Reply #2: You're playing right into the GOP's hands [View All]

Democrats should focus on Question 1: Recall or Do Not Recall? Is Davis a hopeless fuckup or just a decent governor put into an impossible situation by factors beyond his control, i.e. the economy, Enron, etc.?

If you make it into a beauty pageant then Arnold Schwarzenegger will prevail. The GOP strategy is to divide Democrats up into as many camps as possible, and they're doing it. The Democratic Party made a HUGE strategic blunder by not getting behind ONE alternative Democratic candidate to become governor in the event Davis is recalled. Instead we now have at least three non-GOP entries who each have enough popular support to prevent any of the others from achieving a plurality, thus handing it to the GOP.

If the recall succeeds the best hope to prevent a GOP takeover now is for Republicans to split among the relatively liberal Governator, conservative Tom McClintock, and whoever else enters the fray. Face it guys, Democratic leadership blew it BIG TIME. And Davis and his supporters filing their failed lawsuits looks really bad. Davis is sworn to uphold the state Constitution and existing statutes, not what he thinks it should say. Having his own Attorney General file a brief against him was pathetic.