Posted on 03/31/2014 9:50:23 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
... Please give us some history.
RINOs !!!
Wasn’t Burke running it into the ground.
Immigration and demographics.
Please name,names.
Open borders played a big part.
Also the liberal takeover of the education system.
Squeaky Pete and a big lump of Schwarzenkennedy..
pretty much sealed the deal.
Liberals destroyed the GOP in CA.... and illegal aliens. Let’s not hold republicans responsible. That would be so 20th century.
(a bit sarcasm mixed with salacious cynicism under a blanket of irony)
IMMIGRATION. DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES. MOTOR VOTER. EVERYBODY GETTING THEIR FIRST DRIVERS LICENSE GETS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REGISTER. I GREW UP HERE. THE POPULATION DOESN’T LOOK LIKE IT USED TO.
The GOP
FEELINGS
From conservativeaction.org- see section under illegal aliens:
How Democrats Steal Elections - Top 10 Methods of Liberal Vote Fraud
Over-Voting. In Democrat strongholds like St. Louis, Philadelphia and Detroit, some precincts had 100% of their registered voters voting, with 99% of the ballots going to Gore. Clearly, multiple voting resulted in extra tallies for Gore in the 2000 election. (New York Post, 12/09/00).
Dead Voters. This classic Democratic method of vote fraud goes all the way back to 1960 in Chicago and Dallas. The 2000 election was no exception. In Miami-Dade County, for example, some of the 144 ineligible votes (those which officials actually admitted to) were cast by dead people, including a Haitian-American who’s been deceased since 1977 (Miami-Herald, 12/24/00).
Mystery Voters. These “voters” cast votes anyway but are not even registered to vote. In heavily Democratic Broward County, for example, more than 400 ballots were cast by non-registered voters. (Miami-Herald 1/09/01)
Military ballots. Many of these votes were disqualified for the most mundane and trivial reasons. At least 1,527 valid military ballots were discarded in Florida by Democratic vote counters (Drudge Report, 11/19/00).
Criminals. Felons are a natural Democratic voter and they’re protected on voter rolls across the country. In Florida at least 445 ex-convicts - including rapists and murderers — voted illegally on November 7th. Nearly all of them were registered Democrats. (Miami-Herald 12/01/00)
Illegal aliens. These voters have long been a core liberal constituency, especially in California. In Orange County in 1996, Rep. Bob Dornan had his congressional seat stolen from him when thousands of illegal aliens voted for Loretta Sanchez (Christian Science Monitor, 9/2/97).
Vote-buying. Purchasing votes has long been a traditional scheme by Democrats, and not just with money. In the 2000 election in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Democratic workers initiate a “smokes-for-votes” campaign in which they paid dozens of homeless men with cigarettes if they cast ballots for Al Gore (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 11/14/00).
Phantom Voters. These voters don’t really exist, but their ballots do. In the 1996 Lousiana Senate race, GOP candidate Woody Jenkins had the election stolen from him when he discovered that 7,454 actual votes were cast but had no paper trail to authenticate them (Behind the Headlines, F.R. Duplantier, 4/27/97).
Dimpled chads. Those infamous punch-cards were a ballot bonanza for Al Gore. Democratic poll workers in Palm Beach, Dade and Broward counties tampered and manipulated thousands of ineligible ballots and counted them for Gore, even though no clear vote could be discerned. (NewsMax.com 11/27, 12/22, 11/18, 11/19/00).
Absentee ballots. Normally it’s assumed that Republicans benefit from absentee ballots. But in the case of Miami’s 1997 mayoral election, hundreds of absentee ballots were made for sale or sent out to non-Miami residents. Fraud was so extensive in the race that the final results were overturned in court (FL Dept. of Law Enforcement Report, 1/5/98).
I heard from local volunteers that Schwarzenegger put his people doing HIS stuff into all the local places, ignoring the party machine and local pols, and only focused on HIM. The local organization was not strong already, but it was there and could have been enhanced by his run. Instead he remade it in his own image. That’s part of it.
Illegals & liberal transplants
Arnold the Awful. He was a worthless figurehead that seemingly spent more time “on top of his maid,” than he did “on top of our State.” He took over at a time when the RATs were reeling from the recall of Gray Davis (who, by the way was Jerry the Fairy’s one time chief of staff.) He was the local “it’s my turn candidate!” We should have elected Tom McClintock
Hard to say.
Willie Brown has been running the state for 30 years.
The well off have been sedated by high real estate returns.
Prop 13 keeps real estate taxes low unless you move.
Republicans stopped building connections back in the 80’s and the RATs grabbed all the VC/Startup funds.
I’d say the RATS have a long term goal and the GOP only shows up when they need $$$ or votes.
The GOP runs off money, like their Dem counter parts...
After Bush and his 8 years of lawless open borders, during war time yet, that organization will never get a dime of my money.
Immigrants. Hispanic, Asians, Hindu’s—you name it we got it. Glendale is a small city next to Burbank and Los Angeles. The majority living there are Armenians but now the South Koreans are coming.
I don’t mind though because I love all the food they bring with them.
Of course they will vote for the immigrant friendly democrats. They like free stuff too.
As much as I hate to say it, Ronald Reagan’s promotion and passage of no-fault divorce, the first state in the nation, was a very major factor in the degradation of the GOP name, first in California, and then nationwide.
If we don’t value marriage in our policy, how can we hold anyone accountable for deviant sexuality that results (homosexuals are now firmly in charge of California.)?
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