[ambrose]

Why don't the RINOs "compromise" for a change and vote for Tom?

There's a clear double standard when it comes to compromise, at least insofar as the RINOs are concerned.

Remember how they ran an independent candidate with the sole purpose of causing the defeat of Oliver North?

[buwaya]

Simple - because the bulk of the Arnold supporters would not go to McClintock, certainly not enough to give him a victory. Many would go to Bustamante.

McClintock supporters are most unlikely to go to Bustamante, but a substantial fraction would go to Arnold.

[Roscoe]

There's a clear double standard when it comes to compromise, at least insofar as the RINOs are concerned.

Always.

[EDINVA]

"THEY" who ran the independent to cause the defeat of Ollie North was none other than the "Honorable" John Warner. At the GOP Victory party in Fairfax County on election night 94, when GOP took both House and Senate, even tho Ollie DID lose, Warner was roundly boo'd. Couldn't have happened to a better guy.

[pogo101]

I don't have a principled answer to that question. I think that (what you call) "RINOs" could and should vote for the more conservative candidate at times too. But when it's 11 days 'til the election, nothing terribly new is likely to come out, all the positions are known,

and one of the two candidates has double the support of the other,

the party should get behind the leader, IMO. Too bad there's not a primary here. Then we (on FR, anyway) could all get behind McClintock.

[kingu]

Why don't the RINOs "compromise" for a change and vote for Tom?

We voted for Bill Simon and we lost. Bill now supports Arnold. We compromised last time on the Governorship. It's your turn. Even Bill agrees.