Please post these polls.
(Not the ones that include all 3 in them. I want to see other polls that say if Arnold gets out McClintock would lose. I haven't seen any. Just the Gallup poll that suggests Tom would kill Bustamonte.)
I think we need some disclosure here from the people who simply won't vote for Tom because he's too conservative for them. Because what I keep hearing is, "Well Arnold's the only one who can beat Cruz." But the only poll that's investigated that scenario shows otherwise.
So my question is--regardless of how you're actually going to vote----if you could "wave your magic wand," who do you wish would win."
If you really want Arnold--that's fine.
If you want Tom, but have been convinced that he can't win--that's fine too (see my previous arguments).
But until I see evidence to the contrary, I have to assume that the Gallup Poll is correct and Tom McClintock would beat Cruz Bustamonte in a one-on-one match-up. Which means...
If we want the most conservative and best suited (those are two different sets of criteria) person to win the Governorship--then Arnold should get out of the race and let Tom win.
For some reason, despite the protests to the contrary, I have a feeling that's not what these Arnold-only-because-he-can-win people want.
And for the record, I don't consider myself some superior moralist for voting for Tom. I consider myself able to read the political tea leaves and see the bigger picture. I am not falling on my sword or dying on any hill. I am simply not going to hand the Republican Party over to the liberal-moderate wing for--who knows how long?
Have you thought about that? Arnold (+ Maria) will load the government bureaucracy with libs and moderates and there will be no room for conservatives or libertarian free thinkers for a long time to come.
Consider my bastardization of what Truman used to say, "Anytime you put a Democrat up against a Democrat, the Democrats win every time."
The whole point of my initial post was to generate discussion and provoke thought.
That has been achieved.
Vote your heart--and your head. They can be one in the same.
All the best...