It's Almost Over

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Craig Chamberlain

It's Almost Over
Oct 6, 2003

Well, here we are one day away from the recall election. I am glad that it is over. It really kind of funny that I should be that way. I am a political junkie. I eat this stuff up, but this is starting to make my patience(which admitedly is not that good) wear thin. You see the media gives me heartburn. They sit there and with a straight face deny they have an agenda, when any honest person can plainly see that they do. But the media, for all their incompetence and faults, is not the main source of my impatience.

You see it is the recall itself. I have been against it from the start. Now, coming from me a self described conservative Republican this is tantamount to blasphemy.Why would I be opposed to removing Gray Davis? Truth is, i'm not. I just think Californians should have been smart enough to get rid of him last year. Now the other argument is that the recall enhances democracy by making politicians accountable. I don't think that way. They are accountable, and should stay that way. It should just be that they are accountable with elections at regular intervals, not when someone is getting buyers remorse over their choice of elected officals. Recalls in my opinion should be reserved for criminal activity. Gray Davis may be grossly incompetent but he hasn't done anything against the law.Californians made their choice, they should live with it. Now, I admit that I have a partisan reason for not supporting the recall. Davis in power is much better for the GOP in 2006, than Arnold is. Leave him in power and you have a symbol of everything that is wrong with the California Democrats.

Now, back to the media. I am sick of them. 24 hour news stations have been a bad idea. You can't escape them. I like fox news, but everyday, day in and day out recall coverage gets annoying. Especially to the hundreds of millions of people that don't live in California, myself included. If I hear Arnold say one more time that he is going to "terminate" Gray Davis I am going to put a brick through my television. Seeing the recall go will be like seeing the circus move on. You might miss the entertainment a little but you'd get bored if it were around all the time.

Hoping for sanity to return would probably be too much to ask for, but at least it will be insanity that doesn't involve recalling Californias Governor.

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