BILL SIMON DROPS OUT OF CAL. RACE (Fox News)

Fox News | August 23, 2003 | nwrep

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you. I was reading another reply and realized what you're pointing out was true, later.

[summer]

"Arnolds comes across as being or having been 'one of us."

I am not a CA voter, so my opinion doesn't count and I know that - but what you wrote above is the funniest thing I have ever heard in my life, unless you and all your friends are pulling down $30 million per year in wages. I'm a teacher, and I can you: I'm not.

[bootyist-monk]

Living in LA, I'd have to disagree. Doheny to the ocean is 80% (or more) liberal. Large parts of the Valley are conservative. The rest probably breaks about 60% rats / 40% pubs.

[Howlin]

She said she was going to vote no on the recall, and not vote on the 2nd half at all.

[fieldmarshaldj]

If Tom goes to work for the sleaze, he will lose any credibility he has, period. It's time for Ah-nold to drop out of the race for the now sole REAL Republican in the race, McClintock !

[joesbucks]

I personally belive Simon did the right thing.

Having said that,and my personal feelings aside, if he were standing on the courage of his convictions that he should be governor, then he should have remained in the race. No matter what the polls were telling him. For the same reasons Pat Buchanan and Keyes run their races....based on the courage of their convictions depsite the probable outcome.

[kellynla]

This is excellent news for the rank and file conservatives in CA who are responsible for the recall. This will push McClintock's poll numbers up above ten percent necessary to qualify for the debate. The more people learn about McClintock the more who will vote for him! click here! http://www.tommcclintock.com

[summer]

I can you = I can tell you

[medscribe]

Yes, McClintock will be out by Labor Day. With Simon out, the pressure will be that much more on McClintock to get out of the race. If he stays in and Cruz gets elected, he'll be forever known as the spoiler who lost California and never get support from the GOP national machine again.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Put a "$" on your bull-hit, son ! There's kids 'round here. ;-)

[alloysteel]

And things start coming into focus. Maybe all but four or five of the candidates were in the race sheerly for vanity reasons, and one of those has withdrawn. It comes down to Davis, Bustamante, Arnold and McClintock, with nobody else ever expected to poll more than low single digits.

The Democrats still have a problem, with the 'Greens' hot on the idea of steering the whole dialogue further and further into their vision of a new Neolithic age.

Davis is STILL not lovable.

[strela]

but what you wrote above is the funniest thing I have ever heard in my life, unless you and all your friends are pulling down $30 million per year in wages.

"So Junior, what did you read on FreeRepublic today?"

"I read a post where a so-called 'conservative' was upset that somebody else was making 30 million dollars a year. You shoulda seen it - I thought a virus had sent me to DU against my will!"

"Ah, so class envy actually exists on FreeRepublic?"

"Yes indeedydoody."

[summer]

FYI.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Correction: He'll be known as the man who SAVED California from the leftist RINO hordes.

[habs4ever]

Right.....you've had your fun the past two weeks playing "True Conservative", but now it's time to grow and play politics, for that is what is required now.McClintyBob has gone nowhere and it's not getting any better for this loser, and yet, keep digging in and getting more defiant about your moral superiority while he drops further off the radar screen.

Suck it up and join the real world where Arnold and his team are operating.Any further delay to coalesce around Arnie is just one closer step for Bustamente to be the next Governor of California.Time's up.

[DoughtyOne]

I reviewed those cartoons a while ago. Sheesh, they couldn't have been better from a die-hard democrat's point of view.

Folks, trashing Schwarzenegger is NOT in our best intersts. If McClintock can pull it out well and good, but if he can't, Schwarzenegger is the only candidate that can stop Bustamove. We are playing right into the Democrats hands by torching Schwarzenegger when he may be our only hope in the end, like it or not.

Bustamoron would be the worst person we could possibly hope for. He's a diehard democrat who secretly wants to break this state away from the union.

Folks, quit hawking things that slam Schwarzenegger. Othewise just come out and support BustAztlante and be done with it.

[fieldmarshaldj]

You guys ready to do battle ? :-)

[SteveH]

McClintock still has his two vehicle license fee rollback initiatives in his political quiver. They both have been approved by the Calif. SoS last week, and McClintock is biding his time until the forms are printed, sometime next week. The campaign strategy is likely to be something along the lines of piggybacking and drawing synergy from the rollback initiative campaigns... watch for a big kickoff announcement next week... media will be forced to cover it and give McClintock a fresh look as a public figure who has consistently (in contrast to Arnold) been working for fiscal conservative causes at the state level for many years running. I think (?) the license fee increases actually start landing on people around Oct. 1, so that is another milestone date that the media will be forced to spotlight McClintock and his initiatives on. And Arnold can always stumble on his lines a la Simon last campaign season, so it is not at all clear (at least, to me) that McClintock should be counted as out of the race at all. (What am I missing?)

[Howlin]

Is it your belief that only people in the same income bracket can have the same political views?

If so, how is it that you support Jeb Bush?