[mbraynard]

I don't think that McClintock should drop out because the Ds are going to pull a very hard, very nasty, very devestating "late hit" on Arnold, probably the Thursday before the election, and with no McClintock the Rs will not be left with a viable candidate in the race.

So please, do not think that us McClintock supporters necessarily would prefer to fall on their swords than suffer having a left winger representing their party.

And lets carry this one further - maybe it's the Rs supporting Arnold who are being short-sighted. What would you rather have - a clean shot at Cruz in 06, or having to defend the failure that Arnold will become in 06? Better blow it for Arnold now, teach the establishment we will not be taken for granted, and watch the state burn for a few years and elect a true R, than have to apologize for the inevitable deadlock between Arnold and the hippie legislature and march into battle with an aging, no longer novel Terminator in 06? With Cruz as Gov, W might even pick up the state in 04.

So again, before you you go calling McC people stupid, maybe you Arnold sell-outs should reconsider your own position.

[RGSpincich]

I don't think that McClintock should drop out because the Ds are going to pull a very hard, very nasty, very devestating "late hit" on Arnold, probably the Thursday before the election, and with no McClintock the Rs will not be left with a viable candidate in the race.

What makes you think the Dems don't have dirt on the psychotic McClintock? Wandering the halls of the state capital late at night talking to the portraits of past Republican Governors. "I coulda beat you, I coulda beat YOU, too and I sure as hell coulda beat you."