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California dreamin':
Ahnold cannot fix
Golden State's mess
Manchester Union Leader ^
| October 6, 2003
| Editorial
Posted on 10/06/2003 3:41:30 AM PDT by billorites
CALIFORNIA holds an election tomorrow to decide whether to recall Gov. Gray Davis. On Wednesday we will be a little glad and a little sad that it's all over. The entry into the race of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gary Coleman and others who have given little thought to serious policy issues and have no business being governor of a state, especially a state that is larger than many nations, has made the race a spectacle worthy of promotion by P.T. Barnum.
But when you get right down to it, the question is a terribly serious one: Who will govern the state of California?
Serious questions require serious answers, and throughout this race the only consistently serious candidate has been state Sen. Tom McClintock. Here is a man who knows about which he speaks, and whose proposed solutions to California's self-imposed crises would actually work.
Californians have spurned serious politicians for years in favor of clowns who promise everything but are capable of delivering nothing. Well, not quite nothing. What they have delivered is fiscal ruin.
We will see tomorrow whether Californians have learned their lesson or whether they continue to fall for the empty promises of charlatans.
TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: recall; schwarzenegger
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posted on
10/06/2003 3:43:34 AM PDT
by
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To: billorites
No, California deserves McClintock! The solution to their mess is as clear as the noses on their faces. Vote for McClintock and California can return to its glory.
A vote for RINOLD assures the ongoing destruction of junk-science environmental laws, higher taxes, lawless illegal immigration, and businesses and white flight leaving in droves.
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posted on
10/06/2003 3:47:05 AM PDT
by
ServesURight
(FReecerely Yours,)
To: billorites
We need two new people in Sacramento - one to figure and fix out the mess (McClintock) and one to throw people through windows (Arnold). Dealing effectively with the Senate/Assembly will be difficult. Good cop/Bad cop is the approach, but the bad cop needs to be top dog.
To: ServesURight
A vote for McClintock, because he cannot win, is a vote for DAVIS / Cruz and the same road to destruction.
To: Impeach the Boy
I propose Arnold hire McClintock to manage the Reconstruction.
To: Fitzcarraldo
I propose Arnold hire McClintock to manage the Reconstruction. Judging by his less-than-stellar performance during the campaign so far (with well-publicized incidents such as Checkboxgate, Wampumgate, and Pizza and Saladgate), I wouldn't trust McClintock to manage a Koolaid stand in the middle of Death Valley.
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posted on
10/06/2003 4:24:57 AM PDT
by
strela
(Will Tom McClintock have to "make a re$ervation" to pay back all that Indian money?)
To: ServesURight
Considering Arnold's attendence at one of the Lay/Enron conferences I think this is more about fixing Enrons problem, not the Golden State's.
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posted on
10/06/2003 4:49:48 AM PDT
by
steve50
(Principles are useless if applied selectively)
To: billorites
Puhleeeeaaaaazzzzzzeeeee!!!! What a pantload of crapola. To lump Arnold in with Gary Coleman is as dishonest a slumping Gray Davis in with the stripper.
If the paper wants to endorse McClintock, I think they could find a better argument for doing so simply implying that Arnold and Gary are equivalent candidates.
This "endorsement" is so bad, even McClintock should ignore it.
To: billorites
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To: billorites
Unfortunately, regardless of who wins, they're still going to have to deal with a RAT California Legislature,let us not forget that important fact! We may be cutting off the head, but the beast will still reside,entrenched in Sacramento.I've been waiting to say that for a while.And Vote For Tom McClintock!
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posted on
10/06/2003 12:42:12 PM PDT
by
Pagey
(Hillary Rotten is a Smug, Holier - Than - Thou Socialist)
To: Pagey
REALITY BUMP!
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posted on
10/06/2003 12:42:39 PM PDT
by
Pagey
(Hillary Rotten is a Smug, Holier - Than - Thou Socialist)
To: billorites
Tom McClintock. Here is a man who knows about which he speaks, and whose proposed solutions to California's self-imposed crises would actually work. Amen.
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posted on
10/06/2003 12:43:53 PM PDT
by
Saundra Duffy
(For victory & freedom!!!)
To: billorites
Someone needs to post an image from "The Simpsons" of Schwarzenegger-parody character Rainier Wolfcastle. "McBAIN!!!!"
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posted on
10/06/2003 3:36:53 PM PDT
by
pogo101
To: billorites
The democratic Legislature governs California with a hammer and sickle.
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posted on
10/06/2003 3:49:57 PM PDT
by
Weimdog
To: billorites
gimme a break, this paper is from NH not cali - maybe McClintock can win in NH, but in Cali, not a snowball chance in hell.
Maybe cali voters can give McC a ticket to NH and run for office there. LOL
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posted on
10/06/2003 3:54:49 PM PDT
by
FRgal4u
To: FRgal4u
"maybe McClintock can win in NH, but in Cali..."That's alright. We'll take him.
California doesn't deserve him.
Besides, he'd probably fit right in here with that Free-Stater crowd.
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posted on
10/06/2003 4:43:41 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
Arnold will be way too busy fending off lawsuits from past behavior. It will now be safe for the Taliban to move into California, because the Governor will be too busy fending off recall, impeachment, and hungry trial lawyers.
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posted on
10/06/2003 5:56:57 PM PDT
by
Russell Scott
(On the rampage, skewering sacred cows, without regard for religious or political views.)
To: Russell Scott
R-nulled may have to bomb a condom factory in Oakland or something, to divert attention from the scandals.
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posted on
10/06/2003 10:19:41 PM PDT
by
TERMINATTOR
((R)nold's like a chrome plated Yugo - all show and no go! McClintock for Governor of California!)
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