Is the GOP Dead in California?

Post Scripts ^ | 8/5/09 | Fred Krueger

[Korah]

Doctors pronounce death when their patient ceases brain activity and in that sense, I suppose we could say the GOP in California died years ago. But, in this bizarre world of politics technical death has a whole other half-life. We know dead people often vote and brain-dead legislators do too! No surprise there. And these brain dead politicians are frequently re-elected! We also know that dead beats live off your tax dollars. Yes, the dead are prolific partakers in California politics. If you consider these folks often join forces with those I call mouth-breathers, (they resemble the walking dead) then by their sheer force of numbers they control everything because the conservative is simply overwhelmed.

Die hard Republicans have been loath to admit this ugly truth. But, enough of you know their party is going the way of the Wooly Mammoth. Hey, maybe this should be the new symbol instead of the African elephant, it's certainly more appropriate given the times.

Polls show in the 1970's that fully 51% or more of all voters strongly opposed abortion, but by the early 2000's over 70% supported a mother's choice, as opposed to a right to life. There's that death thing again, which may explain in part why the right considers California a dying state. We certainly have our share of aborted babies.

[truthguy]

Yes you are one of the few who get it. See my post, I essentially say the same thing. Most people are too foolish or lack the courage to face up to the facts. There's no way to have a first world country (or state) with massive waves of third world people. Yes third world people can be brought up to higher levels IF they are in a relatively small minority and immersed in a first world culture. It doesn't take a genius to understand this isn't the situation in California today.

No California has passed the point of no return. It will not recover because it CAN'T recover. The numbers of people who produce less wealth than what they consume now outnumber those who produce more wealth than what they consume. All the economic churning the phony economics types squirt out won't change this basic fact. This is the major reason civilizations decline. The number of unproductive and counter productive people start to outnumber the number of productive people.

So California is lost, as least everything south of the SF Bay area. It simply cannot be fixed. The dreamers out there still believe it can be salvaged but they are fools.

Stay tuned for the calamity.

[Trod Upon]

I wouldn’t worry about California—it’s nothing more than Banana Republic Norte.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Considering Relocating? Think about Colorado Springs…

Outside Magazine just ranking Colorado Springs as the best place to live.

http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/200908/best-towns-america-colorado-springs.html

Outside Magazine lists as a drawback that it might be get this TOO CONSERVATIVE for some people.

As you know, Money Magazine consistently usually ranks it number 1 as well. http://www.ownyourownmountain.com/artman/publish/Gazette_Telegraph_Article.html

I f you or a CONSERVATIVE person is considering relocating, I’d invite you to tell them about this family values oasis. I’d personally suggest Northern Colorado Springs as being the best and the most conservative. And just to lay my cards on the table, I am not in the Real Estate business and make nothing off anyone moving here. I just know that Soros and others have dumped millions into Colorado and have succeeding in taking over the state government for the first time in decades recently.

The Springs loses out to Denver and Boulder in the state elections but it is still close enough to make a difference.

[dangus]

It’s not just the GOP; it’s conservatism. Here’s how dead it is: President Obama’s approval rating is still a sky-high 65%, unchanged since last month, according to SurveyUSA. That same pollster shows him below the red line in states he carried, such as Virginia, Wisconsin, etc.

Conversely, RINO businesswomen Meg Whitman and Carly Fiona may become Governor and Junior Senator of California in 2010.

[budwiesest]

The GOP is dead nationally.

Maybe, but Obama will resurrect conservatism (and has in many ways) by demonstrating his leftist, fascist, communist, tendancies with Health Care, CO2 tax, and a general inability to turn a sour economy around with: you guessed it, higher taxes.

CA is in trouble 'cause the Dems today are nothing like past Dems. Old dems built things (highways, water systems, educational facilities, etc.) today's dems write paychecks, give handouts, tax the crap out of any productive private sector enterprise, and build lavish retirements for themselves and their union buddies.

I can't think of any major project undertaken during the reign of the metro/collectivist-dem. Hell, they can't even deliver on Homo Marriage. What a bunch of incompetent fags.

If I were queer (and I'm not, thank you) I'd be so pissed I'd vote for a conservative- that way I still couldn't get 'married', but at least I'd have a job.

