[Saundra Duffy]

I hope this isn't a duplicate posting. Go, McClintock! www.helptom.com

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[The Old Hoosier]

[u]nless something happens to give Bustamante a tremendous boost, McClintock can’t possibly be a spoiler. So no one who in their heart of hearts would really rather cast a vote for McClintock than for Schwarzenegger needs to worry about being the cause of a Republican defeat if they vote their conscience. Arnold backers should just lay off the guilt trip, because it is without basis.

[nickcarraway]

Some people are afraid to have a fiscal conservative in charge of California.

[Wheee The People]

Ahhhhh the sweet taste of Kool-aid. Drink it, it's good for you, said Jim Jones....

[w1andsodidwe]

I do not believe I have heard a single Republican supporter of Mr. Scharzenegger declare that he is the best qualified candidate or the preferred choice; only that he is the most electable.

Actually many Schartzenegger supporters believe that he will be able to better build a consensus to govern. Tom McClintock has never shown a willingness to compromise and that will be needed when faced with so many demonRATS in the state legislator. That said, I do believe that Tom would make a fine governor and would vote for him if Arnold was not in the race.

[lilylangtree]

Termite the Gropinator reminds one of Bubba Clintoon and Bob Packwood. Another one of those creeps in office scares the bejesus out of anyone. So go Tom go!

[Sabertooth]

Again, let’s run the numbers. Clear, straightforward math.

Currently the polls show: Schwarzenegger, 40 percent. Bustamante, 25 percent. McClintock, 18 percent. Now follow me. Forty plus 18 equals 58. Combined, the Republican candidates beat Bustamante by well over two to one.

Suppose McClintock comes within one point of overtaking Bustamante but can’t quite pull over the top. We can assume that any McClintock gains are likely to come from Schwarzenegger voters, not Bustamante voters. So that would put McClintock at 24 percent, Bustamante at 25 percent, and Schwarzenegger at 34 percent, still the victor by a whopping nine point margin.

If McClintock gains eight points, enough to put him ahead of Bustamante by a point, that still leaves Schwarzenegger with 32 percent of the vote and an impressive seven point margin of victory.

Think what a well-deserved embarrassment that would be for the Democrats to have not one but two Republican candidates get more votes than the lieutenant governor.

You see, unless something happens to give Bustamante a tremendous boost, McClintock can’t possibly be a spoiler.

There's your math.

[ilsalund]

Hang tough, Tom! Still a chance for you to be the next governor of CA.

[EggsAckley]

Ping

[per loin]

And if only Reagan had dropped out, McGovern might have won.

[IpaqMan]

After reading the email from Ray Haynes about McC's ego and stubborn streak, I would not want to see him as governor of CA. I would prefer Issa or Simon than McC.

[My2Cents]

OVERWHELMINGLY, Republicans who plan on voting for Arnold Schwarzenegger in the California gubernatorial election on October 7 justify their choice by saying that they would rather see Tom McClintock be governor but they just don’t believe Tom can win.

Baloney. I've been saying for weeks that Tom doesn't have the personal qualities necessary to be an effective governor.

[StoneColdGOP]

Damn right he can win.

He just needs all the star-struck the people who think he'd be a good governor to actually have the guts to vote for him.

[Reagan Man]

Thanks for posting this.

If the California Republican leadership had come out early on for Tom McClintock, I believe theres a good chance, he'd be well ahead in all the polls right now. Let's look back just a short time ago. Without ever evaluating or analyzing Arnie's politics and where he stood on the issues, Californian's immediately went for Arnie. In the first poll released after he announced, people gave Arnie 23%. That 23% I suggest, came mostly from people who were fans of the pop cult icon and Hollywood superstar. Not from anything to do with his politics and stances on the issues.

I think the Califonria GOP has sold out their conservative principles and Republican convicitons to secure a victory over the liberal Democratic establishment in the Golden State. They've also sold out Tom McClintock, in order to support a liberal named Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Conservative Republican's have bitten the bullet on many occasions in the past, covering many election cycles. We have always tried to keep a positive, optimistic and winning attitude, with election victory as the target goal. Sometimes we've had to accept a candidate who was less then a full fledged conservative. At times we've backed a social moderate, who was a fiscal conservative. Other times we've even accepted a candidate who was, both a social and fiscal moderate. And on are occasion, conservatives have even tolerated a social liberal, who was also, a hardcore fiscal conservative. But this can only be carried so far, before you cross the centrist line on the American political spectrum and find yourself in the land of liberals and liberalism.

I think the California GOP and Republicans in general, have carried this to the extreme. Arnold's politics simply do not embrace the conservative agenda or advance the GOP party platform. And anyone who says Arnold is a conservative, who supports the GOP platform, better reevaluate their own political ideology and philosophy. Arnold's political agenda is closer to that of Teddy Kennedy, Tom Daschle and John F.Kerry, then it will ever be to that of Dick Cheney, George W.Bush and Ronald Reagan.

[InterceptPoint]

I coulda been a contenda.

Coulda. Woulda. Shoulda.

I think it is time for McClintock fans to Shut Up and Sing.

[medscribe]

Other miracles that will happen on Tuesday:

1. Clintons become honest.
2. Ted Kennedy gives up booze and women.
3. Gray Doofus apologizes for his incompetence.
4. The Dalai Lama gets a ticker tape parade around Tiananmmen Square and is the new Chinese head of state.
5. Saddam surrenders and apologizes for his decades of bad behavior.
6. Dick Gephardt shows up for a House vote.
7. John Edwards shows up for a Senate vote.
8. Liberal Hollywood gets a clue.
9. The NAACP apologizes for all of its past racism against anyone who isn't black.
10. The Democrats become respectable.

[finnman69]

Im going on record now that McClintock will poll at 18% on Tuesday.

[jmc813]

I do not believe I have heard a single Republican supporter of Mr. Scharzenegger declare that he is the best qualified candidate or the preferred choice

I'd say about 30% of his supporters on FR feel this way. Pretty freakin' sad.

[EternalVigilance]

Great post of a great article.