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Wednesday, October 08, 2003

The results of the California Special Election are here. Wow! Arnold got about 48% of the vote.

The voters also decided to allow the state to use race, ethnicity, color, or national origin to classify current or prospective students, contractors or employees in public education, contracting, or employment operations. So, in California at least, we're still being judged by the color of our skin, rather than the content of our character.

I'd love to be able to poll people and find out why so many went for Arnold. Did the last minute smearing by the LA Times (propaganda organ for Gray Davis and the Democrat party as a whole) cause a backlash? Were people just so utterly turned off by Davis himself? Did Bustamante hurt himself with his home-produced ads?

Five years ago the Democrats were touting Davis as a future President - a cold-blooded, efficient technocrat. A year ago, California was presented as the example of the new Democrat future - Democrat Governor, Legislature, Judiciary. We were told to wait and see greatness this all-Democrat government would bring.

Today that's all in ruins.

Davis turned out to be both incompetent and corrupt. All we can hope is that in the dying days of his administration, he doesn't go "nuclear" and start signing all sorts of bad legislation into law, simply to poison the well for his successor. (Don't hold your breath.)

In a larger sense this bodes badly for the Democrat party in general. Their last two US Presidents were useless. Jimmy's turning out to be a decent ex-president, though he just can't keep his mouth shut and stick with his Habitat for Humanity projects. Clinton, well, he was simply a bad man. Now, Davis is ruined politically, and the current crop of Democrat Presidential hopefuls runs the gamut from French (Kerry) to loopy (Kucinich), via the radical Left (Dean).

Somehow I'm reminded of Lester Burnham in "American Beauty": "Brad, for fourteen years I've been a whore for the advertising industry. The only way I could save myself now is to start firebombing."

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