Posted on 04/24/2005 9:41:55 AM PDT by AVNevis
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) - State Sen. Tom McClintock, the rock-ribbed conservative who made headlines two years ago when he ignored his fellow Republicans' pleas to drop out of the race to replace Gov. Gray Davis and leave the field open for Arnold Schwarzenegger, is getting an early start in the 2006 race for lieutenant governor.
Campaigning in Orange County on Saturday, McClintock told members of the group Principles Over Politics that the job appeals to him because the lieutenant governor presides over the state Senate and is California's chief executive whenever the governor is out of state.
"It places the office in the position of being a great generator of reforms," McClintock said. He also defended Schwarzenegger against complaints that in recent weeks he has backed off efforts to overhaul the state's pension system and institute tighter budget controls after his proposals came under sharp criticism.
"We have to bear in mind that political battles aren't tidy affairs," he said.
McClintock and Schwarzenegger were at odds for a time in 2003 when the legislator became the only major Republican to refuse to drop out of the race to replace Davis if he was recalled after Schwarzenegger became the front-runner to replace him. The two put those differences aside last year when Schwarzenegger campaigned for McClintock's re-election to the state Senate.
McClintock is making his fourth campaign for statewide office, having lost the gubernatorial race in 2003 and two previous bids for state controller. First elected to the state Assembly in 1982 at age 26, he served there until 1992 and again from 1996 to 2000. First elected to the state Senate in 2000, term limits will prevent him from seeking another term there in 2008.
He is the first Republican to announce his candidacy lieutenant governor in 2006.
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"McClintock tried to play the spoiler. He tried to hurt the only Republican with chance to win."
Again, are you telling me that McClintock entered the race just to keep Arnold from being elected?
I'm saying he stayed in the race long after it was clear that he couldn't win and all he could do was hurt the chances of the only Republican who could win.
So in turn, I'll do my best to hurt his chances to win.
ROLF all you like, but those who haven't smoked the McClintock dope accept what I posted as simple truth.
OR had they NOT sabotaged Bill Simon's campaign
Bustamonte could not have won not matter how much they split the vote. The combined Republicans got 63%, Bustamonte only got 31%.
The polls disagree with you.
>>They won't believe that which defeats their dogma.
You're right. Facts and links have been posted time and time again debunking their BS, only to have someone show up under a new user name to try to rehash the same cr@p all over again. SOS.
So in turn, I'll do my best to hurt his chances to win.
One more time, and this time pay attention instead of thinking of more ways to insult McClintock:
McClintock got more votes in 2002 than any other Republican, including Bill Simon, the runner-up to Gray Davis. In the 2003 recall election, only R-nold got more votes among the GOP candidates. But R-nold WON'T be running for Lieutenant Governor, will he? So, which Republican would have the best chance at winning for Lt. Governor, if not McClintock?
If it's so important for you to have a Republican win, you SHOULD be supporting McClintock. If you are going to play "spoiler" yourself this time around, it's only because you've got a [fill-in the blank] about R-nold!
Don't tell me why I do what I do. I've already told you...McClinkook tried to screw me, now I'm going to try to screw him.
Simple as that.
Paybacks are a Hillary!!
Not exactly. However inept Bill Simon's campaign may have seemed, the worst of it was done by his own Party. One rightly has to question the apparent ineptitude of his considering the way he crushed an experienced pol in Dick Riordan. The explanation is simple: Gerry Parsky and the GOP leadership refused to raise the money promised when they took the job, withheld funds raised by President Bush until Simon's campaign manager (Sal Russo) signed the Log Cabin letter, Parsky refused to fund GOTV or registration efforts, and stipulated Simon hire Wilson/Jones (remember "Fire Gray Davis"?) and Ed Rollins (the famous fundraising photo) as campaign consultants. As a result, Simon lost by 350,000 votes while 1.6 MILLION registered Republicans didn't vote. It was a party failure.
Consider Bill Jones recent campaign. ALL of the funds raised and ALL of the organizational effort in California last year went to the Bush campaign. To what end? After Jones beat conservative Howard Kaloogian in the primary, he took the expected dive in the general election getting zero support from the CAGOP, as predicted.
The behavior of GOP "moderates" during the Simon campaign is the principal reason I have so little patience for Arnold supporters when they demand I support him. They put up Riordan, lost, screwed a conservative in Bill Simon, lost, resisted the recall petition drive, lost, and then inserted their "centrist" excuse for a Republican telling us to support him while accusing conservatives of splitting the vote! They were perfectly happy to keep Gray Davis until conservatives succeeded in the petition drive despite them and then get crappy when we don't fall in line behind them.
If conservatives had supported Arnold, would the GOP leadership EVER support another conservative candidate? The record says, no way. They'll expect us to keep giving them money, keep doing the legwork, and keep accepting the consequences for their "social liberalism," which ends up costing the State a fortune and manufactures ever more Democrat dependents.
Those are the facts, your crappy tone notwithstanding.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
It's much more intelligent than the tripe you spew.
Folks, there you have it. The mind of a McClintock hater.
Hey! Thanks for contacting my Peeps!!
Another accurate, incisive, relevant post. Let's sit back and see how juvenile the responses are.
I'd say a delusional one, at that. I bet Prince Charles and Jodie Foster are out to get him too.
Do you consider the owner of this website to be wacky?
I would certainly describe you that way.
But I've given up trying to use logic on the Arnoldbots. Since they believe the more liberal you are, the more "electable" you are in California, we might as well give them what they want and see if we can export all the ultra-corrupt RINOs from other parts of the country into their state.
I'm working really hard to see if they can take George Ryan off our hands. He utterly destroyed Illinois and it's taking FOREVER waiting for the indicited former criminal Governor to be tried. They won't mind if he takes everyone off death row in their state or spends taxpayer funded trips to kiss Fidel Castro's butt, cuz he has an "R" next to his name, dontsa know.
The guy's been "elected" statewide in Illinois no less than three times, but today he couldn't be elected dogcatcher in Illinois. He's the perfect candidate for California though, they will appriciate his "electablity". Gotta replace the UNELECTABLE intermin SOS with out guy.
Tom McClintock's Luncheon Speech to the California Republican Assembly
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