An Open Letter to Tom McClintock Supporters

Men's News Daily ^ | 9/29/2003 | Jagrmeister

[jagrmeister]

"An Open Letter to Tom McClintock Supporters"

It seems like an eternity that we've been under the yoke of the Davis administration. Maybe you feel the same way too. When the recall petition began circulating, we responded. All told, 1.6 million of us said we were fed up with the entrenched politicians. Together, we showed how populism can work when we join forces. So here we are- a week till Election Day. And you, the supporters of Tom McClintock, hold in the balance the fate of California. Your choice determines whether we throw off the chains of the Davis-Bustamante regime or condemn ourselves to three more years of it. It's a substantial charge and I know that you won't take it lightly.

Tom McClintock is a fine statesman and has run a solid race. Undoubtedly, he's a rising star in the GOP. But this is not his time. From the Los Angeles Times poll conducted from September 6th to the PPIC poll released on September 17th, Tom lost 4% of his support and is polling at 14%. This is half the support level of Schwarzenegger and Bustamante. Because polls show he lacks momentum, Tom has no realistic chance of winning. Tom will be back for another statewide race, perhaps even running for US Senate next year against Barbara Boxer. We can count on that. But for now, Arnold Schwarzenegger is the one Republican who can win this race. The reason that conservatives such as Bill Simon and former California Republican Party chairman Shawn Steel have endorsed Arnold is that he alone can deliver us from the misery we've suffered under Davis-Bustamante rule. And these conservatives know that Arnold will uphold conservative principles in opposing driver's licenses for illegals, rescinding Davis's tripling of the car tax, and opposing partial birth abortion. It's essential to realize that Arnold shares your values, he's on your side, and he needs your support to remove Gray Davis from power and keep Cruz Bustamante from seizing Davis's throne.

A Bustamante victory on Election Day would be disastrous. The first thing Bustamante would do as governor is increase taxes on us by $8 billion. This is the promise he made under his infamous "tough love" program. And since Bustamante hasn't showed the slightest interest in curbing spending, we can expect one punitive tax increase after another. And let us not forget Bustamante's ties to the racist organization, MEChA, whose slogan is "For the race, everything. For everyone else, nothing." Bustamante's commitment to border enforcement will be zero. He backs the bill giving driver's licenses for illegals despite the fact that terrorists could slip through this security loophole and gain valid US identification. As bad as it's been under Gray Davis, Cruz Bustamante would be worse. We cannot risk electing him to office. Yet this will be the result if we split the vote between Arnold and McClintock. The time has come to unite as a party. Recently, the "father" of the recall, Darrel Issa, endorsed Schwarzenegger for governor. If it were not for Issa's heroic efforts, this recall may have not come about. At the endorsement event, Issa said, "I want to reach out directly to Senator McClintock's supporters and appeal to them to join me in voting for Arnold Schwarzenegger. We worked hard together to make this recall a reality. We must be united in these final days to ensure its ultimate success." Issa's message is simple: We can win but we must be united to do so. Democrats are united behind Bustamante; we must unite behind our strongest candidate. Voter anger at Davis and Bustamante gives Republicans a unique opportunity to prevail in this election, but unity is essential if we are to fulfill the recall's promise. When the Founding Fathers were debating about measures to confront the British, Benjamin Franklin said memorably, "We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately." Let's bear that in mind. The consequence of voting for McClintock at this stage is a three-year hangover that will be the Cruz Bustamante administration.

We the people have it in our ability to remove the Davis-Bustamante regime from power. But your support is needed. Arnold, and more importantly, California, needs you.

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Bob Chandra is a Bay Area Republican activist. He was involved as a strategist for Linda Rae Hermann's campaign against Mike Honda for California's 15th congressional district. His email address is bobchandra(at)comcast.net.

[WhiteGuy]

Liberals, moderates, and independants WILL NOT vote for that person for a general policy setting post like governor, for the same reason.


wow, YOU know everything.

Quick, who's going to win the series?

[Jeff Gordon]

Is that a serious question?

