[ElkGroveDan]

PING

I stumbled on the RINO watering hole.

[kellynla]

Just a bunch of moronic mostly out-of-state Aunold fan club members who couldn't tell you the difference in Westwood, Westlake, Lake Forest and Lakewood! They don't live here, don't pay taxes here and from the looks of things they don't even have a job other than sitting on this forum making a total ass out of themselves. ROFLMAO They have nothing to debate because their boy Aunold has NO FRIGGING PLATFORM TO DEBATE!!!

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

"Intellectual conservative.com" LOL, that isn't pretentious or contradictory at all. Then put out this tired garbage again. This talking point is from like 2 weeks ago. The new RINO talking point is that we are being too divisive, which this tripe actually violates, but then again detecting their own hypocracy has never been a Triangulation Republican's strong suit...

Maybe we should give them what they want. Maybe WE SHOULD get (R)nold to win. Maybe that Disaster is precisely what these partisan hacks need to finally get just how wrong they have been about the letter R above all.

Oh wait, the controvesies have already lost (R)nold the middle(you should have heard this woman I work with ranting at lunch about how she would never vote for (R)nold and vote for Bustamante before him, I just laughed to myself), wonder what they'll be singing when Tom's poll numbers show him higher? These people have never been honorable about admiting they were wrong, they'll probably attribute it to you or me. Take the Rioden-myth you had to despell..YET AGAIN on here. These people literally have as much intellectual honesty as the Democrates.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

I stumbled on the RINO watering hole.

DON'T drink the water Dan, it's poison. Run! Save yourself! It's too late for the other ones!

[Torie]

Thanks for the ping. Overall this is a quite awful thread, generating more heat than light. Folks are just nervous. I suspect it will all work out. I am perhaps one of the few serene Freepers around (perhaps the only one) on this matter. The candidates are under tremendous time compressed pressure. I think any suggestion of McClintock dropping out, until the fallout of Arnold foreclosing more than just one debate (on talk radio I heard that in that one "debate" questions will be submitted to the candidates two days in advance; wazzup with that?), and his performance in that one debate (did he show that adequately prepared with the presubmitted questions?), is probably foolish from an overall Pubbie standpoint. Having said that, I hope that McClintock and Arnold don't trash each other too much (and I am quite confident they will not on a personal level).

Arnold seems to be under tight handling by Drier. Maybe a wiser strategy would be to just let Arnold be Arnold, just let him to do it in all the debates, and let the chips fall where they may. Folks will forgive Arnold not being a technocrat, if he is quick on his feet, shows a sense of humor, and has a reasonable overall vision for dealing with California's fiscal house of cards, with at least some detail as to how he will approach the tough tradeoffs.