You know, I find it interesting that you excoriate McClintock for not being a "team player," but when I suggest Arnold be a "team player" by stepping aside for the more qualified, candidate (who, polls show, is electible), you defend him. I don't hate Arnold. He has every right to pursue his ambition. What I don't like is when a bunch of otherwise good-hearted people are hoodwinked into voting for someone because they are told he represents their only choice. This is, demonstrably, not the case. If everyone who thought McClintock would do the best job as governor voted for him, he would not only win, but win in a
landslide. Californians will deserve exactly what they get. Sadly, with Arnold as governor, it will affect everyone else, as well, for his strategy, as he has said it, is to petition the federal government for more money, and to crack down on waste.
What is waste, to Arnold? On that, he is ambiguous, but based on his admitted "socially liberal" philosophy, it is not what you or I might consider "waste."
The Ca Repub party wants to win,
And if they took their heads out of the sand for two seconds, they would see that this "victory" they will likely get will cost them their heart in the long run. "They" (because it is increasingly questionable whether the CARP and McClintock support the same things) could still win, without Arnold, but since they don't believe it, they cannot convince anyone else that they can win.
Living in Texas it is easy for you to be "pure".
For those of us suffering under the devastation that Davis has brought to this state, we don't have the luxury of taking a chance that either Davis or Busted could win.