Posted on 01/13/2006 4:35:43 PM PST by FairOpinion
Maybe, Fair Opinion would be happier in Vermont or Greenwich Village or Paris!!!! No one but no one defends civilization in any of those places. Each is almost San Francisco!
The 18 years I spent on the Central Committee the party wasn't anywhere close to the left wing garbage it is today.
Granted, the last year I was on the committee was 82 when my business load got so great that I had to terminate my political activity which was consuming at least 2 days a week not counting nights.
The total colapse was when Bush/Rove forced that leftist creep Parsky in.
There is no reason that the party can't be returned to it's conservative base, all that is necessary is to vote every RINO out of office.
Since every member of the Central Committee is either an elected Republican or one of their appointments it isn't that difficult to turn the party around.
In 1980 I proved without a doubt that the way to win the moderate vote is to campaign on a strict conservative platform.
I was talked into re registering at my office and run against Richard Alatore for the Assembly to trap his war chest in the district and not let it be spread among several districts where it could do severe damage. In a district that was mainly welfare class mexican and 74% democrat registration and running one of the highest profile democrats in the Assembly I received 39% of the vote with a 26% republican registration.
The moderate Republicans, also being mexican, in previous elections had never achieved more that 29% of the vote against him.
Thank heaven I didn't win, I never intended to, since at that time the pay was $36k/year and not only couldn't I live on that at that time but my business would have been destroyed.
I did scare the hell out of Alatore enough that when he was head of re apportionment the next year he took a 1 block wide 4 block long strip and put it out of his district and into Roos's district.
"F"O: Maria Schriver Schwarzenegger, is that you???? And how is Uncle Teddy????
Not from my perspective nor by my words. Conservatives frequently point out that the CAGOP brought this upon themselves but they never strayed from their principles, feigning ignorance to shield themselves from partisan loyalist's criticisms.
Conservatives have been at the forefront warning the Republicans faithful and hopefully the CAGOP leadership that they were committing political prostitution supporting a liberal to achieve victory. Conservatives repeatedly pointed out just how hollow that victory was.
To their credit some listened. Prop 76, a nasty deception, was roundly defeated by liberal and conservative alike. The CAGOP publicly chastised one of its own when he implied that they collectively supported Schwarzenegger. As Schwarzenegger's poll numbers fell, well beyond the capability of the Democrats alone, this lack of support from within his own party forced the Austrian to fall back to his core principles. First the Kennedy appointment and now the budget proposal is helping to unmask this pretender.
Also, note that McClintock got 45% in 2002 and, as things stand, you cannot expect Musclehead to do that well even with all of his heresies compared to McClintock's principled Republicanism.
We are not here to accept the inevitability of Marxist, lavender and baby-killing gummint. If we were, that would be a self-fulfilling prophecy posing as a strategy. We ARE here to fight and hammer the damnable Demonrats whenever they surface teir ugly heads, drive wedges among them and peel off their constituencies by using those wedges. It works nationally. It will work in California.
Good point.
Would you have voted for the limousine liberal "Republican" John Vliet Lindsay for mayor of New York City over socially conservative and fiscally conservative Democrat from the Archie Bunker neighborhoods Mario Proccacino and Conservative Party Bill Buckley????? Even if you knew Proccacino could win????
WHAT? It was inaction on part of the Republicans that FORCED Arnold to turn to the left. You guys are so full of yourselves.
Yes, you are right. And I surmise that was the GOP point in Arnold support.
Sounds pretty bad. Move to Vermont.
"He sure screwed the pooch with a ton of Republicans/conservatives with his staying in the race as long as he did before. People will NEVER forget that.
I at this point don't even know if the man is mentally stable the way he stayed in that race before.
Sure he says the right things, but when he did what he did at the risk of getting Bustamante elected, he shows us he fails in the judgment arena."
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Thanks for your excellent analysis and summary of McClintock as a statewide candidate. I agree with you 100%.
I am bookmarking your post.
This post of yours is best in show so far! Good for you!
If Schwarzenegger should abandon his partisan pretensions he would be king in California, falling only to the sword of term limits.
The prospect is frightening. Conservatives must double their efforts to undo his reign. For the good of California and in the best interests of the princiles that founded the Republican Party.
"Arnold tried to blow up the boxes, and the people failed him. It was not the other way around."
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Right again!
I am glad I came back to this thread to read your excellent, well reasoned, logical posts.
I am marking the thread, to be able to refer back to your posts.
Seems contrary to facts. Even in Bullhead City some still remember Prop 49.
doodlelady: "Anyone on this forum who advocates voting dem is on the wrong forum."
68grunt: "Unless that is their ultimate goal ..."
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BINGO. Occasionally they even admit it, that while calling themselves conservatives their REAL agenda IS indeed to make sure Democrats stay in power in CA. They always have a good "rationale", but the bottom line IS that they want the Dems to stay in power, so then they can whine happily. Anyone who believes that a Dem would be more "conservative" than Arnold has lost touch with reality, or has as much understanding about the meaning of "conservative", as Bill Clinton has about the meaning of "is".
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Actually, I would prefer that Davis were still governor. We wouldn't be in as much debt because Republicans would not have let him borrow so much money. We wouldn't have a Sierra Nevada Conservancy. Davis would be so unpopular that the State would be far more ready to elect a conservative next year.
As it is, we'll either have Arnold for another four years or a Democrat now that the voters are getting sick of Arnold's ineffective duplicity. Either outcome drives the conservative base out of State.
As predicted.
22 posted on 07/02/2005 3:57:06 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (A faith in Justice, none in "fairness.")
Keep rationalizing...I guess you have to since you choose to live there.
I commend you for your dedication...I just think it's a lost cause. More and more Republicans are leaving California...you know that. I'll be the first to eat my hat if what you're saying is correct. But I don't own a hat...that's how much I think you're wrong.
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