Things are looking pretty rosy for Arnie right now, and Garamendi’s last-minute withdrawal at union request doesn’t make any difference.
Note also that joke candidate Arianna has more support from Repubs than from Dems, confirming every suspicion of Republican stupidity we ever had.
Will these numbers hold up? Probably not. 26% of Dems are undecided, and most of them will go for Bustamante, who’ll most likely pickup at least 60% of the Democrat vote. He’ll also attract a lot of otherwise not-voting Latinos to the polls to elect the first Latino governor in modern times. Arnie, meanwhile, will have to fight tooth and nail with death-wish wing of the Republican Party, most of whom will end up voting for Simon and McClintock. So Bustamante will Cruz to victory in October.
Is he a bad guy? Yes, pretty much. He’s indebted to the Casino-Americans, and he’ll have to support their Sacred Sites land-grab and all the other nefarious stuff they have to do in order to retain the image of victimization, such as stopping research on predecessors to the so-called Native People and on their cannibalistic practices. Bustamante will also be a pawn to the prison guards and the other unions that own little pieces of Gray.
The only significant difference I can see is that Cruz won’t be as indebted to the gay lobby as Davis, whose first real supporter was Sheila Kuehl, and he’ll obviously be way more indebted to the Latino lobby. That’s not a big difference. The people pulling Bustamante’s strings are more to my liking than those pulling Davis’, so in that sense it will be an improvement.
Yeah, maybe Cruz can finally make Aztlan a reality. (Please read the whole thing and the pages it links to, rather than just dismissing it because of the various sources.)
Cruz isn’t an Aztlan freak, he’s a good, moderate, pro-bidness Democrat. The bald guy right behind Cruz in the pitcher you linked is one of the real Good Guys in this state, Chuck Calderon; he’s Cruz’ main adviser, and also not an Aztec.
If he’s a “moderate,” then surely he’ll go out of his way to disavow his past membership in MEChA, no? Recall that their slogan was “Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.” For a Republican, having belonged to such a group would be a disqualifier; for a Democrat it seems to be a necessary condition.
Here’s another article about this:
Is Bustamante the witty ?moderate? and smiling grandfather that the leftist media will portray? Or is he still the ideologue who refuses to renounce his youthful embrace of the pan-Hispanic racism of MEChA and who in a Freudian slip called blacks ?Niggers? in front of an African-American organization?
Will the media even bother to ask these questions? If they do, will CB dodge them and play the victimization card like Villaraigosa did?
As for the “moderate” tag, what proof is there that CB now takes this view?
Lemme get this straight:
Latinos, you can stomach if you have to
Gays, bleeeech
Huh?
shut-up all