low conservative turnout will loom as a key peril for the governor and a prime source of hope for Democrats.
Conservatives take note -- do you REALLY want to see Angelides elected and do you really want to be RESPONSIBLE for it?
You can say that again! And again! Hopefully it sinks in.
But he is a log cabin republican.
In order to receive that endorsement, he has to sign a contract with the LCRs to bring forth their agenda.
LCR agenda is just like the VictoryFund agenda and receives monies from the same source, David Mixner.
David Mixner headed up the Vietnam Moratorium and was a leading anti-Vietnam War activist.
David Mixner was also Bill Clinton's gay advisor and is now McGreevey's gay advisor.
Why does Schwarzenegger have to seek out the LCR endorsement?
"combined with a foul election climate for Republicans nationwide,"
The MSM is soo damn predictable. Every frickin election, its the same "Republicans are falling apart at the seems!" crapola trying to influence the elections.
...and the rest as merely left of center.
(Most disturbing to many conservatives has been his stand on illegal immigration: Though the governor has put National Guard troops on the border and blocked driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, he supports a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for those who pay taxes, learn English and wait behind legal immigrants. "It's just one more policy issue where he's out of step with conservatives," Spence said.)
If that's true, I would side with Schwartzenegger on this one even though I am conservative. It sounds like he's got a common sense defensible position.
Greater concern: does low conservative turnout mean passage of all the bond issues ?
Conservatives take note -- do you REALLY want to see Angelides elected and do you really want to be RESPONSIBLE for it?
Oh, I see! Arnold appoints leftist Democrats to office, borrows like a drunk, chokes Republican small business and landowners with regulations, publicly states he may endorse DEMOCRATS for office, but his Republican victims are responsible for not supporting it?
Um, methinks Arnold is responsible for his performance as governor.
Sheesh.
Bray Davis was successfully recalled for the same things Angelides promises to do. If it happens again, a conservative victory riding the resulting referenda is far more likely, particularly if the $200 BILLION in public employee healthcare costs Arnold has done nothing about comes to light...
That is, it will be a conservative victory if the likes of you don't deliberately sabotage it, again.
Now, let's take a look at that, shall we? Name ONE thread you have started for the sole purpose of promoting a down-ticket conservative candidate.
Name one.
Many conservatives like myself just refuse to live in CA (aka PRK) therefore no votes. My company has been trying to get me to move there for several years now. I have been polite in explaining to them that I think the act of voluntarily surrounding ones self with socialists is an act of stupidity and is incredibly self-destructive. They just look at me with a confused look and then try the arm twisting again a week later. I feel sorry for conservatives in CA, but I would vote with my feet and leave.
If we get less then that, we will die of starvation a little earlier.
The Stupidator
Conservatives have refused to vote for him several times in the past (including the original election and several of the initiatives). Why wouldn't they do it again? He won without them before. If he can again, they would have NO hold on him at all. Way to shoot yourself in the foot California conservatives.
There was no, documented, low conservative turnout last November and there won't be any in November.
Last November, conservatives voted against, with good reason, many of the initiatives that our liberal governor supported.
This November, conservatives will again go to the polls to defeat the governor's liberal proposals, chiefly bond measures, and will not vote for the Austrian.
In the current political climate there is a high probability that there will more votes cast for Lt, Governor than for Governor. There is a chance that Senator McClintock, win or lose, will receive more total votes than either of the two, principal, gubernatorial candidates. McClintock received more votes than Schwarzenegger last June and he might again in November.
This is not about turnout. It's about political philosophy and its translation to junk legislation. This is about two candidates that are not well liked by large segments of their own, respective parties.