You are right that this is the risk. And if this comes to pass, we'll have to fight the spread of moderate-liberals in the party. But I'd rather fight this scenario than see California eviscerated by La Raza Man.
If we are to get more conservative WINNING candidates in CA, we face the daunting task of getting more conservative voters in the state - even the oddball dynamics of the recall election don't change this. Early in the recall process, there was the scenario of a single true conservative going against a fragmented liberal base. But even in this situation, the winner wouldn't have had a winning mandate. He wouldn't have the club needed to beat back down the hyper-leftist legislature.
So the task for us California Conservatives is as follows: Get more conservative voters in the state. As far as I can see it, this can only come about by 3 methods:
FR has the first base covered, I'll invite any Texans to experience the excellent outdoors life to cover base 2, and regarding the final one, well, my FR mailbox is open and waiting....
Only slightly more likely than Tom Metzger taking over -- and that beauce of the condescending attitudes of liberals to "minorities".
But Shriver, RFK Jr and others are real and experieced. They know machine poltics and are not conservative.
Liberals do not want Cruz Bustamante to win the California Governorship. He is supposed to be seen and not heard and have no power whatsoever.
He will throw the dems in disarray if he wins.
There is no La Raza power base or power elite. To the extent there is even any "latino" politcal base it is as an adjunct of the liberal left mainstream dems and Dolores Huerta and Anotnio Viilaraigosa are good examples of that. Huerta did not even want to be seen with Bustamante ealrier this month so bitter and lon standing are their differences.
But, to the extent the rolly polly Fresno hick Bustamante has a power base I would love to see them go head to head with the Hollywood Marin country hub of power that dominates the state.
Schwarzenegger is in and of this latter Hollywood elite nexus. He may be more Santa Barbara than Marin, but he poses no threat to their power at all.
Bustamante can cause civil war in the dems.
This is why recall is paramount but Schwarzenegger is a fly in the ointment.
Simon, McClintock and Schwarzenegger should have let Issa take it. It would have been a show down between him and Davis.
Bustamante was never supposed to be in this position nor be governor ever.
The numbers bear this out. His numbers are below those against recall. Mainstream dems do not support him.
He is not part of the elite and never has been. In no way does this mean he is good or on our side.
But the problem is, Schwarzenegger isn't on our side either. He is with the Hollywood media elite -- that's all he knows literally and figuratively.
He came up, out, and in that way. That's all he knows except for also knowing the Kennedy way.
He poses no threat whatsoever to the democract elite and their power base.