[pogo101]

With benefit of hindsight, I admit I should have voted for McClintock (who was my, and FReepers’, preference anyway), instead of voting for Schwarzenegger as a form of “Bustamante prevention.”

Now, that is not to say that McClintock would have won, for sure. But even if Bustamante won, he would have done so poorly, hiked taxes and spending so rapidly (even compared to the Sperminator), that I HOPE even California’s wacky-left electorate would have placed the blame on the Democrats, where it belongs. (As things are, with a RINO as gov from 03-10, the voters think that “Republicans” were in charge.)

It’s a painful lesson.

[fifedom]

It’s a painful lesson.

Yes, hindsight is 20-20. But given what we knew at the time, Arnold was the best choice.

If the lesson you take from this is to go with a quixotic choice, then I think that is a mistake. I will still vote for the most conservative candidate THAT I THINK WILL WIN.

The purists here will revel in voting for their ideal candidate but the rest of us will have to live with the disastrous Leftist government that results.