What I will not do is vote for a pro-abortion pro gun control candidate. If there is no anti abortion candidate and no pro gun candidate, I do not vote.
I know that in Ohio people with my exact views represent 12 percent of the voters. I think it may be as high as 8 percent in California. If it is, then the chance of recalling Davis is at best a tie if McClintock pulls out.
What many foolish moderates believe is that men like McClintock lead people like me... They do not. They follow people like me. And if McClintock pulls out, and if McClintok pulls out and endorces Arnold McClintocks supporters will not vote for Arnold or anyone else. That is the name of that tune. It is the way the game works. That is why candidates have to sew up the right before appealing to the center. Arnie was way too dumb to know that.
It is real simple. When conservatives have a horse in the race they vote. When they don't have they don't vote.
Got that? We only have 74 years of unbroken history to prove it.
The right don't care what an withdrawn candidate says they should vote for. They don't listen to what some pressurized leader says.
Aww shucks. I was snippy with you on a tech thread yesterday, and here you go making me agree with you on a political thread today. I hereby recind yesterday's snippiness. You're absolutely correct on this one.
I have no doubt that you are correct and much of the Right will sit out the recall if McClintock bows out. This would likely cause Davis to escape the recall. I can even see that it might be preferable to have Bustamente replace Davis if you thought those were the only 2 outcomes, but I'm confused about something.
In PA there is a contentious Republican primary race for the US Senate. If Specter defeats Toomey in the primary would you advocate that the Right stay home during the general election? I ask this because you have in the past extolled the importance of RINOs in keeping the Republican majorities.