“You keep referring to this in terms as if you believe this vote means Roherbacher is a closet Leftist.”
No, actually I believe the conservatives are screwing the pooch. I was born and raised in California, and understand the system there as much as anyone.
Voting in a way to protect a seat in California for a conservative is not based upon getting liberal votes. Liberals in California don’t vote for a conservative for anything. He’s in there based upon the conservative votes he got. With the attitude of the liberals in California and their go for the jugular on anything and everything, he won’t hold a seat for California unless he earns his groups vote. He won’t get theirs. So, do I think he’s a closet leftist, absolutely not. If he got a seat from California as a conservative, he damn sure earned it. But not from liberals. So that misnomer of his keeping his seat by placating liberals is a wonderful thought. Just not a possible one.
The only way to win with liberals is to swat them on to their keyster. It has to be done every time, every way, as much as possible. Liberals take advantage of every loophole whether it is one or not. I’m sure you can come up with a number of incorrect phrases, better known as lies, to accomplish something by taking away something else.
In my writing here I hope I have offered you the chance to re-think what voting for a bill to save a seat using people that probably, and in my mind didn’t, vote them into office. They are not impressing anyone on the left by voting this way for a lost bill vote to keep a seat when everyone knows they did it to pander. That cat was out of the bag as soon as they did it. So they could have voted for the bill like their counterparts and not be foolish enough to think they were fooling the libs? Or they could have abstained and not hurt or helped anyone of which I feel is being disingenuous to both.
You can’t give liberals an inch. You can’t placate them as they have already made a decision on you based upon your party choice. You can’t do anything for them as they hate and do not trust you, and you can’t make deals with them as they can’t be trusted or given a thing they can use against you because they will.
Anything else is not winning, it’s breaking even. And that’s a loss.
rwood
Since you lived in California, it has gone full on Leftist.
We now have cross over voting, and in general elections we now choose between the top we people who got the most votes in the primary.
Next year we will vote between two Democrats for governor. Last year we voted between two for U. S. Senator.
Roeherbacher will face this.
He did the right thing.
The bill passed just as they knew it would.
Try and be happy.