McClintock points to the Whigs as his party dies

California State Senator Tom McClintock’s speech at the recently concluded California Republican Party Convention was meant to counter Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plea for the party to drop divisive social issues and focus on growing the party instead of killing it. But McClintock’s speech served only to remind me that the Whig Party, which he tried to compare the CA GOP to, became extinct.

I am enclosing a number of excerpts from McClintock’s speech below, in italic type, along with my thoughts in regular type.

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