Actually Bush is a pretty bad president, BUT, put up against *any* democrat
and the decision is childsplay... This is what we are voting for in this
day and age- the lesser of two evils. Democrats like to brag that they are
so much better educated and much more intelligent, but they are actually
simply more morally corrupted. I mean they can't even keep a Dem as a
Governor of California, the most wacky state in the union....
uh, have you looked at the case against gray davis. I think you can
make a fill in the blank here as whoever is governor would have taken
the hit. republican democrat, libertarian, or green. He is
goevernor during a serious economic downturn. It's not like he broke
the law.
He came pretty damn close. Davis is facing recall because of a myriad of
factors, what the SF Chronicle labels the confluence of events like the perfect
storm: an atmosphere of sleaze brought on by his aggresive fundraising (he even
hit up Democratic college students!), making people think he's more concerned
about his donors than the constituents; his pandering to special interests, which
alienated many grassroots Democrats; his absolutely incomprehensible act of
alienating members of his *own* party (he told Demos in the legislature that it's
his way or the highway); the energy crisis that Davis at first ignored then tried
to spin out of, even though it wasn't really his fault; and the budget problem,
which was exacerbated by him by increasing spending like there was no tomorrow,
then when the recession wiped out the tax revenues, ignoring it at first, then
putting off the problem during the election year, causing more problems. He
promised to make structural changes to the state tax system to prevent problems
from occuring in the new budget but it was all talk.
So you have a governor who:
- the people blame for the power problem (unfairly);
- the people view as being corrupt and beholden to special interest;
- the people view as indecisive or unwilling to make tough choices;
- the Democrats in the legislature (and in other state elected positions) do not
like very much since he arrogantly tried to carry out his agenda w/o much
cooperation from them;
- the same Demos are not afraid to ignore or challenge. The Senate leader, the
Controller, and even the Lt. Gov, (all Demos) have opposed him for their various
agendas.
- never had a core constituency since his election strategy in both elections was
to paint his opponents less desireable than himself.
- the voters never really felt energized about.
In all, you got a governor who will probably be recalled.
Having said that, I for one will vote against the recall. I am a Republican who
has utter contempt for Davis and have never voted for him. However, this recall
goes against the principles of republicanism; we vote for the politicians who
represent us. A plurality of voters voted for Davis, most of them probably
ignorant or uncaring about his lack of honesty, lack of will to tackle tough
problems, and his political incompetency. Well, they made their bed, they should
have to lie in it. Besides, why would anyone want to be governor of CA right
now? It's like taking the head coaching job for the NFL's Bengals after they
traded away all their marquee players.
I think the president during the great wall street crash v
1.0 was booted as well.
Hoover lost to Roosevelt 3 yrs after the 1929 Crash, mainly because he was
perceived as uncaring, much like what brought Bush pere down. He was inflexible
w/ his thinking to do some of the radical things Roosevelt did; however,
Roosevelt's plans didn't bring the US out of the doldrums until WW2 started and
the US govt. injected trillions of dollars into the (war) economy.
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