Posted on 08/26/2003 8:40:21 PM PDT by Recourse
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (CNN) --With one recent poll showing actor Arnold Schwarzenegger falling behind Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante in California's gubernatorial recall race, some top Republicans are urging other GOP candidates to drop out of the race.
Businessman Bill Simon, the GOP nominee against Gov. Gray Davis last year, dropped out over the weekend. But Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock says he's in the race for good. McClintock, in Sacramento, California, spoke with CNN's Judy Woodruff on Tuesday. The following is an edited transcript.
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Let's all do the Dialectical Leap! 
"We must embrace and expand upon the contradictions of the Worker's Paradise exploiting workers, for only in the inherent contradictions will the glorious Dialectical Materialist leap take place!"
I want why McClintonock only trashes Arnie on cable channels and doesn't trash Cruz
Cap, how the hell do you know Arnold?...did He confess to you that he is going to sandbag the conservatives?...how did you come to that conclusion, without given the man the benefit of the doubt, to present his case.
You see people like you, jumping in conclusions without on hand facts will definitely ruin our chances to have a shot at the Gov's position, not to mention put the Republican Party in a better lime light, than baby killers, feeding grand ma's dog food etc.
Sit down, have a stiff drink, or two and...
A typical exchange with an Arnold supporter:
We have to vote for Arnold. Only he can win! Look at the polls!!
But his support is dropping, while Tom's numbers are rising in the polls.The polls are faked!!!
Arnold has NO experience working with a legislature, much less the California legislature. Arnold is a political dilettante whose contribution so far is support for a feelgood "for the children" proposition. McClintock, by contrast, actually pushed the vehicle tax reduction through the California state legislature, so he has a track record of at least some success there-- not to mention that it is in the right direction (less government, less taxation, less regulation).
I'd like to point out that Arnold did not even bother to call McClintock after he muscled into the race... I would think at least a courtesy call would have been appropriate... maybe Arnold was too busy sucking up to east coast liberals to give the Calif. Republican legislator that practically wrote the book on how to reduce California government bloat the time of day. I've been in that situation before. It is not pleasant. If Arnold wants to win fiscal conservative support, he should start in his own newfound backyard. I have to believe Arnold is avoiding McClintock for very good reasons... such as, apparently, he is a phony and a "Trojan horse" liberal, and he apparently has nothing to gain by talking to McClintock either in public or in private. Now that's got to set off some warning bells even among the most sonambulent of Arnold-bots in this forum.
If Arnold truly wants to succeed at being governor of California, he needs McClintock a lot more than McClintock needs him. Instead, Arnold recruits Buffett and Lowe. As if an out-of-state rich liberal and a Hollywood rich liberal knows squat about how to manuever California government back to fiscal sanity. Arnold as governor will be so hounded once in office, the only thing he will be good for will be as a liberal punching bag. That would conflict with his ego, so I don't see much that would prevent him from changing his spots once in office. Any Arnold-bots consider that scenario?
Eloquent but a bit short of substance. Let me guess, I take it you are an Arnold supporter?
Actually if you had read the CNN transcript (you can read, yes?) McC was responding to interviewer Woodruff's leading questions, all but one of which dealt with the presumption that McC should quit.
Now tell me who is being led by whom, when the Arnold bots seem to play into the CNN spin, picking up where CNN left off and attempting to pressure McC supporters away, and don't even offer a peep about how Woodruff/CNN saved the question about what McC's platform was until they were practically out of time.
Sheesh...
I've commented before on how the liberal media is manipulating conservatives away from conservative candidates and towards Republican moderates... who they then have no compunctions trashing with extreme prejudice once the conservatives are shooed offstage. (No html ptr this time, I am tired, do a search.)
Doesn't anyone realize how this game is played, every election time? Anyone still awake out there? ;-)
We're being herded towards a cliff...
When talking about the governorship he talks about Davis, but has little to say about Bustamante.
Logic should tell him that trashing Arnold will infuriate Arnold's supporters, and he needs their votes. He knows that a whole lot of Republicans are supporting Arnold.
It does make me think he is not running this race to win. It is very strange.
A more appropiate marker is the Dim will get 35-40% due to the Dim robot effect. So to beat that you need someone other than McClintock.
Principal is fine, winning is better. Having a seat at the table sure beats sitting in a phone booth.
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