[Carry_Okie]

I am sure all those running around bashing Riordan -- a previous great mayor of LA -- as RINO, RINO, are now very happy with Villaraigosa. Also, obviously he has higher ambitions, governor of CA comes to mind as next step and use that as springboard for the presidency.

But, but, but, YOU SAID THAT ELECTING MODERATES WAS AN INCREMENTAL STEP TOWARD ELECTING CONSERVATIVES!!! It didn't work that way, FO, because RINOs maintain liberal policies that manufacture more Democrats.

Lessee... Christopher was the last Republican mayor of San Franpsycho, Davis follows Wilson, Villaraigosa follows Riordan and Hahn, Democrats ran San Diego into the ground after Wilson... no pattern there! By contrast, after Pat Brown there was Reagan and after Jerry Brown came the Duke. Conservatives follow liberals because the public is desperate to clean up the mess the liberals make. When the "moderates" make a mess (as their liberal policies must) people elect liberals to "fix it," except that they make it worse. See?

OTOH, it was the corruption endemic to RINOs that was the principal reason Hahn was booted. Let that be a warning to you, FO, because at the rate he's going, Arnold isn't far behind no matter what conservatives do.

BTW, you DO know that one of the reasons the Power Crisis was so expensive is that Riordan's boys at the DWP were gouging the State worse than any private company? Such an honest "moderate," (NOT).

Villaraigosa got elected, because as usual, the conservatives are "too pure" to bother to vote.

Villaraigosa got elected, because Hahn got caught red handed. To posit that conservatives were the difference belies the enormous margin by which Tony MeChA won.

In the previous election they couldn't vote for the candidate supported by Riordan, so we got Hahn and then Villaraigosa. Of course, maybe this was what they really wanted.

Is this some kind of twisted bedtime fantasy of yours?

Sheesh.

[Amerigomag]

There was a time when folks were fooled.
There was a time when partisans were believed
The former relied on a rebutable presumption, the later on a plausible denial.
Monday an old man challenged the CAGOP to show some spine.
Yesterday the Austrian thumbed his nose at party.
Today, neither excuse is available to the shill.
God rest ye merry gentleman.
But your effort is wasted.
The threat has gone.
FO has been reduced to the specter of principles lost.

[Czar]

"It didn't work that way, FO, because RINOs maintain liberal policies that manufacture more Democrats."

Being a party-above-principle RINO herself, of course FO is unable to contend with such reality.

"When the "moderates" make a mess (as their liberal policies must) people elect liberals to "fix it," except that they make it worse."

I'll just take a wild guess you are referring to the presently elected liberal, aka Arnold the Magnificent. You know, the guy that was going to cut the costs of state government and "blow up the boxes". So far, he's cut nothing, blown up no boxes, added a gaggle of radical liberals to his staff, and is spending and borrowing like a certified liberal.

"Villaraigosa got elected, because Hahn got caught red handed. To posit that conservatives were the difference belies the enormous margin by which Tony MeChA won."

Another dose of reality for FO and the rest of the Big Tenters.