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McClintock is a perfect example of those Reagan called "radical conservatives".

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"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.

"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.

"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'

"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

--- Ronald Reagan

Rodger Hedgecock just said the same thing when McC compared himself to Ronald Reagan. You could tell in Hedgecock's voice that he couldn't believe what he was hearing. I know I couldn't.

Have lived all over this Country and been around a number of Air Force bases so the communities I have lived in have been conservative and mostly Republican. In all those years of working in the trenches in Republican politics, I have never encountered an candidate that was so arrogant or condescending not to want to reach out to voters from all different groups when he was running for office. McC's approach of agreeing with a candidate 100% or not supporting that candidate is unbelieveable to me!

What I heard on the radio a short time ago makes McC too far right to get elected in Oklahoma. He is farther right than a far right candidate who happened to be Buchanan's campaign manager in 1988. That candidate lost in the Republican primary because he kept saying he was the "true" conservative in the race when the other candidate was also conservative and Oklahoma conservatives didn't like it either. That "true" conservative candidate lost the primary and then pouted with a lot of his supporters all the way through the general election, some stayed home, and almost cost J.C.'s seat to go to the DemocRATs.