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Advice to California's GOP: Leave — or better yet, change
Los Angeles Times ^ | November 12, 2012 | by Steve Lopez

Posted on 11/11/2012 9:26:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Memo to the California GOP:

Rough couple of weeks, huh?

What could be worse? I'll tell you what. In the state Legislature, Democrats won supermajorities in both houses. Do you know what that means? It's like handing your teenager a credit card, a checkbook and the car keys so he can drive to an all-night orgy.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2012
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1 posted on 11/11/2012 9:26:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you do choose to leave, please go to a true battleground state.


2 posted on 11/11/2012 9:28:11 AM PST by Bigjimslade
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...to an all-night orgy.

Haha -- more like a two year orgy.

3 posted on 11/11/2012 9:31:36 AM PST by BRL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other words, revert to being teen-agers.


4 posted on 11/11/2012 9:33:10 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep - Republicans need to moderate their tone.

Maybe reach across the aisle once in a while and work with libs.

Only that can save the party. :)


5 posted on 11/11/2012 9:34:19 AM PST by Tzimisce (Will there be anything to fight for in 2016?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I can save your time reading the article. The writer’s advice is for Republicans to become Democrats.


6 posted on 11/11/2012 9:34:37 AM PST by fifedom
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To: fifedom

I don’t think he has too offer any advice. It looks like they already are.


7 posted on 11/11/2012 9:41:49 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Tzimisce
Yep - Republicans need to moderate their tone.

LOL lot of that going around lately.
8 posted on 11/11/2012 9:43:04 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: fifedom

Thanks :)


9 posted on 11/11/2012 9:45:22 AM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More advice from that voice of conservatism, the LA Times. Baloney. There’s always another choice. Republicans in California should keep quietly working to convince more people to be Republican. Republicans keep looking down the road and worrying. Stop it. What is the worst thing that could happen to California? What’s the most likely thing that will happen to California? The leaders of the Democrat party are grifters. Understand that and use it to your advantage. The Democrat leaders don’t want communism. They know well that they’ll be the first ones sent out to pick weeds in the onion fields. They just think they’re clever enough to squeeze some more money out of the taxpayers without destroying the state. I hate to ever recommend lawyers, but find a good tax lawyer. Make it a game to legally beat the state out of every dollar possible. Quit funding Democrats through businesses that donate to the Democrats. Have a margarita! Go to the beach! Those grifters wanted power. Let’s see how the Democrat voters like it. Life’s great as long as the federal government can borrow money. Watch out if they can’t. The first ones to suffer will be the Democrat voters who asked for it.


10 posted on 11/11/2012 9:46:30 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He’s a big time lib and that article was a tongue and cheek swipe at the GOP. He doesn’t give a rats behind for Republicans. He and the rest of the Golden State lefties are in nirvana right now. Hey Steve, can’t wait for the upcoming articles you write when you’re begging the federal government to bail out your state after Moonbeam and Friends ruin what’s left of it and they tell you to go pound sand.


11 posted on 11/11/2012 9:49:27 AM PST by dowcaet ( for)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey, Steve-O I’ve got news for you. The LA Times is going down with the ship. My advice? Take a more conservative stance and stop endorsing libs and lib props.


12 posted on 11/11/2012 9:49:27 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

California is a preview of what is going to happen to the entire nation. Limbaugh, Fox News, and all the conservative talking heads played us all for fools. “The polls are wrong.” “It will be a Romney landslide.” What a bunch of bullshit. I believed them, and now I feel like an idiot for not seeing it coming. The non-white minorities and the moochers (often one and the same, but not all moochers are non-white) run this country now. They will keep electing politicians who promise them free stuff. We have passed the tipping point where the parasites now outnumber the producers, and no amount of rebranding of the Republican party is going to help us. The Democrats own the media. They own the education establishment. They own the parasite vote. This country is finished. We are going to be a socialist nanny state. They will come for our guns. They will take away talk radio. They will shut down FR and silence all opposition. Idiot Sean Hannity and his “just wait till 2016” crap makes me laugh. We’re not going to win any more elections. We only have a shot at restoring this country when it falls because the statists run out of money and there is a total collapse. We might restore the Republic out of the ruins of the big government nanny state, but forget about elections or democracy. We are finished.


13 posted on 11/11/2012 9:49:34 AM PST by Astronaut
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To: fifedom
I can save your time reading the article. The writer’s advice is for Republicans to become Democrats.

Which is the same message as the Romney supporters that were not ABO voters.

As we have seen this week, FR has a lot of people that actually wanted Romney as the nominee, people who actually prefer his William Weld agenda.

14 posted on 11/11/2012 9:52:13 AM PST by ansel12 (Todd Akin was NOT the tea party candidate, Sarah Steelman was, Brunner had tea party support also.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The solution is to balance the new state of East California against the new state of Puerto Rico.

Each state gets it's fullshare of existing water rights WITHIN the state boundaries.

I think that gives Eastern California a powerful lever ~ and as long as they don't waste it they could even free up some space on the beach.

15 posted on 11/11/2012 9:52:19 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: blueunicorn6

Hire a lawyer to squeeze every penny out of the tax code just to pay my lawyer? What’s the difference?


16 posted on 11/11/2012 9:53:45 AM PST by Liberty4California (Free California from the Leftists.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good. Let California have a taste of Dem absolute rule.

The place will look like Detroit.


17 posted on 11/11/2012 9:54:09 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Get out while u can. Turn CA over to Mexico.


18 posted on 11/11/2012 9:54:12 AM PST by tennmountainman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.


19 posted on 11/11/2012 9:55:44 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One thing that never happens with a Democrat supermajorities,audits most of them have more houses and toys one could only dream of.


20 posted on 11/11/2012 9:55:51 AM PST by Vaduz
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