Is the CA GOP dead? Maybe...

Breitbart.com ^ | 08/08/12 | Adam Sparks

[kenmcg]

The whole friggin state is dead!!!

[Theodore R.]

That is so right; look how our uninformed Republican primary voters saddled us with another liberal nominee this year. People are too uninformed to save the country.

[vette6387]

“The demise of the Republican party in California simply means Americans have been out bred by aliens. California’s fate merely points to the method by which America is being conquered by the Third World.”

It’s called “Death By Penis!” The Mexicans only social “outlet” is procreation. And they are even better at it than the Blacks here in California, which is saying a lot!
We are just getting used to the “Beaner Music” blaring from car radios that have been turned all the way up and had the volume knobs pulled off!

[fifedom]

I hate to rain on the gloom and doom party but the original article and many posters here have it wrong.

A. The Dems cannot just pass anything they want. The most important fact is that prop 13 is still in effect so they need a 2/3 majority to increase taxes or fees. And they do not have enough votes and the June primary results indicate they will not get it.

B. Judges do not overturn every good initiative. Far from it. Prop 13, Prop 209, the CA initiative forbidding racial preferences, even Prop 8, the traditional marriage initiative are still in effect. The Left has taken them to court many times and always lost.

C. Moonbeam's tax raising initiative is in big trouble. Even with a full court press by the media about the terrible things that will happen if it does not pass, the voters ain't buying it. He made a strategic blunder by including a sales tax increase, which everyone including the illegals has to pay. The voters here seldom vote to increase their own taxes.

Rumors of the death of the CAGOP are greatly exaggerated.

And BTW, the article was not well researched. Meg Whitman became CEO of HP after the election.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

YORBA LINDA (1994) — Former Republican Cabinet Secretary Jack F. Kemp . . . defended his condemnation of Proposition 187, the illegal immigration reform measure on the Nov. 8 state ballot . . . [it was] his first public discussion of his opposition to the initiative [and] puts him at odds with the state Republican Party . . . [Kemp] told the audience not to "scapegoat the problems of California on immigrants because they are not the source of the problem" . . . [both] Kemp and William J. Bennett, another former Republican Cabinet secretary, had prepared a statement strongly opposing the anti-immigration initiative . . . Kemp and Bennett . . . believe Proposition 187 . . . may "contribute to a nativist, anti-immigrant climate." . . . Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) issued a stinging rebuke of Kemp. "His act of stupidity has knocked him right out of the presidential race," Rohrabacher told reporters. "If he disagreed with it, he should have kept his mouth shut. . . . Jack Kemp wants to be loved. The man is using his heart, but that's not the organ of the body meant for thinking." [End of quotes from a LA Times article]

That was the beginning -- even before we passed Prop187 by about 60/40 and where about 30 percent of Californians came out to vote solely because of the Save Our State initiative -- of years of Kemp, Bennett, Jeb Bush, and the like condemnation and name-calling of the California Republican Party and its "wrong-headed," "mean-spirited," "bigoted," "racist," "hateful," "anti-immigration" policies. They wanted the Republicans to be more sensitive while opposing big taxes and too much regulations. Basically, it seems to me, making them Democrats who oppose high taxes and too many regulations on businesses.

The state Republicans agreed with the national Republican elites' stupidity and it knocked the state Republicans right out of statewide races.. I think that the Republicans have won three state-wide races since then.. Wilson (1994), an insurance commissioner (he was recalled IIRC), and Schwarzenkennedy.

[Vendome]

It’s dead Jim.

[newzjunkey]

Prop 187 was a generation ago.

The fact is Democrats have run both halves of the California legislature continuously for 40 years with the exception of two years for the assembly in '95/'96.

Conservatives couldn't get elected dog catcher in 85% of CA.

[SwankyC]

Ok, so what. Prop 8 was a week ago and conservatives get elected to California everywhere except San Fran and parts of L.A.

Yes, communists still completely control the assembly tho.

[SwankyC]

Ok, so what. Prop 8 was a week ago and conservatives get elected to California everywhere except San Fran and parts of L.A.

Yes, communists still completely control the assembly tho.