[thoughtomator]

What makes McClintock "unelectable"? Didn't he score more votes than Simon, and for a lesser-known office, and with a pitiful fraction of the money, in the last statewide election?

Or is "unelectable" the RINO euphemism for a conservative who means what he says?

[Wormwood]

I've been pushing that 'unelectable' line myself.

Now I'm not so sure.

I just can't see Tom beating the massive 'aliens for Busta' wave.

What Arnold SHOULD do is step down and name McC as his endorsed candidate.

[Sir Valentino]

What makes McClintock "unelectable"? Didn't he score more votes than Simon, and for a lesser-known office, and with a pitiful fraction of the money, in the last statewide election?

You've *GOT* to be *KIDDING*. What *DIFFERENCE* does it make if McClintock got more votes than *SIMON*? McClintock *LOST* that race to Steve Westly, an *EMPTY SUIT* with *NO* political experience! If McClintock couldn't win an *EASY* race like that, how is he going to win *THIS* one?

McClintock is a proven *LOSER*. Go Arnold!

Every vote for McClintock is a vote for *GOVERNOR BUSTAMANTE*!

[Servant of the Nine]

What makes McClintock "unelectable"? Didn't he score more votes than Simon, and for a lesser-known office, and with a pitiful fraction of the money, in the last statewide election?

Yes, he did, when there was no other Republican on the ballot. In this free-for-all he will be lucky to get 10% because that is all the hard core conservatives the polls show Kalifornia as having.

So9

[sofaman]

Since it needs to be spelled out, CA is a moderate to liberal state. As evidence, I would cite the fact that

1. there are many more registered Democrats than registered Republicans.

2. There are a handful of Republicans in the State House and senate.

3. CA went overwhelmingly for Gore in the last Pres. election.

4. Gray Davis, a horrible governor, easily (yes easily) beat Bill Simon in the last election for Gubernor of CA.

I think it is safe to assume that this (CA) is a moderate to Liberal state.

Based on the evidence, it is quite obvious that a Conservative Republican has zero chance of being elected. The best that can be hoped for, at this stage, is to elect a moderate as Governor in the hope that this person will pull CA out of it's fiscal morass.

A "moderate" is a giant step to the right, considering the likes of Willie Brown, Gray Davis and Cruz Bustamante.

So, as I see it, we can do the following: We can keep bellowing about the "RINO" Schwartzenegger, refuse to vote for him because of our "principles", cast our vote for another "can't win" candidate OR we can decide that we need to win; that we will not, yet again, as a Party shoot ourselves in the foot.

Agree or disagree with Schwartzenegger, it has to be as plain as the nose on your face that he is the only hope that the GOP takes the Governorship in CA. McClintock, conservative though he may be, cannot and will not win.

We have been demonized way too effectively as that. We need a "star" to defeat the demogoguery of the Left, someone that transcends politics, like Fred Thompson and Ronald Reagan. (Yes, I know, Arnold is no Reagan, which is of course missing the point, again.)

[Those_Crazy_Liberals]

"What makes McClintock "unelectable"? Didn't he score more votes than Simon, and for a lesser-known office, and with a pitiful fraction of the money, in the last statewide election? "

Ummmmmmm. . . didn't he also LOSE?

[Hildy]

So what if he means what he says...but doesn't have any power to do any of it. Wake up.