means staying away from issues such as abortion rights and immigrationWhy run on real winning issues
Abortion reduction is not a winning issue in CA. We've tried a number of times to get just a simple notification of even one parent/guardian before abortions are performed on young girls. Fails every time it's on the ballot no matter how watered down. Prop 4, Sarah's Law, is one example.
Immigration has been a toxic issue in CA since 1994's Prop 187. was struck down by Carter appointee (Mariana Pfaelzer) for infringing on the fed's right to set immigration policy. Gov Pete Wilson (R) appealed but was termed out. Not unlike Obama's DOMA move, in 1999 Gov. Grey Davis (D) decided not to appeal the Prop 187 decision.
Eighteen years later and resentment is very high among a increasingly Hispanic majority brainwashed by La Raz, Reconquista lies, "Mexifornia" spanish-language media and Democrat race-baiting.
Mexican illegal immigration is a winning issue that the Republicans keep running from. Remember 187 won by a 2/3 majority. It was Dan Lungren who caved and walked away from the issue, which is one reason the guy lost to Davis...aside from being an unlikable eel.
Steve Poizner made himself competitive with Whitman by bringing up illegal immigration. In retrospect, why did she get the nomination and not him? Because people are afraid of being called nasty names for pointing out the elephant in the room.
So from my perspective it's a lack of perception and will. Nominating a dilletante like Whitman was a mistake; she really could do a lot more if she were to have taken that 130 million she spent and build up a publishing business in California that would not be a pawn of the Left: TV stations, newspapers, online ezines. That's something she knows a lot about.
Ask yourself about the backbone of Conservatism in California: talk radio. Do we have an equivalent anywhere else in the mediasphere? Hollywood?
Yet that used to be the domain of Americanism in California, and even spawned the greatest role model: Reagan.
So I don't think that social conservatism is dead here, or that it's a loser. It's just not properly played.
The CRP has about a decade to do something, and then it really will be dead, as California simply sinks into being Mexico Norte. They could start by trying to change the media equation with the people they have.
Absent that, aprende Espanol, and get ready to pay the mordida.
“Grey Davis (D) decided not to appeal the Prop 187 decision.”
You left out “and Arnold Schwarzenegger, member of the Bush-Rove Open Borders faction, declined to appeal Prop 187, which he could have done at any time.”