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To: Amerigomag
Given a choice between Davis and Bustamante,

What kind of choice is that?

Would you like to be shot once in the head? Or twice?

No thanks. When the time comes I'll vote Arnie (though I vehemently disagree with him on many social issues) and I won't give it a second thought.

237 posted on 09/10/2003 4:28:02 PM PDT by Smogger
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To: Smogger
What kind of choice is that?

A choice you may face.

Schwarzenegger came to the race with a built in 10% disadvantage. His handlers knew he would never appeal to the far right in California. A volcal group that represents about 10% of the votes cast in statewide elections.

Schwarzenegger's challenge was to carve enough from the center to overcome this disadvantage. He may well do that but thus far he hasn't.

Further aggravating his problems are the moderate Republicans who are attempting to sway that 10% with pragmatic logic and humilitation. It won't work. That 10% fled their Republican Party loyalty because they are ideologues and ideologues respond neither to pragmatic logic nor intimidation. The harder they are pushed, the more their resolve in their core beliefs is strengthened.

I find it amusing that Republican moderates are now flocking to this forum and are surprised that their viewpoint, now matter how logical or pragmatic from their perspective, is not warmly received.

264 posted on 09/10/2003 4:42:50 PM PDT by Amerigomag
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