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This is a carbon copy of the plan that gave us Bill Simon, the Candidate From Hell. It is exquisite. Indeed, the hand of Bubba may be lurking here.

It's time for the White House to get involved and make Tom an Offer He Can't Refuse. Run the good race up to the Convention on the Fifteenth, then bow out and support Arnold to the hilt.

If McClintock can't or won't pull out, send Luca Brasi (James Baker) to see him. No campaign money. No presidential visits. No help aganst Boxer if he runs against her someday. Not even help with a House race. The word has to go out to his fellow assemblymen: this guy gets nothing if he costs us the governor's seat. Not one thin f*%king dime if he lets Bustamente in when Arnold could have won.

The rest of the Assembly people want a guy in Sacramento they can use as veto leverage against the Democratic majority in the Assembly and the State Senate. McClintock is really pushing the envelope, and if he starts taking Tribal money, even laundered tribal money, then I want to hear the backpedalling from the McClintock crowd about what a good Republican their man is.

Bush intends to raise upwards to 200 million dollars to use next year. Once the nomination occurs, Bush can't use his slush fund money. He has to use taxpayer money and matching funds. However, Bush will give Rove the money not spent whittling down Howard Dean to Senatorial candidates next year and enough to hold or expand our lead in the House.

It's time to play hardball. McClintock needs someone, the President if necessary, to sit him down and do a Don Corleone with him. "Your signature will be on this contract, or your brains will be on this contract".

I've been very understanding of McClintock, if only because I do see him as a man of principle. I am hoping that McClintock is playing the positioning game so he can negotiate with Arnold for a voice in the budget and help in a Senate campaign against Boxer. But if Tom takes money from the Democrats and the Tribes, then he can go straight to hell.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

I like your Godfather analogy; if the damn California Repubos would function like that, they wouldn't be in this mess.

I have said I think Bustamante is a shill for Davis; I think the Cal RAT-bastards cooked up the whole "enchilada", knowing the Repubos would assume that Davis will be thrown out. Arnold's candidacy has given the Cal Repubos a false sense of security. And the damn sycophantic press is playing the McClintock/Arnold thing to the hilt. Once the (predominantly lefty) voters look at the whole mess, they might just be tempted to retain Davis, since its real clear that Busta-Gut-mante is much worse than Davis. I don't think that main-stream demonRATs like Bustamante at all. Its not beyond the realm of possibility that the whole Bustamante candidacy is a red herring.

Chris, you are a reasonable person. I applaude your Post #44. By way of reply, let me remind (or inform) one and all of what happened in the California Assembly in 1995. The Republican Revolution of 1994 did not skip California. We won control of the Assembly for the first time in many, many years. And what happened? Did they consolidate their gains and use that golden opportunity to strengthen the party?

Well....for the next two years the Republicans squabbled amongst themselves — conservatives vs. moderates. They couldn't decide who to elect as Speaker. They couldn't decide what their legislative agenda should be. They quarreled when one of the Speakers they elected during those two years sold them out to the Dems. And on it went until 1996, when the Dems regained control and never looked back. Republicans have lost seats every year since.

This sort of self-destructive warfare on the right in this state still continues, as we can see in the McClintock vs. Schwarzenegger battle raging on this forum. McClintock seems to be going out of his way to encourage such intra-party division. To me, his behavior is very reminicent of the way the Republican majority acted in the Assembly from 1994 to 1996 — almost deliberately and willfully destructive of GOP chances in this state.

Even when he's smiling, there is something very tightly wound and guarded about the guy:

"I've been very understanding of McClintock, if only because I do see him as a man of principle. I am hoping that McClintock is playing the positioning game so he can negotiate with Arnold for a voice in the budget and help in a Senate campaign against Boxer. But if Tom takes money from the Democrats and the Tribes, then he can go straight to hell."

Thanks for your post. Sometimes you have to play hardball. That's something that most conservatives understand. If a guy is trying to kill you, it's better to kill him first. And McClintock sure looks like someone who is hell-bent on doing damage rather than doing good.

"But if Tom takes money from the Democrats and the Tribes, then he can go straight to hell."

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McClintock Tied To Indian Casinos

Republican Candidate Makes No Apologies For Seeking Contributions

Aug 27, 2003 1:26 pm US/Pacific
LOS ANGELES (AP) State Sen. Tom McClintock makes no apologies for aggressively seeking campaign contributions from California's gambling-rich Indian tribes, saying his support for tribal issues goes back years before the state legalized Indian gambling.

"I stood with them long before they were powerful or a special interest," McClintock said Tuesday after unveiling a television ad in which he promised that as governor he would "challenge the spending lobby" he said controls Sacramento politics.

McClintock criticized Gov. Gray Davis' efforts to get the tribes, which as sovereign nations do not pay taxes to the state, to contribute more money to California programs.

"I do not believe that the tribes should have to pay tribute to the state to maintain that sovereignty," he said.

He also disagreed with current state regulations limiting the number of slot machines a tribe can operate to 2,000.

McClintock campaign director John Feliz said he expects the tribes will support both the Republican McClintock and Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, another longtime tribal supporter.

Indian tribes have become some of the state's top political donors since scores of them signed deals three years ago to operate casinos, and they are expected to give heavily during the remainder of the recall campaign.

"This is a carbon copy of the plan that gave us Bill Simon, the Candidate From Hell. It is exquisite. Indeed, the hand of Bubba may be lurking here."

For political skills, the dems sure have it over the CA GOP, don't they?

First, the dems have a single candidate from the start. Secondly, they redeploy the very same tactic which worked for them, just the last time around.

On the other hand, the CA GOP is the definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.

And is there any wonder the CA GOP is widely known as "The Stupid Party?"

Since the McClintock forces claim true ownership of California conservatism and the Republican party, do they deserve the label by extension?