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To: discostu
Let's say you're correct. Does that matter? Shouldn't conservatives fight like hell anyway for a conservative, instead of being defeatists who will fall in line with a Leftist celebrity simply because he's had his face on a screen?

This whole thing makes me sick; and the thing that makes me the sickest is how some conservatives surrender without a shot being fired.

If Schwarzenegger wins this, it will do nothing but empower the abortionists and the Leftists who want your guns and anything else they can get their hands on.
128 posted on 08/08/2003 7:57:48 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
Conservatives should fight like to move the situation to the right. The most important part of that is to fight winnable battles. I see pushing for a guy like McClintock (whom I respect and think he'd do a great job if by some unimaginable miracle he could win) as similar to Market-Garden in WWII (immortalized in the book and movie A Bridge Too Far), had Market-Garden worked it would have ended WWII in a couple weeks, problem is Market-Garden couldn't work it was the wrong plan for the terrain and the battlefield; and in order to support Market-Garden we had to put the brakes on Patton's southern push which could have ended the war in a month or so. Because we put all the assets behind a plan that looked great but was doomed to failure the war dragged on longer than it would have, the Arden counter offensive happened, and we lost thousands more soldiers than we would have if we'd made Montie take that damn harbor and shorten the supply line.

This is the planning stage, this is when you're supposed to "surrender" bad plans without a shot being fired, if shots are fired the plan is already in action and now you're stuck with it.

If Schwarzenegger wins this we get an R in the top statewide office in the most populated state in the union. It also give the GOP a friendly respectedface regularly talking politics, somebody that backs Bush, backs the War on Terror and backs fiscal responsibility, and has millions of fans, and he gets to speak from the podium of an elected official not some Hollywood goof overstepping his bounds. No pro-life candidate is going to win a statewide election in California for at least 10 years so you'd better get used to that, first you've got to change the mind of the populace then you elect leaders that reflect those value. Sadly pro-life doesn't reflect the current values of California.
130 posted on 08/08/2003 8:10:39 AM PDT by discostu (the train that won't stop going, no way to slow down)
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