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Governor vetoes Dem attempt to send California surrender message to troops.

By Mark Kilmer Posted in State Politics — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

According to the Los Angeles Times, California Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, (D-Berkeley) feels that many Californians took to the streets to protest the Vietnam war. Fair enough. UC Berkeley, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, Moonbeam, Manson, "Legalize Dope!" That was all California stuff. But Senator Perata wants to prevent this taking to the streets nonsense, so he has proposed an official opinion survey of California voters as a means of forcing our troops in Iraq to accept defeat on behalf of our civilian leaders. And the California legislature approved this political gimmick and sent it on to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk.

Senator Don Perata and his politically-juiced ilk want to put "CUT AND RUN" on the ballot in next February's Presidential primary election, to have Californians choose between victory and defeat. Senator Perata thinks the results will be unanimous:

"With the possible exception of George Bush, we all know it's time to go," Perata said earlier this year. "If the biggest state in the nation says 'end the war now,' maybe it will start to sink in."

George Bush is a Texan, thus he gets no vote in California; since everyone else knows that it is time to GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW!, his measure will pass unanimously. But it won't. Senator Perata lives in his own little version of reality in which "consensus" can be invented and falsely asserted to end debate on an ideologically-driven item still not proven by evidence. (See: Anthropogenic Global Climate Change.)

This is a political gimmick.

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It is a political gimmick which has been vetoed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"Public opinion polls have confirmed again and again that Californians are sharply divided, as are all Americans, as to when and how our troops should be withdrawn," Schwarzenegger said in his veto message issued early on Wednesday. "We do not need an advisory ballot to understand this deep divide."

"The decision to engage in or withdraw troops from war is a federal issue, not a state issue."

It is a political gimmick. It looks good to the lefty fringe, the MoveOn.org types, those who have crafted the means by which they can tell the Democratic Party how high to jump and through which hoop. (The lefty interests have long since taken over that asylum, but they've become markedly better at it in recent years.)

We are having a national debate on the future of Iraq, but few minds are being changed. The trenches are shelled until one of them – of late, the lefty mud-fortifications – begin to collapse and cave.

We've just suffered from a glimpse into the imaginary "reality" of corrupt buffoon Don Perata, who wanted so desperately to appease the lefty nuts that he offered to try to have Californians publicly state that they do not support our troops in Iraq.