Maybe this sort of defection can occur on a larger scale than we may predict, but one things for certain- the path we're on won't get us where we should be as the richest state in the Union.

In fact, the path we've been taking all these 'liberal state government' years will very soon come crashing down on a lot of people for lack of 'vision' and 'principle'. Momma said there'd be days like this.

[truthguy]

Yes San Diego is one of the last sane places in California, at least SoCal. But keep something in mind. Demographics is working against San Diego as well. Orange County was once just as conservative as San Diego. What happened? Massive waves of immigration (both legal and illegal) overwhelmed the County. Most of these newcomers were tailor made Democrats. Yes there were a few hard core Vietnamese refugees who VERY anit-communist and they voted Republican/Conservative but they were outnumbered by subsequent waves of other immigrants and even their own children. Any area with high Immigration WILL be liberal. Even Miami is starting to change. Take Castro away and the whole of South Florida will be liberal in very short order. No this is a fact of life.

[SoCalPol]

While housing is down a bit, this would be the time.

Housing in San Diego before the crunch was one of the highest in the U.S.

condos in my neighborhood now start around $500,000 a unit to $4 million a unit.
1 mile further to $12 million a unit.

In general in SD homes $300,000 to over 25 million.

SD has the largest number of defense contractors.
They are getting huge numbers in contracts weekly.

Lot of HiTech here, Major area for BioMed and research.
Telecommunications. Largest concentration of military
in the world.

Tourism and Conventions here bring in over $12 Billion a year.

[Clemenza]

Without the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, Obama could NEVER have been elected.

Which did jack squat as far as Mexican immigration is concerned. Mexicans were not included under the "national origins quotas." The repeal of the 1965 laws was intended to benefit southern and eastern Europeans who were severley restricted under the 1924 laws. From 1965-late 1970s, most of the newcomers were from places like Greece and Portugal. Since the late 1970s, the biggest beneficiaries have been Chinese, Korean, Indian, Filipino, and various African countries.

The illegal Mexicans and Central Americans have swarmed in here due to lack of enforcement of immigration laws on our southern border. The 1965 law is irrelevant in that case.

[Clemenza]

San Diego city AND county also voted for Obama and are full of the smuggest people outside of San Francisco.

[SoCalPol]

0 and not by much.
Then again, overwhelming pop. here are from other states.
Smug, hey no problem. Though a native here, my family goes back to the 1620s in your neigborhood when it was still New Amsterdam.

[MplsSteve]

Excellent Post. Very well-put.

[johnny reb]

What!? California HAS a republican party?

[Clemenza]

Folks tend to forget that the "old" families in New York and New Jersey are of Dutch heritage (Scuylers, Schemehorns, Van Cleefs, etc.). We still have some around.

The yuppie/hipster transplants have taken over much of New York (especially the portions of the outer boroughs closest to Manhattan and Manhattan itself). The city has, in many ways, become more "Americanized" over the past 15 years, but still has lousy politics.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Regarding demographics, indeed that is the bulk of the problem. More confounding, is the way Baby Bush flooded California with immigrants for 8 years. I can understand Clinton building his liberal base that way, but Baby Bush sold out the future of the Republican Party to provide a short term cheap labor pool for his buddies to get rich with. Thanks, Jorge Bush!

Democrat registration stands at 43% while Republican registration is 33%.

The democrats have 30% more voters right off the top than the Republicans do. I repeat! DEMOCRATS HAVE 4 VOTERS FOR EVERY 3 REPUBLICAN VOTERS.

The fix is in. It’s over. And the children are being brainwashed in schools to embrace homosexuality, accept abortion, and save the environment at all cost. Not exactly a prescription for future Republican registration.

We California Conservatives are doomed.

OK, there is one slim chance... If the coming Depression gets bad enough, it is not impossible that the Republicans could successfully reveal how the socialist Democrats bankrupted California. Somehow, I doubt that. Not only are they pissing up a rope with a media that is an arm of the DNC, but it would take guts, resolve and daring to make the argument. Our Republican wimps are not up to the task of hitting below the belt, so they’ll roll over and play dead again.

I go back to my initial conclusion. We are so screwed.