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California deserves every stinking moment Gray Davis is in office. They voted for the guy, and if they had their way, Gore would be President. I say let the man serve out his term just like his idiotic constituency wanted him to

I hope everyone reading this is paying attention, because this is the primary out-of-state-er motivation for opposing the recall as I am seeing it; irrational hatred of the people of California.

I didn't vote for the guy, he campaigned on a lie that the deficit was about half what it is, and the conservative that ran against him wasn't supported by the RINO CA GOP won every county in the state, except for 2, San Fran and LA, which gave him a 52-47 win.

Didn't your mother ever tell you if you don't have anything nice to say, keep your mouth shut?

The above is typical of the provincial attitude of most Californians. I was born and raised in that bastion of liberalism, so don't for a nanosecond think this New Mexican isn't acutely aware of the level of ignorance on the left coast. My illustrious state voted Bill Richardson into office, and he can remain there as testimony to the wishes of the majority voting constituency. I have no problem with the reap-sow cycle.

Let me ask you something: assuming all goes as planned by people in favor of a recall, and a republican takes over in the place of Grayout--heck, let's go one step further and say a REAL conservative and not some RINO--why do you believe he alone could magically solve the state's budget crisis, with the legislature dominated by leftists? And why do you believe that suddenly everyone would blame the *legislature*, and not the new guv if efforts to fix the crisis don't go smoothly?

Look, I live in state and signed the recall petition, but I'm concerned that there's plenty of potential this could backfire--even if we (miraculously) get who we want as the new guv. Maybe I'm a pessimist, but it sure seems likely with a lib-dominated legislature the solution will *never* consist entirely of cutting the budget. (And by the way, the RINOs in the legislature have been just as spineless at pushing cuts as the dems--inexcusable!).

Finally--let's be honest. Grayout is incompetent, but he was not 100% responsible for the power crisis. He certainly screwed the pooch in his handling of it, but the root causes were in place before he got into office, and like it or not, many power companies arbitraged the flawed dereg environment at great cost to the state.

Anyway, I'd like to see the recall succeed if for no other reason that the additional disgrace it would bring to Grayout. Beyond that it's anyone's guess whether this will help or harm California--and conservatives.