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I am not a Novak fan in any way. However, he does understand that the race is between Arnold and Bustamonte. He also seems to think that Bustamonte will be elected due to the tearing down of Arnold by Simon and McClintock. On these issues, he's correct. The purists, as usual, will elect a RAT to the CA governorship. They will destroy any rebirth of the GOP in CA, they will ruin any possible chance of Bush winning CA in 04, they will make the clintons look like heroes once again...but no matter, they have their principles...right?

What does your argument have to do with Novak carrying tales from the Arnold camp that Riordan was too confused to mount an effective campaign for governor.

Anyone who has seen Riordan in recent days could see that for themselves and it was hardly necessary for Novak to carry tales out of the Arnold camp.

You people are amazing. Those of us who support candidates who are not, as freakin' Robert Novak admits, "non-conservatives and only nominal Republicans", are derided as "purists" who doom the state to Democrats. I've got news for you: you are dooming the state to a likeable but inexperienced cipher of a candidate who dazzles with star power but, to date, won't say what he stands for or what he will do, and who gives every indication so far of having not-a-dime's-worth-of-difference between his positions and a Democrat's.

I'd love to be proven wrong in that over time, but the burden of proof is borne by Arnold.

I admit, sifting through the tea-leaves of Arnold's past statements, there is reason for some optimism: his fondness for Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan, for example. But his sole electoral accomplishment so far was to champion a highly socialistic taxpayer-funded after-school program "for the children", and now he's tabbed billionaire socialist Buffett as an economic advisor-- he of four-figure contributions to Hillary and Dodd and Shays and Feingold and Harkin. Very disquieting... yet to say so is to be "purist"?

Unless Arnold steps up to the plate and lists his positions, there's a real risk of mass delusion going on.