TRULY A VOICE OF REASON

This conservative is voting for Arnold (Hugh Hewitt, August 13, 2003, WorldNetDaily.com)

When it comes to elections, I am a single-issue voter: I support the most conservative candidate who has the most realistic chance of winning.

In the Republican California primary of 2002, that was Bill Simon.

In the recall election of 2003, that is Arnold Schwarzenegger. [...]

Time for the purists to check their passion at the door and focus on winning. A governor with whom I agree 75 percent of the time – or even 60 percent of the time – is far, far better than a governor with whom I never agree.

A vote for Tom McClintock, Bill Simon or Peter Ueberroth is a vote for Cruz Bustamante.

It really is that simple.

A shocking number of otherwise sensible people seem to feel the opposite, that the 25% to 40% of the time they'd disagree with a fellow Republican would so taint the purity of their own soul that it's better to elect a Democrat for whom they can deny responsibility. That they may effectively be responsible for electing the Democrat and that their position is monstrously selfish seems not to trouble them in the least, but then that's a function of their egotism, isn't it. We're with Mr. Hewitt here. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 13, 2003 9:25 AM