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I should hope that no one is under the ilussion that if McClintock wins, California conservatives will get everything they want.

There's give and take, and there's compromising.

Having said that, there's compromise and then there's capitulation. McClintock may only be able to take half the ground we want to take, but voting for Arnold is the equivalent of total surrender of our territory to the left.

To use the batting average analogy, McClintock may be able to bat .320, Arnold will hit .059 and score a bunch for the other. That's the difference.

McClintock will not win, period. No chance. Issa had the good sense to get out. If, by some miracle, McClintock did win, he would get far less than Arnold, because any "conservative" is going to spend half his time battling the media and the other half battling the Dems in the state leg. and accomplish nothing.

I remain convinced that this situation needs a "larger-than-life" figure who can go over the heads of the Dems and the media, and that ain't McClintock.