Of course you don't like hearing it; the Democrats are USING the Republicans. They are letting us spend our time, money, and political capital to remove from office *their* problem (i.e. Davis).Then they are going to run a major national figure like Bill Clinton or Al Gore to replace Davis.
They are going to win in a landslide in 2003, and then they are going to use that victory as their non-stop talking point during the 2004 Presidential campaign.
Picture Bill Clinton as governor of California, campaign for Al Gore and Hillary for Pres/VP in 2004.
The Democrats want as much national firepower as possible in play in 2004, and that move would get *BOTH* Clinton's back into the media spin-cycle.
The other angle is that they get Gore into the California governship, and then he campaigns for big-money-man Kerry and Hillary for Pres/VP in 2004.
Consider that California is the Democrat's *LAST* political prize.Republicans control *everything* else. We've got every major state governship (e.g. New York, Florida, Texas, Georgia) except California. We've got the House, the Senate, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and more than half of all state legislatures.
California is it for the Democrats. It's ALL that they have left (pun intended) of any consequence.
Yet posters here on FR are acting as though the Democrats will roll over and GIVE California's governorship to us out of the goodness of their hearts!
Nope. The Democrats are going to bring in a major *national* figure to win a landslide 2003 governorship election in California, and then they are going to use that victory as ammo for their 2004 Presidential campaign.
They are going to use this recall against us if we submit those signatures for certification. To think anything else is to think that James Carville and Donna Brazille are being silent and playing nice because they have kind hearts...