[traditionalist]

Any Republican that supports McC for another race in his lifetime is no Republican IMHO! McC is out to destroy the Republican chances in the Recall for his own personal gain.

I doubt Arnold would win even if McC were not in the race. Furthermore, even if he did win, I fail to see what good he would do. Arnold has demonstrated his political incompetence. That, coupled with a lack of popular mandate and a hostile legislature guarantees his governorship will be a failure, which in the long run would hurt the CA GOP worse than loosing the recall.

Keeping Arnold out is the best thing anyone can do for the CA GOP right now. McClintock is doing us a big service, IMHO.

[BonnieJ]

He reminds me more & more of McCain. He can't let go of his new feeling of power & fame even though he gets it at great cost to his party. In the past could he possibly even begin to imagine almost nightly being on CNN,Fox, CNBC, MSBCS, the networks, plus the subject of numerous columns in major newspapers, the topic of debate on many panels, radio programs, internet forums, polls everywhere, etc? It's an overwhelming experience to a guy who spent 20+ years with minimal success in state government. And it now seems unlikely he can look past the euphoria of fame and "importance" to see reality, to see the future, and to let it all go. Unfortunately.

[bootyist-monk]

Thank you, traditionalist, for sacrificing all of us Californians with this brilliant political strategy.

By your reasoning, we should all be supporting Howard Dean for president, because after he taxes all the money out of our bank-accounts, socializes medicine, destroys the economy, opens the borders, runs foreign policy based on what the UN and French dictate to us and allows a few of our cities to be nuked, the American people will finally be ready for a true leader like Pat Buchanan.

Pure genius.

[A CA Guy]

"I doubt Arnold would win even if McC were not in the race."

B.S. Denial is a river in Egypt for you as well I guess? LOL
NO, McClintock is acting as an enemy of the Republican party at this point and Arnold is a lock without McClintock, especially if he suggested his folks vote for Arnold as he withdrew.

As a matter of fact, at this point, the only possible future Tom can salvage in the Republican party is if he soon drops out and IN ADDITION backs Arnold and campaigns for him. Otherwise his future in California Politics is about as bright as Gary Condit's! LOL Tom has become an ego driven joke.