. His criticisms would sound like sour grapes if wasn't careful. I think he's tried to rise above that and not carp when he probably should have more often than he did.
Very well put.
I hope Tom's maturity is not lost on the voters next election time.
Absolutely inaccurate.
Almost every conservative on this forum supported the Austrian when he made the few conservative decisions of his short political career. Even when those few decisions were made at the tip of the mob's pitchforks.
He received praise from one and all when he vetoed the homosexual marriage bill, the alien recognition bill and challenged the status quo of political districting.
He rightfully received condemnation for his liberal fiscal policies (both budget proposals and both attempts at borrowing), his expansion of cradle to grave social programs (beginning with Prop 49 before he was governor), his taking of personal property rights (Sierra Conservancy), his dimishment of Second Amendment rights, his appointment of liberal judges (which continues to this day) and his appointment of liberal activists and Democrat Party policy wonks to his personal staff (which also continues to this day).
Please refuse to sup the Kool-Kid being freely given by the Republican Party loyalists. They accelerated the mess we face in California today and they aren't going to provide a solution, only bigger problems.