DATE: 23 Sept. 2003
TO: Various Democratic Activists
SUBJECT: Making Sense of the California Recall Fiasco
Curiouser and curiouser. We’re DEFINITELY “through the looking glass” ...
... unless Davis pulls off a miracle come-back (and that’s not entirely out of the question), the race seems to be in the hands of the McClintock voters (God help us) — if say, a quarter of them decide to not waste their vote on Tom, Arnold could beat Cruz.
This is playing out just like a parliamentary election, as in Britain or Israel. Davis is the prime minister trying to survive a vote of “no confidence,” Cruz is the replacement leader of the Labor Party, Arnold is the leader of the Likud Party, and McClintock is the leader of some ultra-Orthodox party — able to use its leverage as either the spoiler or the power-broker to wrest conciliations from the less extreme Right-wing party.
With all due respect to our allies overseas, I thought this was supposed to be America.
Doug
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