Posted on 12/13/2006 2:17:12 PM PST by GOPXtreme20
Posted on December 11, 2006
Thank You
I cannot begin to thank you enough for everything that you did for me during this campaign. My gratitude to you for your faith and generosity and support makes it all the harder to accept the result. I was very much looking forward to delivering you a victory after all that you have done and sacrificed for my candidacy.
By all accounts, we ran a solid campaign of which I am intensely proud. And according to all of the final polls, we were poised to win.
But those polls were based upon normal voter turn-out – and that’s the tide that went against us. Unfortunately, a very high percentage of Democrats and a very low percentage of Republicans actually cast ballots. (For example, only 47.7 percent of voters turned out in the Republican stronghold of San Bernardino, while 61.2 percent turned out in the Democratic bastion of Alameda County).
California and the country did not suddenly take a dramatic turn to the left. Rather, Republican voters were disenchanted with the direction of their party and simply stayed home. The political fundamentals are still sound – it is the abandonment of our party’s core principles that must now be challenged if our voters are to return to the polls.
I intend to do my part, and I know that you will, too. In this campaign, we pulled together the largest coalition of supporters of any candidacy on the ballot because each of us is firmly committed to a simple principle called freedom. And I don’t think that a single one of us is willing to meekly abandon that principle or our beautiful California .
On the contrary, we can all draw increased confidence that the policies of higher taxes, greater regulation and less freedom that will inevitably follow from this election can not be sustained and will not be tolerated by precisely those voters who sat at home this time.
We must rally them and return them to the polls – and on that day we will certainly save our state.
Again, thank you for standing firm. I could not possibly be more gratified or more humbled than to have had your support in this campaign.
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This could have been written back in the 1950's, when "me toos," now known as RINOs, controlled the party--and for some strange reason, the number of Republican elected officials got smaller and smaller year after year.
Thank you for your service Tom McClintock.
BTTT
If there was a Republican worth getting out for this year, McClintock was one of them. I don't care if he does have a severe case of the crazy eye, and I won't even hold it against him that he's from California ... I like this guy a lot.
Thanks, Tom!
Tom McClintock and Cheryl Cox were my two best reasons for voting.
At least Cheryl won as Mayor of Chula Vista.
Gallegly isn't retiring.
Gallegly Changes Mind, Will Seek Another Term - (Dec 11 2006)Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.), after acceding to pressure from his colleagues in March and declaring he would serve one more term rather than retire this year, has now scrapped his exit plans altogether and is preparing to run for re-election in 2008.
There you go stealing my lines again...
Many of his supporters said he would have won the Gov if there was no Arnold, but he couldn't even win the Lt. Gov. spot all the exposure of the recall race.
I think he has trouble marketing himself. Of course he has some good ideas, but if few like him, he will not get elected.
Thanks for the heads up.
But......
Look for McClintock federal committee fundraising.
I don't think that Elton will run again. And if he decides not to run he would not announce it early in any case.
With Republicans like you continuously campaigning year after year against Tom, who needs Democrats?
Tom was starved of Cash by the CRP and stabbed in the back by Arnold, and he still got 14% more votes than Phil Angelides.
More evidence, if any is needed, that Tom is a class act. Too bad his cause was harmed by the Austrian and by Dufus Sundheim's RINO clowns.
I'm not surprised; I had always assumed that Elton Gallegly would stay in Congress until the pallbearers carried him out. He loves being a Congressman and a person of importance and influence. The district we live in is a safe conservative Republican seat, so there's no risk of his ever losing an election.
That's why his abortive retirement announcement earlier this year was so stunning. For him to be ignorant about the fact that you can't withdraw your name (short of death) from the primary ballot once you've submitted your nomination papers made no sense. While I'm no fan of Elton, I didn't think he and his legal advisors were that incompetent, so I kept looking for a hidden purpose that never materialized.
Unfortunately, that means that Tom McClintock won't be able to take over Gallegly's Congressional seat. Tom is popular in this area, and he can raise lots of money now, but it would be very difficult for him to oust as entrenched an incumbent as Gallegly in the primary.
Nor could I see Elton stepping down unless he could hand off his seat to his hand-picked successor. And that would most definitely NOT be Tom McClintock, since the two of them are on opposite sides of a long-standing internal Republican feud in Ventura County. Tom could beat any Republican other than Gallegly for the Republican nomination for Congress, so when Tom lost the Lt. Governor race Gallegly had no alternative but to run for re-election in 2008 in order to keep Tom out.
Tom Coburn make your list? He's kinda level-headed...
Tom is such a fine man. It grieves me that he did not win this election.
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