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I don't know about you, but I don't want Arnold to sit as Governor for another five years.

Agreed.

If the RP isn't going to challenge the guy in the primaries, I do support the public doing it on their own.

From the reaction of the CA GOP (the Sundheim quotes I showed you), it sounds like they will come out in force against anyone that opposes the 'leaders' desires. To me, that means that they need to be replaced before an organized movement could be successful. Dufus as much as said--"do not oppose us or we will withhold any money from your campaign". Until these 'leaders' stop ingnoring the signs and cries of discontent in speaking for all Republicans, I'm not very optimistic.

I know other disagreed on this, and I don't really want to fight that battle again in the here and now.

Fortunately, you and I agreed to disagree a long time ago on this. It saved FR a lot of bandwidth! LOL.

I do think the public might be primed to understand why installing a popular unknow is a bad idea. Hopefully they got that out of their system and another bold unknown would be seen as just that.

I don't know about that. Even the CRA guy was trying to recruit Mel Gibson! He's a great actor and movie maker, but its time to quit looking to Hollywood casting for candidates. I think we need a major WONK movement! The thought that only celebrities can win is ridiculous (I offer as proof Deukmejian, Wilson, Davis).

In that environment, a well known person with solid fiscal and social polices such as a Tom McClintoc might be acceptable to the public.

He was acceptable before--his favorables were as high as Arnold and his unfavorables were lower. Had it been a two man race (D vs R), polls clearly showed him winning against Bustamante. I don't think Westly or Angelides are very popular within their party either, so there certainly is an opportunity. BUT... without formal Party support, he'd probably be committing political suicide. The Lincoln Club and New Majority billionaires would rise to oppose him.

I don't see how another recall could hurt us worse than five more years of Arnold or four more years of his challenger this fall.

Why have a recall? We have an election in November. Getting a candidate and neutralizing the destructive CA GOP leaders is the problem.

Perhaps you see the recall process as flawed and never wanted to see it in the first place.

While I could see the writing on the wall with Schwarzenegger from month 1 of the campaign, it was only after the election that I truly saw the recall in its true light. I'm not sure if I would have changed my vote.

Maybe they can look to Giuliani's experience as inspiration for a script change. Some kind of illness requiring AS to pull out of the race gracefully.... Okay, I know... but one can hope, right? LOL.