Arnold has added Mike Murphy, John McCain's campaign manager, to his team. Didn't McCain lose?
Posted by Justene Adamec at August 24, 2003 03:32 PM | TrackBackrelax - Ed Rollins hasn't signed up for Team Arnold... yet.
Posted by: gdr at August 24, 2003 04:32 PM (Permalink)Sssshhhhh! Don't use the "L" word anywhere within 5,000 miles of the Senator. He's still touchy about it.
Posted by: McGehee at August 24, 2003 04:37 PM (Permalink)Bush defeated McCain, but only because many of the independant voters who favored McCain were excluded from most state Primaries, so it's hardly a fair comparison. Besides, Bush never debated McCain on the merits -- he didn't claim his tax policies were better, only that his opponents weren't Reaganesque.
Posted by: Sean at August 25, 2003 08:47 AM (Permalink)the independant voters who favored McCain were excluded from most state Primaries
That's another way of saying that McCain's support -- for the Republican nomination, mind you -- came from outside the Republican Party.
Had McCain really been serious about getting elected President, he would have started his campaign when all the others did, and not waited until it was already obvious George W. Bush was going to be the nominee.
Posted by: McGehee at August 25, 2003 09:03 AM (Permalink)That said, Sean is right -- McCain 2000 doesn't really translate to this recall replacement election.
Posted by: McGehee at August 25, 2003 09:04 AM (Permalink)It's McClintock's campaign that is making Schwarzenegger beef up his moderate credentials.
McClintock already has a corner on the conservative base. Schwarzenegger can't hope to outflank McClintock.
Just like Willie Sutton's preference for robbing banks ('cause that's where the money is), if Schawrzenegger goes to the left, it's only because the polling indicates that is where there are the most votes to win.
IT'S NOT ABOUT IDEOLOGY, IT'S ABOUT WINNING.
Posted by: Spooky at August 25, 2003 09:28 AM (Permalink)