Posted on 11/03/2010 2:21:29 PM PDT by JoeA
In the springtime, strategists for Meg Whitman in her campaign for governor of California probably felt they’d died and gone to heaven in. In a state roiled in political in-fighting, effectively bankrupt, and a political atmosphere in which the electorate was sharpening pitchforks and boiling tar, you had a non-political woman, an internet legend, immensely successful, running as a moderate Republican, which all the pundits agree is the only way for Republicans to get elected in California. Meg Whitman, the first female billionaire in fact, with all the private money available one could ever hope to spend. And the opponent? Laughable, really. A former two-term governor who earned the moniker “Governor Moonbeam” for outlandish ideas, who turned the state’s large surplus into large deficit, raised taxes, and left it with a (then) record unemployment rate and a shrinking economy.
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Meg will get the last laugh as California continues to tank under even more liberal policies. She should open a business in Texas and make it successful with many jobs just to taunt them.
Meg should have just bought Mexico.
Every single week, Gov. Palin took on Obama and the corrupt DNC.
The other RINOs (led by Rove, Cornyn, the NRSC) attacked
select GOP-election-chosen candidates thought to eventually be a threat
to .... Mitt Romney.
Meanwhile, Romney’s poodles in California and Massachusetts
appear to have been clubbed to death by citizens who hate Romney,
his surrogates and his RomneyCARE.
The simple answer is that Whitman didn’t have the nostalgia factor for old hippies that Brown does.
Government is a generational thing. Like it or not, the old hippies are in charge. But luckily their time is growing short.
The simple answer is that Whitman didn’t have the nostalgia factor for old hippies that Brown does.
Government is a generational thing. Like it or not, the old hippies are in charge. But luckily their time is growing short.
The simple answer is that Whitman didn’t have the nostalgia factor for old hippies that Brown does.
Government is a generational thing. Like it or not, the old hippies are in charge. But luckily their time is growing short.
Yow! Apologies for the hiccup!
“What went wrong with Whitman Campaign” She had it in California.
America should divorce CA.
LOL!!! True indeed!
Meg is the latest episode in a long line of people
who made lots of money in one field using that money
(and pride) to buy themselves in a situation they
haven’t earned the skills and experience to thrive
within.
Think the doctors who died on top of Mount Everest.
Plenty of money to hire porters to lead them up there,
buy travel and equipment. In the end, they did not
have the skills or experience needed to stand on
Everest and thrive.
my 2 cents.
ampu
“Meg will get the last laugh as California continues to tank under even more liberal policies”
I think that the true conservatives will get the last laugh as California careens over the cliff with only the democrats to blame. The GOP controlled house of represantives is unlikely to bail out California. I don’t feel bad about Whitman’s defeat.
I wonder how Whitmans husband and daugters are feeling about the $165 million that mom flushed down the toilet with her stupid campaign. She needs to find a hobby.
This year, a “moderate Republican” was not going to energize anybody.
She ran in California. That’s what went wrong.
I’m pretty sure it’s a UNION thang.
All business that can leave, should leave!
Why help the socialists?
Come to Wisconsin, we our open for business!
250,000 conservatives votes would turn this state blue forever!
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