Schwarzenegger: McClintock a Pawn of Pro-Bustamante Indians

NewsMax ^ | Spet. 19, 2003 | Carl Limbacher

[FairOpinion]

American Indians who are supporting Democrat front-runner Cruz Bustamante in California are also promoting Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock, and GOP front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger is furious.

"I think that as far as Tom McClintock is concerned, I think the question I have for him is, what side is he on?" Schwarzenegger said Thursday. "Is he on the side of the Republicans? Does he represent the Republicans, or does he represent Bustamante?"

Schwarzenegger suggested that the tribes were abetting Bustamante by trying to split the Republican vote.

"They are financing his commercials and TV spots and all that," said Schwarzenegger, who doesn't take money from Indian tribes. "He knows they're financing him not because they want him to be governor. They just want to interfere with the process so that Bustamante wins. He has to decide which side is he on, the Republicans' or Bustamante's."

McClintock called Schwarzenegger's comments "a ridiculous statement by a man who obviously hasn't paid much attention to California public affairs. ... For 20 years, I have fought to protect sovereignty on reservation lands, well before there was gaming.

"If they wanted to hurt Schwarzenegger, they would be making an independent expenditure to hurt Schwarzenegger, and Lord knows there's plenty they could hurt him with."

Assemblyman John Benoit, R-Palm Desert, a Schwarzenegger supporter, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise: "I think the idea of divide and conquer is a tried and true tactic. I can't speak for the Indians, but if there was somebody looking to help Bustamante, this would be the way to do it."

[strela]

Schwarzenegger not only takes money from people who give Hillary Clinton money, but he calls some of them close friends and mentors.

(*YAWN*)

More long-on-accusations and short-on-facts hyperbole from you - not surprising. The point is that you and the other Tombots have canonized McClintock and hold him up to be the uber-Republican's uber-Republican Boy Scout. And you are falling all over your own schwanzes to avoid explaining why "Mr. Clean" is suddenly taking money from the same people who gave megabucks to Gray Davis' campaign in return for political favors.

McClintock and Davis are two hogs feeding from the exact same trough. And for you to continue to bluster, bloviate, and deny this fact when it is presented to you is pathetic.

[BigBobber]

Care to address the next sentence in my post?

[68 grunt]

Absolutely!

[EternalVigilance]

While your boy feeds at the Warren 'buffet'...

[Saundra Duffy]

yada yada yada - this is all Schwarzekennedy can come up with to try and hurt McClintock. How stupid of them to think that we loyal supporters of McClintock will fall for this crap.

By the way, Schwarzenkennedy is coming to Fresno later this month for a FUNDRAISER at the home of rich man Bob Smittcamp. In attendance will be SPECIAL INTEREST money bags from the agricultural industry. Schwarzenkennedy is a HYPOCRITE!!

McClintock is the ONLY conservative in this race.

Schwarzenkennedy will destroy this state with his liberal policies and democrat cronies.

Come to your senses, people, before it's too late.

www.helptom.com

[Republican Wildcat]

The effort to change the subject by other posters has already failed. Why do you think your effort will be any more successful?

[Roscoe]

The independent expenditure that has Arnold's groupies frothing at the mouth was made in behalf of a conservative Republican running against a leftwing RINO.

[68 grunt]

Dear sir, or madam, I consider you to be a disruptor. I do not ever read anything you write that is over one line. I do take enjoyment and entertainment from people ridiculing you.

[SteveH]

Care to address the next sentence in my post?

Yeah, I'll bite. I thought it was Arnold supporters who were the quintessential pragmatists in these discussions. What do you want now, turn back the clock? The Indians are part of the current political landscape, probably to stay. So one could say, grow up and learn to deal with it, but b*tching and moaning about it is not constructive...

;-)

[strela]

While your boy feeds at the Warren 'buffet'...

"Your boy." More playground taunts instead of reasoned debate. Typical from a McWampum supporter.

My calling a spade a spade (or in this case McClintock a 'Rat) must really hurt, huh?

[68 grunt]

Yeah, how come I all of the sudden hear so many crickets chirping from the Arnold supporter camp?

Good question. If I may, it is because we have risen above you. You identify yourself with your every post. I urge you to continue.

[EternalVigilance]

Any reasonable person here already knows who the RATs are in this little morality play--and Tom McClintock isn't one of them.

[Republican Wildcat]

Schwarzenkennedy is a HYPOCRITE!!

Please provide the source for their support of Bustamente. Sounds like you have something here, and if you provide the evidence to substantiate it, then your argument will be stronger.

[Roscoe]

I do not ever read anything you write that is over one line.

Wouldn't want you to strain yer brain.

SteveH's post 107 stomped ya flat.

[strela]

Any reasonable person here already knows who the RATs are in this little morality play

True. Which is why the voters will not sign Tom McClintock's suicide pact and will vote for Schwarzenegger in their millions.

[SteveH]

Spoke too soon about the crickets, evidently. Some stragglers still out there, apparently, now using McC supporters for target practice, I guess, since they can't argue the McClintock-Indian special interest any more...

(Obligatory sheesh, "big time" ;-)

[68 grunt]

Darn it. You ran 'em all off.

Which is, of course, your goal.

[Roscoe]

Facts are the natural enemies of Arnold's supporters.

[68 grunt]

He's another I don't bother with. What'd he say?

[Roscoe]

Spoke too soon about the crickets, evidently.

They aren't addressing your post and the facts, they're just going through their routine of trying to shout down discussion.