Interesting comments when I was only posing a question and not slamming Arnold.
I think you might be a little too emotional about this and in need of taking a few steps back to consider the problem should it arise.
IF he did pull out as you would all like him to and then a bombshell got dropped against arnold their would be NO viable republican candidates.
Before you go spewing you need to take a hard look at whether you really want him to pull out of the race or not.
64 posted on 09/29/2003 11:36 AM PDT by Bikers4Bush
I've been through six weeks of the McClintock camp using one excuse or another to keep their man in the race. I liked McClintock's platform early on, and still do. I agreed that he should get a debate appearance in to be fair, so I bought into the McClintock line to a point. When I agreed to that I thought the one debate would take place on 09/17, not 09/22. I defended him staying in until the voting started by absentee ballot on 09/08. After that I became increasingly critical of his ability to become the spoiler. Collecting votes when you can't win is a defeatest strategy if you seriously want Democrats out of office.
Now it's 09/29. The Recall Election is eight days away and Tom is still sewing up absentee ballots. Now the excuse isn't he might spark or he'll mop the floor with Schwarzenegger in a debate, it's that Schwarzenegger might be damaged the day before the election. At each step of this process there has been an excuse. I'm sick and tired of the excuses.
Tom has done his damage now. He's taken 25-35% of his vote potential and locked them up. He'll get die-hard votes in about the same quantity on election day even if he withdraws now. It's just too damned late in the election cycle.
Tom has burned every bit of good-will I ever had for him. I like his platform to a tee. There isn't any of it I dislike. Tom isn't going to be elected. If he can't see this and be honest with himself at this point, Tom is too flawed to be supported in the future. I will not support him again unless he wins a primary and my choice is between him and a democrat far less dangerous than the one he may be ushering in at this moment.