Apparently, you weren't at the recall Davis rally at the Capitol. McClintock was on fire!! He had us all cheering and hooting and hollering. Bill Simon spoke as well as Darryl Issa - neither generated much enthusiasm but when McClintock got up there, the crowd went wild. Maybe the hard fought campaign is getting him down. Remember, he had just come off the campaign trail for State Controller which he lost be a slim margin - and if the CA Republican Party had supported him JUST A LITTLE, he'd have won!! Imagine if you were Tom McClintock and you had sacrificed your life to serve the people of California for over twenty years and then the CA Republican Party spits in your face and supports a guy who has never even won a primary!! It's a wonder McClintock is still out there kicking.
That's precisely the problem. McClintock cannot get over himself. To paraphrase bill clinton, "this is w-a-a-aay bigger than Tom McClintock."
That, post-911, McClintock cannot understand the national--indeed, the global-- implications of this race--or chooses not to--demonstrates his unfitness for the job.
Sadly for the nation, the McClintockians (and, reactively, the Arnoldites) are allowing the clintons and the dems, generally, to play them like fiddles. We really must try to see beyond our own provincial ideology and see the big picture. If we do that, our individual goals will fall into place...