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Wrong.
McClintock KNOWS he can't win. He is in the race for the specific purpose to ELECT BUSTAMANTE. His own words damn him.
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"Burton, one of the more conservative members of Congress, also said McClintock had seemed to suggest that it would be acceptable for a Democrat to hold the governor's office, because he might create a clamor for a Republican in 2006.
He said McClintock had drawn a historical parallel to the 1980 presidential election, when Republican Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, en route to a two-term presidency.
"I was saying I hated to see the Democrats and especially Gray Davis keep control, and Bustamante may want to give California back to Mexico — I said that tongue in cheek," Burton said, referring to the incumbent Davis and to Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante. "And he said we had four years of Jimmy Carter and eight years of Ronald Reagan and that was a fair exchange. And the implication was maybe that leaving the Democrats in would show that they can't govern properly."
And look at McC's other actions: he is ignoring all the pleadings from his fellow Republicans, including the CA GOP, and other conservatives, he is taking indidan gambling money -- which is given with the specific purpose of splitting the vote, since they are major contributors to Bustamante ---, he never attacks Davis and Bustamante, but continuously attacks his fellow Republican.
Enough with your sub-hearsay evidence. Burton has never come off as a serious individual, and you should be embarassed for having to use him as a character witness against McClintock. Herschensohn, however, is something else altogether. He is the towering chief prophet of California conservatism. His endorsement of Tom by itself far outweighs and far overshadows all the scores of pigmy political hacks who have dutifully and predictably jumped on Arnold's wagon.