But with the RINO Campbell jumping in and making it a two-person race between him and Fiorina in poll after poll after poll, with DeVore not coming close to winning, I’m supporting Fiorina as the only non-RINO who can beat Campbell in the primary.
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Your logic escapes me. You want a 100% conservative but you’ve been conditioned to think that you can’t have that happen in CA and that only a RINO can win, so you will vote for the least objectionable RINO. When you have a candidate to vote for, someone who is a legitimate conservative, you should be jumping at the chance, rather than hoping you’re going to guess who the winner will be. If DeVore loses, he loses. It won’t be because I didn’t vote for him. If he loses, we get who we get and if it’s Campbell, it’s Campbell. Beating Boxer requires a candidate who will attack the Obama agenda, not cozy up to Feinstein. It will require a candidate who is willing to tell people the truth convincingly and neither Campbell nor Carly are likely to do that.
No, no, no. I have not been conditioned to believe that a 100% conservative cannot win in California. Read my posts: I wanted either Congressmen Tom McClintock or Darryl Issa to run for the Senaye (I actually wrote to each one encouraging him to run) because this was thd year in whicha 100% conservative could win in California if he had the appropriate profile, name ID and resources. Either McClintock or Issa would have been ideal, but DeVore could have been it, too, if only he could win the GOP primary.
What I recognize is that a two-term state assemblyman with low name ID and very little money who is polling at 15% in poll after poll after poll is not going to win the *primary* over the two better-known candidates. There is no run-off in California, so even if DeVore sprinted to the finish line and ended up in second place it would not give him a chance for the nomination.
You say that if supporting DeVore while knowing that he can’t win the primary leads to Campbell winning the nomination, then “so be it.” I have to disagree with you on that. Tom Campbell is the worst conceivable nominee for the GOP, a Dede Scozzafava-type DIABLO who would be further left than Boxer on issues such as marriage and perhaps even abortion. He would not only lose to Boxer, but he would depress conservative turnout throughout the state.
So I’m supporting the only candidate who poll after poll after poll shows has a realistic chance to beat Campbell in the primary: Carly Fiorina. She is by no means the perfect candidate, but she is acceptable, and would be the first pro-life U.S. Senator from CA since Roe v. Wade. I can appreciate your opinion on this, and agree with you that Fiorina should take more forceful stands on certain issues in order to defeat Boxer, but I am not willing to support a candidate without a realistic chance of winning the primary if it can result in a pro-partial birth abortion, pro-same-sex-marriage, anti-Zionist, pro-Islamist DIABLO such as Tom Campbell winning the GOP nomination.