At the end of the Davis Recall campaign, I trashed McClintock, with good reason: He refused to recognize that, in the face of an arrangement of Arnold being in first, Busty being in second, and he being a distant third, that McClintock could split the GOP vote and hand the race to the racist dolt Bustamonte.
There was no primary. We had two dogs in the final run to the Dem's one. That was a time to put ideology aside and recognize the reality of basic election mechanisms.
McClintock would have made a better governor than Arnold, that's for sure - but the tricky thing is that you actually have to get elected first.
All that's in the past. I fully support Tom McClintock in what he is doing here, and in his future endeavors.
Given Arnold’s performance of late there are lessons here for everyone.
Yet, in the next election, Bustamonte got about 7% less in his race than McClintock got in his, IIRC. Methinks Arnold was the spoiler in the recall; joined late and stole the effort.
Only in a state where brains outweighed brawn. Our state has and is, collapsing under the fat belly of belligerent liberalism- home of America's two most yeast infected senators who couldn't find the Washington Monument if it weren't phalic shaped, and it's liberals weren't, by nature, nothing, if not envious.
It's a bit early to replace (in our minds) Arnold with Tom and fancy a rosy scenario. The Governator is getting PO'ed over the budget impass. Doubtful? Ask some state workers.