McClintock Can't Win? Do the Math Again

Perspicacity & Paradigms Online ^ | October 1, 2003 | Rand Green

[Mia T]

If what you say is true, the clintons would be stumping for Arnold (or at a minimum, remaining neutral on the topic of Arnold), not trying, as they are, to bury him. And they are risking humiliation to do so--not an easy move for the megalomaniac...

The CA election must be very important to the clintons. Indeed, clinton said so himself ("This recall is w-a-a-aay bigger than Gray Davis," he announced during his last visit.)

You and McClintock appear to suffer from the same political rigidity and narrow perspective. Try to think out of the box. Your values... or McClintock's... or mine... will be meaningless if we are all blown to smithereens. Get rational.

[dcwusmc]

Poor you... remember ol' Brer Rabbit... "Please don't throw me in that there briar patch... Please don't throw out my good buddy, Gray, and elect Teddy NoPants's nephew-in-law... Please keep me out of that briar patch, brer Wolf." I don't claim to have personal knowledge of such antics, but it would hardly surprise me... and, IF RINOld is elected, watch who is invited to his inauguration party very carefully indeed. Though it will all be in the name of "bi-partisanship," to be sure!

And I am truly sorry for you if my having values or Tom having principles makes you so uncomfortable. It must be sad to be you.

[Mia T]

It has nothing to do with your values...or Tom's... or mine. It has to do with survival.

[dcwusmc]

Survival? With the liberal agenda fully in place, thanks to you and yours, SURVIVE is what we would barely be able to do... I am voting for FREEDOM and LIVING, not mere SURVIVAL. As I said, I pity you and yours but I wish you the "survival" you seek under the liberals' agenda. If you and your oh-so principle-less WINNERS manage to get RINOld elected Tuesday, I predict that scores of thousands like me will decide that we can no longer LIVE in California and will leave it to you Survivors, for as long as you can keep it. Predictably, not very long, as every liberal pubbie will come crawling out from under their rocks after you and yours open the door for them. Then what? Will you have to keep "compromising" to keep an "electable" (R) somewhere in office, no matter HOW Left he or she is????? Will there EVER come a time for YOU to vote for your principles or will you always be a pragmatic "winner" with no soul left? "Surviving" on the handouts of the Left and always bending the knee (or worse), kissing the hand that slaps you silly...

[mrs tiggywinkle]

**For SHAME... calling RINOld supporters DUMB... It's true, but you are shameful! **

Actually, Saundra Duffy called those who support Schwarzenegger, DUMB. A few of us made light of her ignorant opinion.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

Don't even begin to assume to know me or why I won't be voting for McClintock.

[dcwusmc]

I surely won't do that... I cannot attibute it to principle or values... or words like FREEDOM, LIBERTY and LIMITED GOVERNMENT. Can't attribute your RINOld vote to them, so I won't make assumptions. However, perhaps you should read my posts 271 and 284... It must be sad to be you and have nothing to stand for, which means you'll fall for anything.

[n-tres-ted]

Here's some math for you to contemplate. Tom has lost my vote in this election, and probably in future primaries. And if he is unable to attract my vote, you can be sure he will not win an election in California for a state-wide office. The reason he did not attract my vote is that in 20 years as a politician, he has not shown himself to be such a political leader as to win a statewide vote requiring only a plurality. If Arnold had never entered the race, I seriously doubt Tom would be leading; it would just be someone else. He just doesn't have the leadership skills to attract a broad base of support. I went to an Arnold rally next week and stood next to a Latina woman with her teenage daughter who had driven over an hour to be at the rally at 7:30 AM, and she did so because she is sick of Dem tax and spend policies, when she is working overtime every week trying to support her children as a divorced parent. She is a registered Democrat, but she sees a reason to be confident that she can believe Arnold will actually bring the leadership necessary to bring some fair treatment and understanding to hard working people in her situation.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

You assume much but know little.

[Mia T]

I am talking LITERAL survival. Didn't you ever hear of 911?

The non sequitur may be easy, but it's worthless. I highly recommend a dose of rationality.

[hosepipe]

McClintock can WIN.... not the election... he can win a little honor and respect for republicans in that state.

TO THEMSELVES !...

Other that that the pubbie party in Cali is Doofusville..

[Wheee The People]

One-liners are so much easier than thinking, huh?

Uh, I'm a little slow...How many lines was your brilliant response?

[dcwusmc]

Rationality dictates that we hold fast to our Constitution as our best guarantee of survival as a Nation... and stop looking to government as a security blanket. History shows how shallow and vain a hope THAT is!

[L.N. Smithee]

Uh, I'm a little slow...How many lines was your brilliant response?

one-liner