It is. I just wanted to ask it in such a way as to keep the factual content of the responses high and the passions low. :-)

[MoralValues.info]

does your long list of nothing positive about Arnold include his "Bill Clinton" background?

http://www.liberty-ca.org/recallgraydavis/swartzenegger.htm

The "30 year old" problems of Mr. Schwarzenegger are a lifelong history, similarly as was Clinton's "10 year old land deal" a lifetime of corruption.

Whether it is Schwarzenegger or Clinton who has the better experience at groping and otherwise sexually harrassing women seems a close tie, but it may be that Clinton was out of his league. Schwarzenegger may be the professional groper, and he may put Clinton's amateurish pants dropping and cigar tricks to shame.

[Amerigomag]

McClintock could have beaten Davis and Bustamante with the help of the CRP and the RNC.

Instead, the Bush family promoted Schwarzenegger and thumbed their nose at the California conservatives. Many fair weather conservatives rushed to their side.

Shame on you wavering conservatives and shame on George Bush.

[Kevin Curry]

The reason that conservatives such as Bill Simon and former California Republican Party chairman Shawn Steel have endorsed Arnold is that he alone can deliver us from the misery we've suffered under Davis-Bustamante rule.

Horse manure. This pathetic piece of fiction has been thoroughly discredited. McClintock would beat Bustamante in a landslide. Moreover, he is indisputably better experienced and more able to address the fiscal problems facing the state than Arnold and his advisors (the socialist Warren Buffet and tax-hiking Pete Wilson) are.

The reasons for continuing to support Arnold at this point have nothing to do with some supposed inability of McClintock to win or with rescuing the state from its liberal-policies inspired fiscal disaster. It is due to the sheer arrogance and mule-headed stubborness of Arnold's supporters who refuse not only to admit they are wrong, but fundamentally and disasterously wrong.

[BibChr]

Tom McClintock is a fine statesman and has run a solid race. Undoubtedly, he's a rising star in the GOP

Sad to say, gotta disagree. He is NONE of those things.

McC has shown that he is NO statesman. He can't even unite the conservative wing of his own party, for crying out loud, and simply thumbs his nose at party leadership and any concept of party unity or discipline or teamwork — except 100% on his terms.

Also, running against your party's frontrunner, with no chance of winning, in a close general election with sky-high stakes, is neither fine nor solid.

And in so doing, he has destroyed his future in the GOP, barring a change of heart on his part.

Dan

[born yesterday]

As a long time Republican, I vacillated between Arnold and Tom. As we close on the vote, I begin to firm my thought. I will proudly vote for TOM MCCLINTOCK.

[BibChr]

Put simply Schwarzenegger is worse than Bustamante.

Yes — but only if you're using "simply" as a synonym for "cluelessly and against all evidence."

Dan

[BibChr]

Bump to a good post.

Governors do not have the power to change our national, court-mandated abortion policy. Everyone here knows that -- indeed, when a pro-life candidate is running in a state, many pro-lifers will point out to liberals that it doesn't matter what the candidates abortion position is, since a state official has very little latitude to change the law -- but suddenly McClintock supporters are behaving as if Governor Arnold Schwarzengger is going to advance the pro-choice position in California.

To strengthen your good point, McClintock has said — and here's the credibility-thing again — that he will initiate NO CHANGE in the abortion status quo in California.

Making the #1 stated issue of many of the scorched-earthers here doubly moot.

Dan

[ought-six]

Your patronizing comment on "the gun thing" was offensive. It's not a "gun thing," it's a freedom and constitutional thing. Do you think the leftists will stop at guns? Good grief, they're at this very moment engaged in an all-out assault on relgious beliefs, especially Christian (and I'm not Christian, per se, but I know our republic was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and to attack that is to dismantle it). Americans are for the most part a religious people, and the left is hell-bent on changing that. Abortion? Murder, pure and simple. Free speech? The only free speech the left is for is its own. Continuing to compromise with the left benefits them, not us. When we yield, the left gains, because we started out on this noble experiment in freedom with a Constitution and a republic. The left arrived later, with nothing on itside, but each time we have compromised with them it was a victory for them and a defeat for us. I left-leaning "Republican" does us no favors.

