decisions, decisions
Sep. 12th, 2003 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisyphusshruggedMcClintock is polling in the double-digits, not enough to win but enough to act as the potential spoiler for Republicans by denying actor Arnold Schwarzenegger the votes he needs to defeat the most prominent Democrat in the race, Lt. Gov. Cruz M. Bustamante.
This does not bother McClintock, who reiterated his vow this week to stay in the recall race "until the finish line." He is only too happy to deconstruct Schwarzenegger, whom he describes as a mushy Republican who has surrounded himself with Democrats such as billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett and environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "That's not good company to keep," McClintock said.
"I keep reading about how the pressure on me is growing, so I must be gaining," McClintock said in an interview at his Senate offices in the Capitol. "I'm not going anywhere."
This is torturing many Republicans here.
Many of the party's conservative wing know and admire McClintock. He is one of them. He thinks illegal immigrants are overrunning the state and should be denied driver's licenses; he is against gun control and abortion and gay marriage. He was the author of the state's lethal-injection death penalty statute. And on the fiscal front, McClintock is relentless in his attacks against taxes and bureaucrats.
"But no one thinks he is going to get above 18 percent," a senior Republican lawmaker here said. "It's just killing us."
The nonpartisan California Field Poll showed Bustamante with 30 percent, Schwarzenegger with 25 percent and McClintock with 13 percent. With McClintock out, the poll had Schwarzenegger narrowly leading Bustamante, 33 percent to 31 percent, a statistical dead heat.
"It's the great conservative dilemma," said Shawn Steel, a former chairman of the state GOP. "Do we go with our hearts or our heads?"
Well, which one can you find?
I think I have a pretty good lead on your head...
This does not bother McClintock, who reiterated his vow this week to stay in the recall race "until the finish line." He is only too happy to deconstruct Schwarzenegger, whom he describes as a mushy Republican who has surrounded himself with Democrats such as billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett and environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "That's not good company to keep," McClintock said.
"I keep reading about how the pressure on me is growing, so I must be gaining," McClintock said in an interview at his Senate offices in the Capitol. "I'm not going anywhere."
This is torturing many Republicans here.
Many of the party's conservative wing know and admire McClintock. He is one of them. He thinks illegal immigrants are overrunning the state and should be denied driver's licenses; he is against gun control and abortion and gay marriage. He was the author of the state's lethal-injection death penalty statute. And on the fiscal front, McClintock is relentless in his attacks against taxes and bureaucrats.
"But no one thinks he is going to get above 18 percent," a senior Republican lawmaker here said. "It's just killing us."
The nonpartisan California Field Poll showed Bustamante with 30 percent, Schwarzenegger with 25 percent and McClintock with 13 percent. With McClintock out, the poll had Schwarzenegger narrowly leading Bustamante, 33 percent to 31 percent, a statistical dead heat.
"It's the great conservative dilemma," said Shawn Steel, a former chairman of the state GOP. "Do we go with our hearts or our heads?"
Well, which one can you find?
I think I have a pretty good lead on your head...
HahahahaDammit!
Date: 2003-09-12 06:13 am (UTC)Now there's coffee all over the keyboard.
Terry (http://nitpicker.blogspot.com)