[AlanD]

I have a list of about 10 Republican Conservatives who lost big time, including Tom McClintock. You are engaging in wishful thinking.

California ain’t Alabama.

[ncalburt]

Exactly, all these outsider think you can run a deep south conservative in this lib state .
Sadly the demos make in impossible !

[Carry_Okie]

I have a list of about 10 Republican Conservatives who lost big time, including Tom McClintock.

Oh really? How "big time" was that?

Post the tabulated results or I'll call you a liar now.

[ExtremeUnction]

I have a list of about 10 Republican Conservatives who lost big time, including Tom McClintock. You are engaging in wishful thinking.

I don't like her. She can't win. She looks and sounds like an uninspired old woman. She's wasting her money.

[Carry_Okie]

In 2002, Steve Westly received 3,157,757 votes, or 45.4%. Tom McClintock received 3,136,333 votes 45.1%. Westley outspent McClintock 5:1 in that race while Tom had NO support from the CAGOP, and never has.

Could he have won the recall?

Here is the last USA Today/CNN/GALLUP poll before the recall.

"6. If the choice were between Cruz Bustamante, the Democrat and Tom McClintock, the Republican, who would you be more likely to vote for: Cruz Bustamante or Tom McClintock?"

September 25-27
Registered Voters

McClintock 49%
Bustamante 42%

Probable Voters

McClintock 56%
Bustamante 37%

In short, had REPUBLICANS voted their preference in that race, the conservative would have won. Our problem is more with "he can win" RINOs than it is with the left, and always has been.

I won the chance to run against Brown after a Republican primary campaign that was very bitter at times, largely because of the lingering split between conservatives and moderates in the state party. My principal opponent in the primary was George Christopher, a former mayor of San Francisco who tried simultaneously to portray me as a right-wing extremist and attack me because I'd admitted having been in Communist front groups - without mentioning that I'd resigned and declared war on them as soon as I'd realized what they were.

The personal attacks against me during the primary finally became so heavy that the state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. It's a rule I followed during that campaign and have ever since. Ronald Reagan

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals of our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the party over to the so-called moderates wouldn't make any sense at all." - Ronald Reagan

[Frantzie]

Agreed. McClintock is one of the best conservatives ever but you need big bucks to win in CA. Sad but true.

The state is so disfunctional now that maybe some people will actually vote for conservatives but who knows.

[NormsRevenge]

Welcome to FR..

Enjoy your stay.