Apart from the regular Republican mantras such as cutting taxes, Whitman and Poizner tried to show how they would fire people, deny them healthcare and basic benefits, run them out of the state, and make their lives harder in other meaningful ways. Clearly both these former business people mean business when it comes to race, ethnicity, and other controversial issues. Like good business people, they also know how to word these proposals so nobody could accuse them of being racist.
Mr. Poizner will balance the budget by cutting taxes. Already the state has a multi-billion dollar shortfall, but that will not stop Mr. Poizner from making matters worse if he needs to do so to get elected. Ms. Whitman, no doubt remembering her days at the helm sucking up to Wall Street, will fire tens of thousands of state workers. Apart from the moral outrage, one has to wonder how a consumer economy will recover if more people are forced into bankruptcy and more housing will go into foreclosure.
Both candidates acted as if they had just returned from a three year vacation to another planet.
Clearly the debate was underwhelming enough so that no TV station deemed it necessary to waste airtime on such sloganeering. Or maybe they were afraid the advertisers would balk at broadcasting extreme views that play well in Orange but might infuriate the rest of the electorate?
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