[ambrose]

You think the Republican Party will win elections by opening up the borders and allowing illegal aliens to overrun the state in order to collect welfare? You really believe this?

[IpaqMan]

The Republicans in CA are doing such a great job now! They lost an easily winnable election. Maybe it's time to stop banging our heads into a wall.

Mark Steyn's quote about "the death-before-electability crowd who dominate GOP primaries in California" reminds me of the Greens and the far left. For the sake of "principle", they slip and slide away from power.

As I recall, the national Republicans did not want Prop 187. They saw the writing on the wall and it has come true in spades. However, in Texas, Bush appealed to hispanics and now the state is solidly Republican and growing more so every year.