[kellynla]

FYI Tom McClintock received over THREE MILLION VOTES in the November election, 100K more votes than Simon and more votes than any other Republican running for statewide office in spite of being outspent 5-1 and still came within 17k votes of winning. Now 3 million votes is what I would call a serious voting base! Now that Tokyo Rose propaganda "you can't win" that I see floating around FR, just doesn't fly in America and hasn't since 1945. Only quitters "can't win!" VOTE4MCCLINTOCK or pay the con$equence$! http://www.tommccintock.com

[ambrose]

I am beginning to think it is all hopeless if even Freepers are rooting for a RINO who opposes Prop. 54.

[RonDog]

FYI Tom McClintock received over THREE MILLION VOTES in the November election, 100K more votes than Simon and more votes than any other Republican running for statewide office in spite of being outspent 5-1 and still came within 17k votes of winning...

"came within 17k votes of winning" in a two-man race means that he "lost." :o)

UNFORTUNATELY, there is NO PRIZE in politics for second place.

[Dog Gone]

I would sure rather see McClintock run against Boxer, where we need a strong conservative candidate, than to risk ruining his career as Governor.

Who cares if Arnold ruins his political career? He never had one.

The reality is that the next CA gov is going to be almost as unpopular as the current one, because the free lunch can no longer be delivered from government coffers.

A Republican would cut services, presumably, if the Legislature agrees. The unrealistic socialist utopian electorate would hate that. The Rat would raise taxes, making it even less attractive for businesses and people with real jobs to stick it out and the budget falls further into the red.

Here's the choice. The Rat makes it worse, or the Republican fails because he's suddenly the scapegoat, and one that all the special interest groups and nannystate lovers hate.

Where's the upside to that job?