Good. Thanks, John. Let me be the first to say that I'm glad Gray Davis is going down hard. True, his replacement will be a pro-abortion nominal Catholic, like him. However, his replacement has never had a spokesman publicly rebuke a bishop for daring to teach the faith.
Other people have lost, too, including
• The Los Angeles Times. They just happened to finish its dirty story on Arnold a few days before the election, which didn't exactly lend credibility to their tales.
• Feminists. Even Maureen Dowd says that feminism died in 1998 when Gloria Steinem defended Bill Clinton's dalliance with a subordinate. They tried to make a stink about Arnold's boorishness...but who listens to them now? And speaking of Clinton...
• Former president Bill and his lovely wife Bruno. Showing the political acumen that lost the House and Senate to the Republicans for at least a decade, the Clintons campaigned hard for Gray Davis and he still took a dive. As opposed to 2000, when Algore lost, and 2002, when most of the Senate candidates they supported lost. Yet people still praise their "political skills," which demonstrably don't extend past their own self-promotion.
Bravo!
Good points all, Eric.
Great comments...impressive comments by Bishop William Weigand--a story I did not know.
And the other interesting tidbit: Gary Coleman got 12,005 votes.
...but he still didn't beat Larry Flynt.
#4 is interesting. I wonder exactly how long people inside the Democrat party will beg for Bill to make personal appearances. Endorsements, yes (everyone always wants the endorsements of all living former presidents in one's party) but the kind of appearances Bill offers look less and less useful. Kind of like having a platform appearance from Jimmy Carter.
Michael, take into consideration the real reason Bill is popular with the Dems: he can raise lots of money. No one else in the party can attract people to a fundraiser like he can, and his wife is a strong second. You're right that he doesn't seem to be able to generate votes for anybody else -- not even in a state he won twice! -- but the cash, much more than the endorsement, is the important thing.
Years ago when the California voter rebellion surged to victory with the tax-cutting Proposition 13, Wm. von Dreele wrote this song spoof for National Review:
---quote---
California, Here I Come
California ain't so dumb:
They gave Jerry Brown the thumb.
Their axes put taxes
deep in the shade;
They're plumping for dumping
all those pols they overpaid, so
If they squeeze you in your states,
jet out to those Golden Gates
where they cut their housing rates:
California ain't so dumb.
---end quote---