[FairOpinion]

I highly suggest you read Haynes's long, but very revealing e-mail, posted at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/991842/posts

Here are some excerpts:

"Tom believed he was entitled to the Governor's office. This is not a battle over personality; it is a battle over principle. I believe the principles we believe in lost when Darrell pulled out, and they lost because Tom would not even consider anything other than his personal campaign for Governor. We will not advance principle as long as personality trumps principle in these types of disputes.

if Cruz wins because Tom split the vote, the cost to the conservative movement in California will be immeasurable. We started the recall, we need to finish it with a victory. If we lose now, and there is a better than average chance we will if things stay the same, we will rightly bear the criticism that we handed this state over to the Democrats for the next 7 years. Our shortsightedness could cost us the entire war in this state. That is a risk I will not take. I have worked too hard, fought too much for the things we believe in to sacrifice them for my political career, for someone else's ego, or for the shortsightedness of those who are my allies. If I believe we are doing wrong, I am going to do what is right first, and let the politics fall as they may. If that means I must bear the criticism of my friends, then so be it. I know if Cruz wins, conservatism is California will be discredited for a long time. "

There is an article, which attempts to summarize the letter, but the original letter is well worth reading.

(Here is the article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/992170/posts

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[tallhappy]

if Cruz wins because Tom split the vote, the cost to the conservative movement in California will be immeasurable.

Schwarzenegger victory more likely harms the conservative movement all over the nation.

It becomes homeless.

The Republicans as a viable party also diminishes as imitation Democrat won't win to the real thing.

[Roscoe]

"We want to make sure the mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure the older folks have their care that they need. That everything has to be provided for the people." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger

The money for his Schwarzensocialism will hafta come from somewhere.

[capitan_refugio]

"I guess Gary Coleman does not have a chance."

That's the long and short of it.

[onyx]

McC has shown that he is NO statesman. He can't even unite the conservative wing of his own party, for crying out loud, and simply thumbs his nose at party leadership and any concept of party unity or discipline or teamwork — except 100% on his terms.

Also, running against your party's frontrunner, with no chance of winning, in a close general election with sky-high stakes, is neither fine nor solid.

And in so doing, he has destroyed his future in the GOP, barring a change of heart on his part.

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Thank you, Dan! Now I do not have to craft a response of my own!

[Tabi Katz]

For someone who was "born yesterday" you certainly acquired wisdom quickly :-)

[Tabi Katz]

"It's essential to realize that Arnold shares your values, he's on your side"

Really? It would seem to me that would depend on what one values, and conservatives come in all stripes and colors. Those who don't vote for Arnold don't want him to win, because on the issues that matter most to them he is closer to the left than the right. These voters would be just as likely to sit home or write someone in if McClintock dropped out.

[sully777]

Drug abuse. Rape. Infidelity. Homo-erotic tendancies. Pro-abortion. Feminist wife with possible political asperations. Big gov't. Moderate centrist spin without any proof. Personal power at the expense of party's soul.

Am I talking about Bill Clinton or Arnold?

I think Bill went to California and reported back to Hillary, "Shazaam! I'm going to change party affiliation and run as a Republican presidential candidate. Dumb RINOs will vote for anything with an R, as long as their party wins. they'll never know what hit them."

I hope Tom wins and Pete Wilson GOES AWAY FOREVER. Pete Wilson opened pandora's box; Grey Davis is the monster from the box's depths.


When will conservatives wake up and realize that the socialists have forced them out?

[christynsoldier]

hey Dan you're a serious scholar, so I think your emotion is getting the best of you went you say Tom will initiate no change...

please read the context of that comment and tell me if you agree that Tom was talking PRIORITIES and knowing the fight he would have with the death cult, it would not be at the top of his list as new Gov.???? isn't it also a softening a compromise being tossed to the liberal wing of the party, who do not want him to be a slashing right winger when he gets in office. I think its not a reasonable approach to first demand all kinds of compromise and then try and hammer Tom out of context when he offers a little and says there are bigger fish to fry!

Can you please tell me what three things that Arnie's platform or statements have convinced you that he will be good for the conservative movement? TIA and I hope you can be specific with Arnie's promises, not what you will hope he'd accomplish. What's on the top of your positive list? thanks again.