Here’s a comment from a reader who (judging by my e-mails) is far from alone in this opinion:

“This is all going to go badly. Davis and California should have to live with each other; the recall is going to let the real villains off the hook and the people of California will continue on their merry spendthrift way.”

I understand the point, but it’s too late to make it. Like it or not, there is going to be a recall vote. If Gray survives, he will still be a lousy governor, but he would be a politically strengthened lousy governor.

No-one should wish that on California.