Chris Lives Up to His Billing
While righteously defending republicans against non republicans, and decrying the republican bashing that MAY have gone on in California, Chris bashes non-republicans as unprincipled nincompoops while forgetting two very important facts. 1) George W. Bush is stupid and at this point, with republicans like John Ashcroft and his ilk, many freedom loving Americans do hate republicans. In fact, many hate democrats too. It's basically a "hate them all" relationship.
But let's examine a few "facts." Now I don't care for Gray Davis, but still the recall was not overwhelming. And secondly, Arnold doesn't even SMELL conservative. He is a "European Liberal." Or was that Eurotrash...I don't remember which :-)
Can you be clever and stupid at the same time? Why most certainly yes. See, for example Dubbya's poem to his wife:
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Oh my Lump in the Bed
How I've Missed You
That is likely the most clever thing Dubya has done to date as President. A marvelous summation of his relationship with his wife written with the skill of Justice Rhenquist. Contrast this with his social policies. At least Arnold will be able to read them in the original German..
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Erm, Mikki?
Check: http://vote2003.ss.ca.gov/Returns/summary.html
With 98.2% of precincts reporting:
Arnold: 3,552,787
No: 3,476,841
And if Davis couldn't even keep the heavily unionized agricultural counties in his camp (where ostensibly his greatest support was), I fail to see why he should remain governor. For Davis to be ousted by that respectable margin means that a fair number of "non-Republicans" also voted to oust him. I wonder why that is? Perhaps it is because Davis was lying racist scum, unfit to hold -any- office, and the main two reasons he was governor in the first place was because 1) he lied about the state of the economy during the campaign and 2) he wasn't Pete Wilson. Another telling fact is that all of the national level Dems who came to CA for the campaign were saying, "Vote no on the recall;" not a single one of them was willing to come out and make an appearance with Davis.
Even if Arnold hadn't been in the race, Davis would have gone down like the Hindenburg, and while Bustamante, by all reports, is a decent enough fellow, the Lt.Gov. spot isn't exactly high profile.
Posted by: BrentN | October 8, 2003 11:16 AM
Where did I say Davis should have stayed governor? He seemed to me to be a panny waste of a wussy lamer. However, re: Arnold - as California should have been told - "Be careful what you vote for...you'll get it."
Posted by: Mikki | October 8, 2003 12:22 PM