Tom McClintock is certainly not one known to hold his tongue for any reason, but he's let it all hang out with his feelings about the GOP nominee for Governor, Meg Whitman.
McClintock went on, "If it comes down to a choice between Arnold Schwarzenegger's third term with Meg Whitman, or Jerry Brown's third term with Jerry Brown, anyway you cut it, it's going to be a long four years." (SacBee)
I can't say I really blame him, but this is all rather public. And he doesn describe the situation rather fairly. The best the GOP, or the state really, can hope for from Meg Whitman is four more years of Arnold Schwarzenegger-style governance. And really, it's hard to think of any ways that Meg is either more capable or more knowledgeable about the problems than our current Governor.
On a side note, if somebody asked me ten years ago whether I thought I would ever write the sentence above (about a CEO of a major corporation not being more knowledgeable than a former action movie star), I would have laughed. But such is the situation that we find ourselves in.
As for the second clause of McClintock's analysis, well, Jerry Brown would be Jerry Brown part III. Now, while he had to spend much of his second term trying to patch together a system of governance that could last a few years in the wake of Prop 13, his record is really rather positive. Sure, that Prop 13 is a bit of a downer, but he managed to somehow build a system that lasted nearly 25 years before it really broke under the weight of the super majority requirements.
But, all in all, I'm with Tom. Why would California want another term of Arnold Schwarzenegger? |
