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Originally Posted by Abcdxxxx
Kevin - Prentention...who cares. Condescending...very. If you want to pretend you're having a dialogue by telling people what they think then you should stand in front of a mirror and save the bandwidth.
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Poor sniffles, and what exactly are you doing?? It's
you who has been arguing all along that 1 million signatures proves how much people in California want to get rid of Davis.
I'm not telling people to like Davis, what I
am telling people is that they elected him a year ago, and there should be a certain degree of respect for the democratic electoral process. Now I know, you'll say that Davis has ruined California ALL ON HIS OWN, and cheated his way into office. This strikes me more as unsubstantiated speculation and over-zealous exaggeration on your part, but we both know how prone you are to this behavior.
Now please, forgive my own condescension, but mine is at least warranted. As I have already stated, I've participated in ballot initiative campaigns, and they tend NOT to be as "purely democratic" as your teary eyed rants would presume.
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Gasp. America the land of the free - where anyone with $3,500 and some signatures can run for office ... what a horrible outrage.... the system will surely fail now....we used to have such good candidates before this recall talk came along... what happened to Bradley, and =Bono, and Eastwood, and Reagan? Those were some good candidates!
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Hehe, you're really a clever kid, because when you can't handle an argument, you like to rant and fuddle the points made. Here, let me help you out.
Critics of the recall are not merely criticizing it b/c it allows silly candidates to get on the ballot. It DOES however allow up to ONE-HUNDRED candidates on the ballot. Now, since this race
won't be a run-off, that means the winner on a ballot with so many candidates will have won by a fairly small plurality. So, I realize you love this recall, I realize you sit up at night debating whether to vote for the Terminator, Gary Coleman, Mike Savage, Larry Flynt, or maybe even that sumo wrestler, and that's fine. I'm happy for you. But what I thus want you to admit is that you don't really care about democracy, and how few people like Gray Davis is in fact irrelevant to you. You don't want to vote for a new governor, you want to vote against the real one.
And as for the comments you made on the quality of candidates, that's not entirely the point either (try to follow along junior). Much like other recall critics, I have no problem with folks like Arnold Schwarzenegger running for governor. In a regular election cycle, voters would have the opportunity to become intimately aware of where all the candidates stand on issues. THIS election will be a sprint. Arnold already has enough free press, he doesn't even NEED to spend millions on plastering his face all over California. But he will anyway. He will purposely come across as ignorant to the political system, because that implies some kind of "purity," separating him from the inately "corrupt" California government. He will stick to purely populistic reform talk, almost completely devoid of real substance.
Arnold aside, lets also not forget the other circus like things going on. People who aren't even serious about campaigning, Gary Coleman and Mike Savage, but who are very serious about contributing to an already bloated ballot. One $0.99 store is searching for a 99 year old Californian to run for governor. Great publicity for their store, I guess.
Right now, it looks as if after the recall has gone through, and millions of tax payer dollars have been spent, you may have Arnold as your governor, or perhaps Cruz Bustamante. So when it's all said and done, you may have an inexperienced, rich actor as your governor, or the Lt. Gov. of Satan himself. Is it all worth it?
Try again, junior.....
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