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Cinnamon Girl: LOL about the spitting comment hahaha :D Thanks for the chuckle!!!

About who to get behind... these are two names I think Republicans could consider that have merit.

A conservative - Tom McClintock: Anti-car tax hero, fiscal genius, articulate speaker, popular with the base. Top GOP vote-getter in the last election. One drawback: he has trouble raising money.

A moderate/conservative - Matt Fong: Former California State Treasurer. A fiscal genius, affable/amiable personality. Does really well with the Asian community both in votes and fund raising (they are very loyal). Drawback is that he is squishy on abortion and not perfect on some other conservative issues.

I like different things about each candidate. I might prefer McClintock but I guess my point is that if we had to "settle" for Fong I could live with him, whereas I could not live with Riordan who seems at war with conservatives. McClintock would certainly carry the conservative banner on a number of issues quite proudly.

I am actually not too picky about who the GOP nominee is - with a few exceptions - I just happened to name the two above since they are probably my own personal favorites from the two camps. McClintock is probably my favorite GOPer that conservatives would most like and Fong is probably my favorite GOPer that the moderates would push even though I don't consider him a "moderate" in the way that most people who say they are "moderate" usually are -which is anti-conservative.

My main goal is to make sure that we stop allowing corrupt politicians to misuse government and engage in complete corruption and deception while they destroy the state and then are not held accountable because no one goes after them for their lies, deception, malfeasance or corruption.

This recall effort provides an opportunity to really "push back" in the other direction and show that you cannot mistreat citizens and face no reprisals.

As for me mentioning McClintock and Fong - please don't criticize me mentioning them. I am not advocating any particular candidate, I just think they are attractive options to consider from the two wings of the party and if I had to I would find either to be preferable to Mr. Davis. I'll let the rest of you fight it out as to WHO should be the GOP candidate to line up behind and I will listen intently.

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Personally, I don't have a big problem with either Fong or McClintock (the latter of whom SHOULD'VE won his race had the AIP not incredibly fielded a candidate of total ideological similarity... Usually, it's the Libertarians that screw us out of races (witness OR Gov), but in the case of McClintock, it was solely the AIP to blame). However, in the case of Fong, he was an astonishingly bad campaigner and just crumbled at the mere presence of Boxer, and that is not what we need. I miss Asian Republicans of the like of Sam Hayakawa, who boldly once yanked a bullhorn away from some Communist punk on the Berkeley campus (and Hayakawa, I believe, was a diminutive gentleman) and told them off. That's cajones. McClintock, as you said, will have a money problem -- namely, Gerald "the Pr!ck" Parsky, RINO supremo, won't pony up the dough for his Conservative candidacy (I doubt he'd do the same for moderate Fong). Nope, Parsky is waiting to back his guy again, and his guy is Tricky Dick Riordan. He'll argue that Tricky Dick has crossover appeal -- well, of course he does, he's a thinly-disguised Liberal 'Rat (think Mike Bloomberg). If Tricky Dick wants to be Governor so bad, let him run as a 'Rat.