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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.

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And, in that circumstance I'd be far more willing to suggest that Arnie drop out to leave the field to McClintock.

No thank you. One experience with a Bill Simon-type defeat is quite enough for me. It's either McClintock drops out, or I will pray that the recall vote fails and leaves Gray Davis. Your guy is a proven loser, despite liberal-media-pumped "polls". If he stays in, Bustamante will be the next Governor.

I see you evaded my point about how this is NOT a primary. Do you people realize that less than 4 weeks now remain until the GENERAL election, and there are TWO GOP candidates? T.R. took on Taft and we got Woodrow Wilson, the philisophical predecessor to Neville Chamberlain and Jimmy Carter.

Now McClintock takes on Arnold and we will get Bustamante, the precursor to Aztlan--racial choas and destruction in America.