Posted on 07/05/2007 12:01:32 PM PDT by calcowgirl
I love Tom McClintock. I tried to warn everyone not to vote for Schwarzenkennedy but they wouldn’t listen. Now, just look at this mess. I hope they’re happy.
The Republican Party's leading candidate was neither a traditional Republican nor beholden to the party mechanism. The party was the only mechanism available in the state that could provide the average Republican candidate with sufficient funds/support to competitively campaign for office.
When the CAGOP grasped for survival and cast their lot with a high profile candidate the die was cast. Traditional, Republican partisans, at all levels within the party hierarchy, found themselves on the horns of a dilemma. Capitulate to the current whims of the elected leadership ... and continue receiving their support or .... object to the bastardization of the party and loose all hope of reelection and perhaps even the significance of the CAGOP in California politics. Many, including the Senator, elected the former.
Those who capitulated had no illusions about our Austrian guest. They simply made pragmatic, political decisions which allowed them to feast for another day at the public trough.
From one perspective, the governor gets more points than his philosophical adversary, the senator. Throughout this sorted affair the governor, in spite of his rhetoric, seldom drifted from his core principles while the senator eventually surrendered his principles in a effort to extend his public, political career.
Saundra, this is confusing to me.
How can you love Tom McClintock and support Mitt Romney?
Mitt's governing style is far more akin to Schwarzenegger's.
Both are big gov't. Tom is NOT, and neither is Fred, whom Tom likes.
Tom McClintock’s admiration of Fred
http://www.californiarepublic.org/archives/Columns/McClintock/20070618McClintockThompson.html
I heard the outstanding debt has gone up 6 times since the recall election from the level it was when grey’out’davis was in office....
what has AAAAhhhhnold done for us?
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