Host of Candidates Poses a Challenge for California Republicans

[Nambe]

Four prominent Republicans on the ballot and only one Democratic governor to throw out of his job.

What's the California Republican Party to do?

As the campaign for the Oct. 7 recall election gets under way in earnest, Gov. Gray Davis and his fellow Democrats still have the biggest hurdle: keeping Mr. Davis in office while positioning Lt. Gov. Cruz M. Bustamante as a successor should Mr. Davis lose the recall vote.

But the state's Republicans, who have taken delight in the Democratic squirming, are facing a monumental predicament of their own. They have four major contenders among the official list of 135 possible successors to Mr. Davis, and none of them seem prepared to back out.

Those four Republicans — Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Simon Jr., Tom McClintock and Peter V. Ueberroth — insist that they are in the race until the end. But some Republican strategists worry that their infighting might help hand victory to Mr. Bustamante and the Democrats. -

[The Zanti Regent]

1. I thought Ueberroth was an Independent.

I'll check the Secretary of State's webpage again, but I could have sworn he filed Independent papers!

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. He is a Republican and he 'says' he is running as an Independent.

He is a Republican and he 'says' he is running as an Independent.

And Bush said he was compassionate.

[goforit]

2. Now this deserves "NO PITY FOR PUGS"

:nopity:

[jiacinto]

4. Yeah

But we have Camejo and Arianna on the left to worry about.