Recalling Davis may feel good but be a poor policy for Republicans

Currently, there is a drive in California to recall Gov Davis and toss him from office a year after he got reelected. A number of Republicans are hoping they can unseat him and replace a Democrat with a Republican before the 2004 election.

I think they are nuts.

The Republicans are fools to want any person in state wide office in California at this time. At this moment, the Democrats control the Executive and Legislative branches of the government and cannot blame anyone for their mistakes. If the Republicans do recall Davis and replace him with anyone (even Arnold S), then the new Governor gets all the bad press about cutting education and health care and since it would be a Republican making the cuts, he would become a rallying cry for the Democrats to use and increase their majorities in the Assembly and Senate as well as win the US Senate seat and hand the Democratic nomination California’s electoral votes in the Presidential election. That would be bad.

However, if Davis is kept as the Governor, HE can cut the programs he started and try raising taxes and the Democrats will have to run on that record in 2004.

Having said that, I did sign the petition to recall Davis and would be tempted to vote him out of office. However, I don’t know if I would vote for a Republican to replace Davis because he/she won’t be able to get any meaningful reforms or spending cuts through the Legislator and yet will get all the bad press letting the Assembly and Senate off the hook. Let the Dems have all the fun of fixing the problem.