Posted on 07/19/2015 10:00:16 PM PDT by WilliamIII
As he intended, Donald Trump has hit a nerve.
“We’ve got 15 to 16 very serious people running for president — and one clown,” said Shawn Steel, California’s representative to the Republican National Committee, the GOP’s organizing body. “Trump is a pig, and he’s coming in upsetting every cart he can find, throwing dishes off the table.”
“Intolerable and inexcusable,” declared the state Assembly Republican leader, Kristin Olsen of Modesto. “Somebody who has never been active in the party and is looking for his 15 minutes of fame.”
The derision sounds personal because it is.
For years, California Republicans have tried to change their party’s image, to invite everyone into the pool — especially Latinos, whose enmity arose after a 1994 GOP effort to block immigrants from state services. And now, the architecturally coiffed, anger-venting Trump has cannonballed in, disrupting the presidential race with factually incorrect and caustic criticisms of immigrants from Mexico.
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Ruin their image? Too late for that.
The California GOP ruined its image all by itself.
There’s a California GOP?
Didn’t Cheney get deferments too? Are you also anti-Cheney?
What image? Pandering to illegal aliens?
Now that’s funny. The party of Schwarzenegger being concerned about their reputation.
What image? NAMBLA does more to promote themselves.
California dreaming gop
The Ca gop is not even rino, they are simply non existent, except on the payroll.
But it is okay to call your base crazy. Have fun with that strategy.
Trump received student deferments from the Vietnam draft while he was in college and a medical deferment for 18 months.[118][119][120]”
And your point is what?
That is the joke of the century.
California GOP?? What’s that?
Calif. has a republican party...... Who knew?..
They are jerks. Power wins in politics, not sheepishness.
Cali GOP,,,, image ruined. 15 serious candidates, and one clown.
Excuse me while I go laugh.
Once and former (then every conservative who could moved out).
In Caleefornicate there are the far left Dems and there are the Dems in the middle-— errr I mean the GOP mushy middle.
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