Look, I really find these personal attack messages on FR and anywhere else to be entirely non productive.
I conclude what I conclude based upon what I read, hear and see. I read McClintock's letter and he's trying to shame people to voting for someone even he admits is not a conservative, as a Republican, and doing so with his identified incentive of if we don't vote for that (Schwarzenegger, a liberal registered as a Republican) that we're then responsible for a bad outcome, the "loss" of the office to the GOP.
But he chastises Republicans to vote FOR a liberal candidate as a Republican, which means we are being "advised" that we "need" to abandon our ideals and issues as voters for the mere and only incentive of "winning" by electing yet another liberal to office.
I find McClintock's statement troubling and I don't agree with his failed reasoning there.
I also did not vote for McClintock and after reading this letter of his, won't be at any future time.
I believe the CAGOP has and continues to pursue a bad methodology here, by holding "winning by becoming a liberal but you get to keep your Republican registration" advice as methodology, they literally defy conservative principles upon which MOST OF US REPUBLICANS have believed is incentive to be voting (and registered) as a Republican in the first place.
Draw your own conclusions but please stop pointing fingers at other voters when and as we exercise conscience over for who and how we vote. The animosity implied does more to discourage Republican voters than you seem to be able to accept.
I'm going to continue to vote for candidates that are ethical, who I find as believable as possible and who represent conservative values and ideals.
I won't be voting for Schwarzenegger and I won't consider voting for McClintock after reading that letter. If that makes me someone despicable to the "we're liberals but we're the CAGOP anyway" crowd, so be it.
I am very disappointed, as I wrote earlier, that the Lincoln Club leadership isn't confronting the obvious contradiction of terms here, however. I really had higher expectations of them, knowing many members in my lifetime -- and I can't imagine THEM as individuals not shaking their heads in disgust at McClintock's letter.
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Well, let's see -- you didn't vote for McClintock, or Arnold, the ONLY Republicans in the governor's race. By simple process of elimination, you must have voted for Bustamante, by your own admission.
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"Draw your own conclusions but please stop pointing fingers at other voters when and as we exercise conscience over for who and how we vote."
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It's a free country, you can vote for whomever you want, but please stop pretending to be a conservative, when your actions result in Dems getting elected and Dem agenda being fulfilled.