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Is California Irredeemably Blue? Yes, if Barbara Boxer wins in a year like this.
Newsweek ^ | July 16, 2010 | George Will

Posted on 07/19/2010 5:13:20 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Carly Fiorina, 55, has been contending with chemotherapy and radiation treatments and reconstructive surgery because of breast cancer, so she is understandably undaunted by the relatively minor challenge of winning a U.S. Senate seat in this state that last elected a freshman Republican senator in 1982, that has not supported a Republican presidential candidate since 1988, and that has not elected a right-to-life candidate in statewide voting since 1998. This race will test the power of the rising Republican wave.

Fiorina might surf it from here to Capitol Hill because her opponent, Barbara Boxer, 69, is the Senate’s fiercest liberal, and California is an intensely unhappy laboratory for liberalism—high taxes, opulent entitlements, thick regulations, and subservience to government employees’ unions.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2010; ca2010; california; fiorina; mantra; propaganda; rino; talkingpoints; ussenate
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To: agere_contra

“Carly is not so very different from Boxer”. I don’t think Carly would make such a condescending, arrogant statement. It shows her (Boxer) true colors; red politically and yellow philosophically.

“Do me a favor,” Boxer said to Brigadier General Michael Walsh. “Could you say Senator instead of Ma’am? It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title, so I’d appreciate it... yes, thank you.”


21 posted on 07/19/2010 6:06:52 AM PDT by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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To: bcsco
Along with the Soviet bear and the red star. The red star struck me as well. I didn't think of the Soviet bear...

The Bear Flag was first used in 1846, the Soviet Union didn't even come around until 1917-1918. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

22 posted on 07/19/2010 6:10:40 AM PDT by chargers fan
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To: La Lydia
We should cut our losses.

Might be a good time for a constitutional amendment that would specifically disallow federal bailouts of bankrupt state governments.

23 posted on 07/19/2010 6:11:18 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: chargers fan
The Bear Flag was first used in 1846, the Soviet Union didn't even come around until 1917-1918. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

We're just making visceral comparisons. We're not stating facts or correlations.

24 posted on 07/19/2010 6:13:06 AM PDT by bcsco (First there was Slick Willie. Now there's "Oil Slick" Barry...)
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To: bcsco
Yep, even shown in their flag...

It has a Soviet motif, with the bear and red star, appropriate for the commies in California.

25 posted on 07/19/2010 6:13:56 AM PDT by Spirochete (Just say NO to RINOs)
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To: Durus

But we wont fight them. Its not politically correct. Unlike the Greatest Generation that won WWII, our generation is a generation of zombies. The Government gives us bread and circuses to distract us. Massive debt? Tyrannical government? Destruction of American values? Eh, turn on American Idol! The 2010 elections are a turning point. If we cant rouse the majority of sleeping Americans to vote the socialists out, we are lost. Might as well give California to Mexico. The Mexicans can have the debt, too.


26 posted on 07/19/2010 6:20:16 AM PDT by Astronaut
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To: agere_contra

Huge difference on abortion...read the article.


27 posted on 07/19/2010 6:32:23 AM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: Clintonfatigued
Is California Irredeemably Blue?

You have to ask!!??? Boxer is an idiot, no doubt about that, but Carly is just nuts!! Californians have no choice in that race.

28 posted on 07/19/2010 6:42:53 AM PDT by DustyMoment
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To: bcsco

I left Cal in 06, right before it began to fall.


29 posted on 07/19/2010 6:44:49 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our Troops, and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Haven’t we learned yet? Even a Republican from California will be a liberal RINO.


30 posted on 07/19/2010 6:47:36 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I have a cousin who left around that time (or shortly thereafter) for Colorado. With him as well, it was time to get out.


31 posted on 07/19/2010 6:49:06 AM PDT by bcsco (First there was Slick Willie. Now there's "Oil Slick" Barry...)
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To: bcsco

The taxes and state government regulation make it almost impossible to run a business in California.Toss in 6-7 million illegal immigrants sucking it dry. California is doomed.


32 posted on 07/19/2010 6:55:56 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our Troops, and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
California is doomed.

Yep. I keep waiting to see how long it takes the entertainment industry to wise up and begin leaving. But then again, I can't say they're the most practiced hands at profitability I've encountered...

But, if they do leave, I don't want them coming to my back yard (little chance of that, though).

33 posted on 07/19/2010 7:05:19 AM PDT by bcsco (First there was Slick Willie. Now there's "Oil Slick" Barry...)
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To: bcsco

The entertainment industry is a trillion dollar enterprise. It is one of the only things propping up California right now, and even they are looking to leave. If and when they do, Cal is toast.


34 posted on 07/19/2010 7:08:48 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our Troops, and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: agere_contra

“Carly is not so very different from Boxer, so the point is hardly tested”.

You have to be kidding.........


35 posted on 07/19/2010 7:10:38 AM PDT by Republic Rocker
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To: stephenjohnbanker

They’ve been filming more and more in the heartland to control costs, but what will break the camel’s back is their departure from CA. May God help the region they eventually relocate to, though I might recommend Portland or Seattle...


36 posted on 07/19/2010 7:11:21 AM PDT by bcsco (First there was Slick Willie. Now there's "Oil Slick" Barry...)
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To: Astronaut
Speak for yourself. Sure there are a lot of brain dead idiots today. Groups of people since the 1860’s have worked diligently to make our populace uneducated and easily distracted. After 100 years of the most deceptive practices conceived of by socialists, after our government being invested with their ilk, after anyone that has tried to stop them has been character assassinated, if not worse, they are still just barely able to eke a majority.

We are on the cusp of breaking their backs and we have people talking surrender? For the first time for more then 100 years their machinations behind the scenes are nakedly obvious to anyone that will look. Their “Brilliant” “Post Racial” “Chosen One” President is bleeding supports from his own parties most dedicated. The Global warming hoax has been proven to be just that. Their global warming prophet Al Gore has been demonstrated to be an unfaithful liar.

Despite all of this they still fight on, and guess what, the forces of evil will never stop. If you and I don't have the will to fight on then we shall surely lose. Your concern over American Idol and such is justified, but if you look carefully at the demographics, leftists are far more absorbed by such trivia then the rest of us.
37 posted on 07/19/2010 7:43:12 AM PDT by Durus (The People have abdicated our duties and anxiously hopes for just two things, "Bread and Circuses")
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To: Clintonfatigued

Good old Carly Fiorina, who at HP never found a job that could not be outsourced to India or China or given to a guest worker.

She left/was forced out of HP:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/09/technology/hp_fiorina/


38 posted on 07/19/2010 7:44:50 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: ScottinVA

They thought that about us at one time and the educated them. We can educate them again if need be. Our bigger concern is the socialist mindset that has allowed this problem to persist.


39 posted on 07/19/2010 7:49:27 AM PDT by Durus (The People have abdicated our duties and anxiously hopes for just two things, "Bread and Circuses")
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To: SunkenCiv; fieldmarshaldj; firebrand; ml/nj; Just A Nobody; theothercheek; smoothsailing; ...

Ping!!!


40 posted on 07/19/2010 7:56:18 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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