If Californians are upset about the state’s deficit, they should have voted against the recall, which is estimated to cost anywhere between $30 million and $66 million.

But since California voters did vote for the recall show to go on, the question is, who will replace Gray Davis?

This recall is just an outrageous attempt by Republicans to steal an election that was legitimately won by Davis not too long ago.

Davis may be unpopular, but if the recall succeeds, Californians may have to deal with someone worse.

Take a look at the nation as a whole with George W. Bush as president. The nation is $455 billion in debt and that is expected to grow to $474 billion by 2004, according to a July Times-Picayune article.

“The Bush policy is the worst policy in the last 200 years,” said George A. Akerlof, a 2001 Nobel Laureate in economics, in an Associated Press article.

The nation’s economy has notoriously done worse with Republicans in charge.

And who of all people would be the frontrunner Republican candidate in the California recall election? None other than Arnold Schwarzenegger, aka “The Terminator,” who has no political experience whatsoever.

Schwarzenegger has said he will participate in one debate in which he will receive the questions ahead of time. Could it be possible that he is unable to answer the tough questions on his own?

According to a Knight Ridder/Tribune article Sunday with the headline, “Records indicate Schwarzenegger violated terms of immigrant visa,” Schwarzenegger has been against illegal immigration in his campaign to become governor.

The article states that Schwarzenegger received a salary in the United States his first year here but did not have the proper visa to do so. He had a B-1 visa, which allowed him to compete here as an athlete but does not allow him to draw a salary from a company here in America, which the article maintains he received. This seems hypocritical.

Schwarzenegger did not remember if he earned any money during his first year in America, according to the article. Sure he doesn’t. If you’ll believe that, you’ll believe anything.

If the recall succeeds, it may not be California’s last. There will be nothing stopping another recall from happening when one party decides to take on another.

Gray Davis may not be the best governor California has ever had, but do we want to risk electing one who is worse?

For California’s sake, vote no on the recall.