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FIGHT ON!

The Orange County Register has Get-out-the-vote drive starts in Orange County.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off his get-out-the-vote efforts for the Nov. 8 special election here Friday, linking the importance of turnout to the fate of his ballot initiatives.

“It’s all about how many people you bring to the polls,” Schwarzenegger told two dozen volunteers at Orange County Republican Party headquarters. “The grass-roots operation is everything.”

This week, as absentee ballots began reaching local mailboxes, Republican volunteers started phoning those homes. More homes will receive pre-recorded calls from Schwarzenegger and other Republican officials. This weekend, hundreds of volunteers plan precinct walks across Orange County, knocking on doors and leafleting the homes of absentee voters.

It is all about turn-out folks.

Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Recovery Team, California Special Election, Bear Flag League, Proposition 75, Proposition 73, Proposition 74, Proposition 76, Proposition 77

Cross-posted to the Bear Flag League Special Election Page

FIGHT ON!

Hugh Hewitt in World Magazine has Civility now.

With their actions regarding Harriet Miers, it will be difficult for conservatives to object to the way nominees they favor in the future are treated

Now, though, many so-called conservatives have eagerly embraced the weapons of borking, originally forged on anvils of the left, for use in their crusade against Harriet Miers, even though she is pro-life, pro-gun, and loyal to the president. Those tactics? Anonymous allegations of intellectual deficiency, rumors of scandals as yet unrevealed, hints of jurisprudential unreliability, and—of course—relentless personal attacks.

Remember Ronald Reagan’s invocation of the Republican 11th Commandment?

“Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.”

Flap recommends that the RIGHT heeds the advice.

It will be difficult for conservatives to object in the future to the employ of such tactics against nominees they favor. Similarly, the demand laid down by some on the right for a “paper trail” and certainty on judicial philosophy will morph into a demand by Senate Democrats for the same, and the objections mounted in the past to various lines of questioning will certainly sound hollow coming from any pundit denouncing Ms. Miers now for her purported lack of an “overarching” judicial philosophy.

A paper trail that can be BORKED and NIT-PICKED to death by publicity seeking and television-vain Senators. Is that what the RIGHT wants?

Opponents of the Miers nomination from the right have every right to express their belief that nominee A or nominee B would have been a stronger nominee in their view. They do not know whether the Senate could have broken a filibuster, and they have not seen, of course, background files on their preferred candidate. But they can still assert their preference in terms that do not damage the long-term case for a return to civility and propriety in the nomination process.

My RIGHT brothers and sisters need to give it a rest.

Harriet Miers will have her days at the confirmation hearings. She will either be confirmed or rejected.

“What is the advantage of carrying on the attack of Miers from the RIGHT?”

Answer: None.

Technorati Tags: Supreme Court, George Bush, Harriet Miers, Hugh Hewitt

The San Francisco Chronicle has Howard Dean back in California this weekend.

Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean is back in California this week — and boy, is it getting crowded with Democratic “could be 2008 presidential candidate material” types in the Golden State. Senator Hillary Clinton is here (in Los Angeles Friday), Virginia Governor Mark Warner was here (speaking to SF Bar on Wednesday) and Senator John Kerry also in the state and making news on special election campaigning (here and gone).

Now State Democratic chair Art Torres has told his supporters by email that Dean “has accepted my invitation to join me in meeting Northern California Democrats about Governor Schwarzenegger’s Special Election plans for California.” Expect Dean and his famous oratory to fire up those grassroots Dems: Torres promises he will “speak about how we must enlist every Democrat to turn out to vote in order to defeat the Republican plans for our state.”

Watch for the rhetoric to fly.

Is anyone from Northern California Bear Flag League attending one of his functions to report?

Oh, here they are:

Dean’s plans are to address supporters on Sunday afternoon at the UFCW 870 Union Hall in Hayward. But party chairs are also about money: Dr. Dean is also slated to appear at a $100 a head fundraising party for Rep. Zoe Lofgren at a union hall in San Jose on Saturday night.

All of the National Democrats are trolling for union dollars this weekend.

Flap wonders if Cindy Sheehan will try to meet with any of them?

Heh.

Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Recovery Team, California Special Election, Bear Flag League, Proposition 74, Proposition 75, Proposition 76, Proposition 77, Proposition 73, Howard Dean, Cindy Sheehan

Cross-posted to the Bear Flag League Special Election Page

NO love from DiFi.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein will participate in the campaign against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s agenda in the Nov. 8 special election, as well as an initiative seeking to impose restrictions on minors seeking abortions.

“Feinstein believes that the special election is a mistake. It’s a costly waste of taxpayer dollars,” spokesman Howard Gantman said Friday.

Feinstein, a San Francisco Democrat who also appeals to many independents and Republicans, plans to participate in opponents’ efforts to explain why voters should defeat the initiatives, Gantman said. Such efforts could involve a direct mail campaign.

DiFi is bowling for Union dollars……re-election next year.

Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Recovery Team, California Special Election, Bear Flag League, Proposition 74, Proposition 75, Proposition 76, Proposition 77, Proposition 73, Dianne Feinstein

Cross-posted to the Bear Flag League Special Election Page