What part of THE RECALL WAS A DISASTER FOR THIS STATE do you folks not understand? It opened the door for Arnold. And conservatives were the people who pushed the recall, and would not listen to people like myself who said it was not a good idea. There is zero way conservatives can get out from under responsibility for the recall. All we have to do is go back in FR archives and the proof will stare folks right in the face.
What part of THE GOP WOULD HAVE PUT UP ARNOLD IN THE NEXT ELECTION ANYWAY don't you understand? After the way they screwed Bill Simon they'd have had no trouble deeming any conservative "unelectable."
And conservatives were the people who pushed the recall, and would not listen to people like myself who said it was not a good idea. There is zero way conservatives can get out from under responsibility for the recall. All we have to do is go back in FR archives and the proof will stare folks right in the face.
Your case is totally immaterial. After the way Wilson and Rove destroyed the GOP grass roots structure there would have been no means for the primary process to repeat the 2002 defeat of Dick Riordan in 2004. Arnold would have been nominated anyway, as they were planning to do.
Unfortunately, from where we are now, we have to start over by rebuilding the Party infrastructure from scratch. That means restructuring the leadership of virtually every local central committee.