California: Republican Party directors call emergency meeting

Dan Weintraub Weblog ^ | September 27, 2003 | Dan Weintraub

[John Jorsett]

The California Republican Party has scheduled an emergency board of directors meeting for Monday at 1 p.m. in Burbank to consider endorsing a candidate in the recall replacement election. It's clear that at least some of the directors want the party to go on record endorsing Arnold. Once again, this bullying of McClintock strikes me as futile. Unless he has sent a signal that he would withdraw if the pary directors endorse Arnold, I don't see how this will change anything, other than to give McClintock one more "backroom deal" to rail against and give his supporters one more reason to consider him a hero. Then again, with Arnold and Cruz running neck-and-neck, if Arnold can somehow take half or more of the 15 percent to 18 percent now backing McClintock, it might provide the margin of victory. I'm just not a fan of political parties, especially when they act this way, so I have a natural adverse reaction to this sort of thing. I still think Arnold gets those votes anyway on Election Day, but doing it this way further polarizes the race and makes it tougher for him to win crossover and independent votes.

[EggsAckley]

Ping

[Kevin Curry]

Let Arnold contend for the 20-30 percent of the undecideds. He is neither owed nor deserving of the votes of conservatives he ridiculed and dismissed as "right wing crazies" in his cynical and arrogant run to the left.

If he can't or won't earn his support the old-fashioned way, let him lose and rot.

[KantianBurke]

He is neither owed nor deserving of the votes of conservatives he ridiculed and dismissed as "right wing crazies" in his cynical and arrogant run to the left.

If he can't or won't earn his support the old-fashioned way, let him lose and rot.

[shempy]

I agree. I think Arnold has this thing won. It doesn't matter what the Republican party does at this point. It doesn't matter what McClintock does at this point.

Why is there such a lack of polls since last week?

[Steely Glint]

Some of you Californians are not thinking.

Mac is not a choice. he has no prayer of winning. You get two choices in a row; first Gray or not Gray, and then Cruz or Arnold. Mac is not in the picture and will never be, and all your principled and emotional clinging to him will do is to put Cruz in the governor's seat.

[Vaduz]

Because the democrat machine is in action (grease the wheels of the media)works EVERY time.Remember it's mexifornia.

[BibChr]

He is neither owed nor deserving of the votes of conservatives he ridiculed and dismissed as "right wing crazies" in his cynical and arrogant run to the left

As a sort of rationality test, I'm going to try one sober question on you.

Which do you think is more damaging to the conservative movement:

• Schwarzenegger, a loyal Republican from citizenship to this day, on one occasion calling some supporters of one proposition "right wing crazies," while working with actual, office-holding conservatives and pledging to put conservative think-tanks in charge of reform?
  OR....
• McClintock acting like a right wing crazy, turning his scorched-earth supporters into right-wing crazies, by confirming every slander ever told by the Left that all conservatives are rigid, arrogant, reality-indifferent, authoritarian, humorless, uncompromising, team-fracturing, self-centered, Taliban-like dictators, thus cementing in the minds of all voters and observers that this is really the way all "real" conservatives will conduct themselves politically in a diverse culture?

Do you have a thoughtful answer on that one? Or just another one of the snipes, cliches, and diversions we've come to expect from many who STILL support McClintock?

Dan

[BibChr]

The fact that not all will answer, "Well, yeah -- duh!!" to your common-sense post is both a sad commentary on conservative political thinking in California today, and an explanation of why Democrats win power while conservatives focus fire on each other.

Dan

[Carry_Okie]

I agree. I think Arnold has this thing won.

That's what Davis wants you to think. He hasn't cut loose with his nuclear powered slime cannon yet. Give it about five more days.

[BibChr]

There has been a dearth of polls all along, most suspiciously.

Note that scorched-earthers, this time, actually anticipate with ill-concealed (or open) glee Democrat lies, slanders, and foul attacks.

Dan

[Drango]

let him lose and rot.

Spoken like a true Soreloserman.

[prognostigaator]

Word is that the smear campaign will explode on Arnold over next weekend just prior to Tuesday.

Similar tactics were utilized in the Boxer-Hershenson California Senate race , and more currently in the Bush drunkeness charges against GW.Bush just before that election day.....

[poet]

I second that! Arnold and his liberal ilk will never get my vote. If Mc wasn't in this, the ONLY vote I would cast is FOR recall and nothing else.

[poet]

"Spoken like a true Soreloserman."

Insults, always insults. clinton will be proud of you.

[FairWitness]

I'm just not a fan of political parties, especially when they act this way, - - .

I understand and agree with the standard practice of a party organization not endorsing a particular candidate in a primary election, but this is not a primary. There is no general election to follow, in which it would be standard practice to endorse the candidate that won the primary. I don't think it would be such a bad thing for the party to endorse in this case.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

When are Republicans going to learn to play hardball? I don't mean lying about Democrats, I simply mean telling the truth about them.

Republicans won't even guard for voter fraud. We're a bunch of weenies.

Bush wouldn't even hold the Clintonites accountable for vandalism.

Republicans allow Dems to lie about what really happened in FL.

[2iron]

It's a waste of time to expect the McClintock crazies to look at this rationally. My guess is that most of the die-hards are fringy, libertarian types anyway. McClintock in the end will be in single digits and that will be low enough to beat Bustamante. The fringies will brag that they never compromised, McClintock will be finished in California politics, and Arnold can work on fixing the mess we are in.

[B Knotts]

In response to your tagline: Schwarzenegger is the new Clinton.

But he's our Clinton, so it's all OK, isn't it?

[Drango]

Insults, always insults

Not always. The insults come when so called conservatives log on and try to elect Bustomonte...