Posted on 10/27/2010 12:21:48 AM PDT by Scanian
It's November 3, 2010. You think you are waking up to a sunny California morning only to realize it's a dark, dark day. Jerry Brown is governor, Gavin Newsom is lieutenant governor, Kamala Harris is attorney general, and the rest of the Democrat ticket has prevailed. California is going to be controlled by San Francisco politics.
Got your attention now?
Tea Party folks have brought a refreshing candor to the conservative scene, demanding from conservative candidates a return to conservative principles. But we don't live in a perfect world. And in California, we live in a deeply skewed political landscape that requires finesse and strategic thinking to turn California red again. It cannot happen overnight, and those who try to make it happen today rather than tomorrow will be responsible for the worst-case, but not unlikely, nightmare scenario outlined above.
Many Tea Partiers aren't happy with the Republican choices for certain offices and are pushing voters to cast their ballots for last-minute conservative candidates who, they believe, more readily pass the conservative sniff test than some of their Republican counterparts. Admittedly, some of them just might be more conservative.
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Nope.
It appears that "bash California" is just the fashionable thing to do, facts be damned. And if it means calling freepers names, misrepresenting their posts, or throwing out mindless (and untrue) accusations, it's just part of the game. It would help if some of these folks actually read what you posted, though.
You seem to be doing just fine setting the record straight, but I'll add a few:
States whose pension liability per capita is worse than California's: Minnesota, Wyoming, New Mexico, Hawaii, Colorado, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, Alaska, Ohio, Rhode Island (the last 4 being 35%-55% greater than CA)Maybe they will go play in another sandbox for a while.States whose debt liability per capita is worse than California's: Rhode Island, Illinois, Washington, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii,Massachusetts, Connecticut (the last 4 states listed have more than 2X the per capita debt as CA)
States whose Gross State Product ($Bil) per capita is less than California: All of them!
The last infestation gave us Schwarzenegger as Governor.
Meant to post link for source:
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/44/debt-10_Global-Debt-Crisis_Rank.html
Good Job CO! I’m 77, been retired 18 years and still pay more in Fed taxes then 80% of Texans...
“.......Meg Whitman may well turn out to be another Arnold, but at least going in she has a chance to demonstrate she intends to do far better. Am I
Meg Whitman has made it very clear that she is going to be a Mitt Romney style Governor. Mittens and Meg are well acquainted with each other and they are fast friends. Heck, Mitt even moved to California to help her with her campaign. Can you spell RINO?
Meg better than Arnold? No way.....she’ll be magnatudes worse. Still she’ll be better than Moonbeam Brown hands down.
Go Home East Coasters...... leave California alone! Go back to MA, go back to NY, NJ, MD, PA, etc etc.
We are bankrupt as a nation and the sooner we file the better.
I share in your optimism — or lack thereof.
[My attempt at saying something nice of the situation, LOL]
Do you share the opinion that a major problem in CA is that too many “makers” have left, leaving the state for the most part to “takers?”
IF Meg is elected and goes after the public employee unions, she will have to take on such groups as the cops, the teachers, the firefighters and the prison guards. She will have to reduce prison populations. She will be vilified from one end of the state to another. She will be painted as an enemy of education and weak on criminal justice. Governor of California will almost certainly be her last elected position and she will be unlikely to win a second term.
Why would anyone in her right mind spend over 100 million dollars for this?
Rather than saying "...she will be better than Moonbeam Brown hands down" I would put it that she will not be as bad as Jerry Brown (it would be very difficult for anybody to hit that depth of abject failure). I agree with your east coasters comment.
The CAGOP, in league with Big Tent RINO Central, really gave us a teriffic slate of candidates didn’t they? If they think they are starved for cash this year, wait until next year as more and more conservative voters switch over to donating directly to conservative candidates.
“Rather than saying “...she will be better than Moonbeam Brown hands down” I would put it that she will not be as bad as Jerry Brown (it would be very difficult for anybody to hit that depth of abject failure).”
upon reflection I agree yours is the better way to phrase it.
I wonder about that poll though....”It’s Chinatown Jake!”
“It’s the Field Poll, Jim!”
I think that the race will be a lot closer than the press/pollsters give credit to......could still go either way though I must say the housekeper thing has many Republicans turned off to Meg.....give the Dems applause... a successful smear job that has had the intended effect......spit! Meg , like Romney, and McCain does better at running against other Republicans than she does opposing Democrats.....even serverly flawed ones like Brown!
2011 is probably the year that I will de-register as a Republican.
With the open primary, there has been talk that the “leadership” will choose one Republican candidate around which we can coalesce so as no to “split the conservative vote”. I’m pretty sure I’m not going to like their choice — so why should they get to count me as a member of “their” party? They’ve done almost nothing I’ve liked for the last decade — it may be time for a divorce.
I agree — donate to the worthy candidates. That is a good start.
I've been reflecting on doing the same.
Glad to hear I’m not alone. I may be missing something, but I see no advantage to being registered anymore. Before, it was to have a certain voice in the primary. With the open primary, that consideration is no longer a factor. Perhaps I’ll wait until the 2012 primaries start to line up before making a decision. If the “leadership” tries to pick our candidate for us, I’ll go independent pretty darn quick.
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