[snopercod]

IBD offices are in Los Angeles.

[EllaMinnow]

His speech is live on FOX now.

[BigBobber]

IBD. Just another leftist liberal group for Arnold. The sell-outs! </sarcasm>

[DoughtyOne]

More absentee ballots continue to be cast for Tom McClintock today.

As much as 7-9% of the total vote may be  locked away for McClintock
before 70% of the populace votes to elect Schwarzenegger or Bustamante.

If McClintock pulls out three days before the election
2-4% more votes will go to him anyway.

Thus 9 to 13% of the vote may be stashed away by a man who cannot win.

Let's have a big round of applause for Senator Tom McClintock.

[Sabertooth]

How many Americans, let alone politicians, can set a better example for California's large and growing immigrant population?

They say Schwarzenegger has no experience in Sacramento. We say hallelujah. What's needed there now is new, positive thinking based on real-world experience and common sense.

In a poll this week, 59% of Californians are opposed to giving valid California Drivers' Licenses to Illegal Aliens.

Arnold says that he agrees with the majority, but won't support a referendum giving them a chance to overturn the SB60 legislation in the March primary.

Arnold has offered no specific plan to oppose the CDLs for Illegals, and has also said that he want's to legalize the Illegals and give them the licenses anyway.

This is common sense?

[Congressman Billybob]

Every now and again, the editorial writers for a major publication manage to write a statement of opinion that is clear, concise, and thoughtful. This is one of those times. Kudos to the editorial staff of the IBD.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Paying the Wrong Piper," discussion thread on FR. Article is also on ChronWatch.

[NormsRevenge]

There is a certain hollowness to some of the arguments used in this editorial that are disturbing to say the least. Just my opinion.

I won't belabor critiquing it in depth as all those arguments go on incessantly here everyday on other threads and I wouldn't want to rain on the moderate parade that is being championed here.

[AmericaUnited]

What do you expect from someone who's spent his entire adult life in state government — and in mostly second-rung jobs at that?

I expect Tom McClintock... a politician

[BunnySlippers]

I was an institutional equities trader for William O'Neil for over 8 years here in LA. (still am one but for another firm) He started IBD. He is conservative as they get. I'm glad he's endorsing Arnold.

[Russell Scott]

That's because Arnold will protect special interests, Tom won't. So don't expect too many endorsements for Tom, he isn't interested in showing favors. Its all about me, me, me, instead of what's best for the sheeple. Maybe they will see the light before election day and vote for Tom.

What is amazing is McClintock is the kind of candidate everybody claims they want to elect. Won't break promises, isn't slick and smooth, doesn't compromise his principles for a special interest buck, etc. So then the dream candidate is here, the one everybody claims they want, and people say "he can't win." Sad, sad, sad, letting the elite media keep brainwashing you into voting for a compelete slickster, the prototype politician you claim you can't stand, and you foam at the mouth for him.

[pointsal]

hog wash!!! Arnie.....is just a tool for the East Coast fat-cats that have SCREWED the California Republican Party for two decades....Get lost. I'm staying with McClintock.

[BibChr]

Really excellent editorial.

If you've not read it, you'll be tempted to excerpt just about every paragraph. Well-written, well-reasoned, good stuff.

Dan

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[Tax Government]

I also call on McClintock to step aside and let Arnold win.

People who fault Arnold do so because they disagree with one or another of his positions. The important thing about Arnold is he has the intelligence to preside over a debate, and not reflexively echo a party platform. I get the feeling that he has the capacity to be an honest participant in a discussion, and even change his mind. Isn't that what you'd value, even more than having a candidate who agreed with you on a list of specific issues?

[South40]

The lieutenant governor, Cruz Bustamante, may not be as venal. But he's every bit as dull and perhaps even less competent.

All the more reason we need to do whatever necessary to keep the slug from becoming governor.

[Hollywoodghost]

We must work harder to get Arnold's message out. The bickering must stop if the state is going to survive. Tom has to give it up and bow out now. That or the state will roll into a sea or debt.

[BibChr]

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