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Maybe if Arnie were willing to debate McClintock I'd go back to the 'reasonable' option but for now you can consider my vote as thrown away.

Why on earth should Schwarzenegger debate McClintock with only 3 1/2 weeks to the GENERAL election??? To FURTHER divide the GOP vote and give Bustamate an ever LARGER victory?

This is NOT a primary, for pete's sake. We are united or we get Bustamante. If you want to throw your damned vote away like the Perot people did, then do as you please.

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OK.

But to claim that a debate is counter productive is no less an insult to the common guy than the democrat cat fight & demonizing we saw last week.

Figure it out, people who have been the foundation of conservatism, republicans if you don't mind, are concerned about Schwarzenegger's real beliefs; word is that he is a liberal or RINO. Everyone knows that is not the case with McClintock.

You argue that a debate would divide the party - which is quite nicely divided now according to FR and hard-over posters such as you.

I think that every republican debater I've seen, even rep's being flayed by both dem's, the League of Women Voters, AND the alphabet networks, can actually talk, make sense, and remain civil.

Talking means stating your position; see below.

Refusing to even talk with same-party contenders gives some if us pause. I am NOT ready to assume someone is truely my kind of Republican based on your word. And, in that circumstance I'd be far more willing to suggest that Arnie drop out to leave the field to McClintock.