McClintock needs the CAGOP to run an effective campaign this year. His silence and/or tacit support of measures on the November ballot were easily explained by pressure/threats brought to bear by the CAGOP if he didn't cooperate. The spin from the party that he actually believed in some of the dirty tricks the party was fronting for Wilson/Schwarzenegger fell on my deaf ears. A brief review of his outspoken objections to such shenanigans just weeks earlier, made the spin just that: spin.
So why has McClintock now become vocal, turned "traitor" or jumped ship? Ostensibly he still needs the CAGOP's blessing and support to win in November.
The possibilities are endless but these three are at the top of my list:
1) McCLintock is well aware that the CAGOP will eventually turn on him, after his usefulness is gone (selling the "reforms" to conservatives), as they have done to many conservatives and he pragmatically realizes the no amount of booth licking will change the course of events.
2) McClintock is becoming increasingly aware that Schwarzenegger will not survive, either within the CAGOP or with the electorate in November, and McClintock is just trying to salvage someting conservative out of the Schwarzenegger debacle, using his typically undiplomatic style.
3) McClintock calculates that he might be better off to "go it alone" this summer in view of the considerable damage the CAGOP has done to their reputation supporting Schwarzenegger's failed agendas. Just as Schwarzenegger has distanced himself from the CAGOP, so will McClintock. He'll run as a "reformer", not a partisan.
I'm guessing number 3.
Buried behind the various bills introduced in the legislature for the $222 Billion infrastructure plan the other day... was McClintock, introducing a new Constitutional Amendment re: Eminent Domain.
SCA 20 ... Homeowners and Private Property Protection Act of 2006