California--What Happened?

E-mail | 11/06/02 | Alex A. Burrola

[xm177e2]

Only problem was, once that wave hit the Sierras it skipped right over California before heading to the Aloha State. But why?

Because the "grassroots conservatives" here decided they didn't like Carl Rove's handpicked, sure-thing candidate (Richard Riordan), they wanted a hard right conservative like Simon. If Californians had listened to Carl Rove, we would have a Republican governor-elect today.

[xm177e2]

My non-partisan wife said it was Mr. Corrupt vs. Mr. Stupid.

Umm... which one was which?

[xm177e2]

Simon made some small mistakes, but the really big mistakes were made by the Republican operatives who forced Simon to wave around a silly photo purpoting to show fraud when it showed nothing of the sort. Yeah, right. </sarcasm>

[elenchus]

Forget about looking back; we have an immediate problem of critical importance:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786126/posts

[waterstraat]

California has the highest concentration of fruits and nuts per capita. It's that simple.

No, because even fruits and nuts vote republican.

The fact of the matter is, that California has the highest percentage of immigrants, and the highest percentage of new immigrants, who are overwelmingly democrat.

The vote of California and the electing of Gray Davis is just an example of what is to be all over america,

Davis took San francisco, with 66% of the vote. San Francisco is mostly immigrant, mostly from asia and latins, who are almost always democrat. Davis took all the immigrant localities, Los Angeles, Glendale, Santa Anna, Dale city, etc.

These new immigrants are unlike the immigrants of old, who split their vote among republicans and democrats, these are liberals coming in, and they dont like guns either - quite the oppositte of immigrants of old.

There is nothing we can do to stop it, our elections will be controlled by these people all accross the land very soon, since both the republicans and democrats want them to flood our country and to increase our population and congestion to 400 million by 2050, and 1 billion by the end of the century.

[CounterCounterCulture]

sure-thing candidate (Richard Riordan)

There is no evidence Riordan would have defeated Davis. Davis would have slaughtered him.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Although my nick is Texas Eagle, I live in California. I know first-hand that this state is filled with weirdos. Perhaps too many weirdos for Republicans to overcome. But it's worth the effort.

Hey Tex! Most folks in Cal aren't from here. They are from places like Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, New York, Oregon, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois etc etc......... LOL! Ironic aint it!

Me? I'm a third generation Californian. And I agree with you!. Hehehe.

[Bella_Bru]

Patricia, do you know anything about Riordan? He was the favorite of Rove. As mayor of L.A., he signed many anti 2A ordinances. Is this what Bush and Rove support? Are they anti-2A too?

[Psycho_Bunny]

Stop whining. 

It's not like McDermott is you're congressman.

>:P

[Bella_Bru]

And then we would also watch the few remaining gun rights go bye bye.

[Bella_Bru]

Your got me there. No, I have Grace Napolitano instead. Not much better.

[Psycho_Bunny]

lol

[teletech]

I was in California just prior to Nov. 5th and while there I got a chance to see the Davis and Simon ads. First, for every Simon ad there were three or four DAVIS ads. Second, the Simon ad was, to me anyway, annoying. I know it was supposed to make you read but even if you did, all it talked about was who didn't like Davis and NOTHING about the issues in California. BIG MISTAKE!

[FITZ]

The only thing that bothers me about these types of threads is the instant transformation of millions of Americans into 'Hispanics'. All of a sudden ethnic backround becomes somehow suspicious.

You're right to a point. Henry Bonilla is an American and a Republican and a "Hispanic" ---whatever that word means and he didn't win the immigrant vote either. A label like Hispanic is about as misleading as a label can be because it lumps in people together who have no similarities at all. What does a middle class second generation Republican Cuban-American have in common with an illiterate illegal from Guatemala? It's silly that it's being used to include citizens who've been here for many generations and foreign people from other countries.

[FITZ]

The only thing is ---it works both ways ---if someone states they are against massive immigration or illegal immigrants being handed amnesty, there are certain people who'll instantly pull the race card and proclaim they must not like "hispanics".

[Hila]

Let us take this lesson to heart, that there were five million plus Republican registered to vote and only two million plus voted!!! What apathy, what tragedy.

[ChadGore]

We need Arnold.

[Bella_Bru]

As an above poster mentioned, why bother registering if you cannot be bothered to vote.

[Bella_Bru]

Arnold's Prop 49 passed. Of course, anything that requires more taxes always passes out here.

[antaresequity]

California has the highest concentration of fruits and nuts per capita. It's that simple.

Yep...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786286/posts