Oh, no! Torie has seen what everyone else has missed! I need to get all of those petitions back that I've turned in, 'cause I have it from the pure source that we're gonna be stuck for sure with Governor Bustamonte a couple of years early.
How could I have been so foolish? /sarcasm
Come on, Torie, why don't you let yourself have a little good clean political fun once in a while? California may well be a lost cause, but I'm not going out without a political fight. What's the expression? Lead, follow, or get out of the way? Something like that.
Pour moi? LOL!
What in the hell does that have to do with cutting out DiFi with Chocolate Mountain?
If it looks like a blowout, it is Governor Bustamonte, and except the tax raises, all kinds of stuff will be passed that Davis vetoed, or said he would veto, and thus it died, that won't be repealed for a long time.
First, it won't be a blowout and you know it. Frankly, my favorite scenario is that a wounded Davis survives a recall (the less that gets done in Sacramentill the better). Simply having staged the election will IMO preclude all sorts of mischief and use up Slave Party money for 2004 like nothing else could (or did you think about that, chessplayer?).
Second, if Davis thinks he owes a bundle to his handlers, he'll allow all that stuff anyway. If he thinks he has a chance by playing moderate, he'll veto the stuff. In either case, if he stays, if a liberill wins a recall, or if the Cruxman grabs the brass ring, the state tanks and the voters will either rebell or it won't matter because the same things would happen but slower.
The only outcome that is different is if a conservative wins the election via a massive grass roots effort and a divided Slave Party vote. It's possible and I'd take it.