[Roscoe]

Really? How do you "guarantee" it?

"C'mon. He can call for reducing taxes. If he admits that Californians are being punished by high taxes, why shouldn't he call for some relief? Like I said the other day, he reminds me of Ross Perot. He sees all the problems, but has no solutions. Gonna get a bunch of people under the hood and study the problem. Hell, the problem is too much government. The solution is to get the government the hell out of the way. Conservatives know this instinctively. Less government. Less spending. Less taxes. It aint rocket science." --Jim Robinson

[beckett]

Jim Robinson's Perot analogy for Arnie applies to what Robinson sees as the emerging Schwarzenegger campaign strategy. He may have a somewhat valid point, but the analogy falls apart at the crucial comparison -- the polls. Perot was a never anywhere near as strong a contender for the office he sought as Arnie is for Governor of California.

I frankly I admit I am not a purist in politics. I subscribe to an old and honored strategy of practical politics -- compromise -- because I believe politics is the art of the possible, not the imposition of perfection.