[Hostage]

A Republican takes the Governor's mansion, GW makes a deal to bail out California and carries the state in 2004.

The new governor spends all of 2004 issuing press releases of discoveries of scandalous spending by Davis, drumming up a long train of disgust for democrats in the state. Things start to improve, local budgets are stabilized, businesses see a pickup, the GOP candidate for Boxer's seat wins hands down. California gets back their conservative electorate and returns to fiscal sanity.

[Rensselaer]

Or... GW makes a deal to bail out California, must include aid to other states as well; state governments around the country lose restraint on spending, federal deficit goes up another $75 billion; stock market rebound halts.

Despite the bailout, the GOP governor is still faced with huge deficits, and must either raise taxes, cut spending, or both. He tries to cut spending, activating all the liberal groups. Homelessness stories cover the papers. Democrats in the legislature spend all of 2004 issuing press releases about the hard times in the state, activating their base and moving swing independents into their column. The governor's spending cuts stall in the legislature, and he resorts to a compromise including a variety of tax increases on business. The further weakens the California economy, and alienates the GOP base. Boxer is elected hands down. The Republicans are left weaker than they started.

[FairOpinion]

"Things start to improve, local budgets are stabilized, businesses see a pickup, the GOP candidate for Boxer's seat wins hands down. California gets back their conservative electorate and returns to fiscal sanity. "
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Now this is a scenario I like! From your keyboard to God's ears, as they say.

[boris]

"A Republican takes the Governor's mansion, GW makes a deal to bail out California and carries the state in 2004."

Impossible. California is lost.

I signed the recall but it really does not matter. CA is locked solidly Dem for the rest of my lifetime at least. Not another Republican senator. Not another Republican Assembly. Not another Republican governor.

Well maybe Arnold, but he will be a fluke.

How do I know this? Voter fraud, illegals voting, dead people voting. It's over...but still fun to watch Davis squirm.

[Wolfstar]

Nice dream, but that's all it is.

[cartoonistx]

A Republican takes the Governor's mansion, GW makes a deal to bail out California and carries the state in 2004.

More likely Davis, seeing the writing on the wall about late August, resigns and allows the recall effort to twist in the wind as the new governor, current leutenant gov Cruz Bustemonte, takes his seat! Bush continues to snub California and the state declares bankruptcy just after the election of President H. R. Clinton in 2008!