[Jim Robinson]

Why would they not at least come out and vote for McClintock? That makes no sense to me whatsoever.

And I'm serious. Those who sat out the elections should not complain about the results. They got what they wanted.

[SmithL]

Those who sat out the elections should not complain about the results. They got what they wanted.

Or, they got what they deserved. And the rest of us get to live with it.

[Antoninus]

Why would they not at least come out and vote for McClintock? That makes no sense to me whatsoever.

Because it's a lot harder to motivate people to come out and vote specifically for the down-ticket people. Arnold won with Democrat votes, not Republican votes. Conservative republicans seem to be generally disgusted with the party. That seems to be the over-riding theme of the past election. The GOP was fired for not doing their job, or doing it poorly.

And I'm serious. Those who sat out the elections should not complain about the results. They got what they wanted.

Truth be told, Democrat rule is not what they wanted. But they refused to reward failure and were not motivated by fear as the GOP seemed to hope. That may not be my mindset, but I know a lot of people who think that way. In my case, I ended up voting third-party here in NJ in the Senate race. After the Christie Whitman debacle, I'll never vote for another pro-abort/pro-homo Republican. We didn't even have a Republican running for Congress in my district, so I just did a write-in. All the local offices, I voted straight GOP--where they bothered to field a candidate.