[churchillbuff]

California voters who have chosen him twice deserve each other, unless and until the voters choose Thatcherite medicine. "

Translation for star-struck Arnold followers: California needs the tough medicine that McClintock is offering.

[churchillbuff]

George Will:

""Only one California candidate, State Sen. Tom McClintock, is, like Thatcher, a ``conviction politician'' prepared to discipline the nanny state. He has a Thatcherite charm deficit but -- perhaps these attributes are related -- determination to summon California, as Thatcher summoned Britain, up from infantilism.

""He has her determination to revive what she called ``the vigorous virtues''-- entrepreneurship, deferral of gratification, individual initiative, personal responsibility in making appetites conform to resources. Together, these aptitudes can be called adulthood.""

[annyokie]

I hope you Tombots don't mind taking your medicine while you watch Busamante being sworn in.

[habs4ever]

Will is just being an intellectual from the comfort of his Maryland den, so he's allowed to be highminded, and wrong.To even compare Tommy McWho to Thatcher is preposterous.

[Saundra Duffy]

Translation for star-struck Arnold followers: California needs the tough medicine that McClintock is offering.

Well put.