Well, his platform is nice and dandy and honestly I like it my self if you ask me.
Now, if my memory serves me right, the Democrats (not all mind you), have principles as well, but, they have one thing in common that we Republicans fail to understand time and time again;...the "Winning" factor.
They (the Democrats) will gang together, Liberals, Blue Dogs, Reagan Dems etc., swallow their pride hold their noses and...voila, they control the Legislature up and down to the lowest level, while the Republicans are holding their collective principled bags.
If Mr. McClintock is dicking around under the loosing principled mantra, we not only going to end up with that Mexican racist Bustamante but he definitely will put a giant and final nail in his political career for being the one who denied the Republicans a foothold in the California's Governor's Seat (the easiest in a century), a springboard for possible GOP gains in the 2004 and beyond elections.
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NOTE
This election will be decided in SoCal, not in California at large!