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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What went wrong.
Gloria Allard
Jerry Brown declaring that ALL young people documented or not should have a chance to go to collage. Said CA was a ‘great’ state that can MAKE this happen.
” “I wonder how Whitmans husband and daugters are feeling about the $165 million that mom flushed down the toilet with her stupid campaign.”
I wondered about that myself today. They must have thought “there’s goes my inheritance”. And for what? Kalifornia does not deserve Whitman. “
they can console themselves with the other billion or so she has left to her name. It’s not like they’re gonna be hitting the foodstamp/EBT lines hard anytime soon.
“What went wrong with the Whitman campaign”
She ran in California?
And now she should put some money towards getting that lawyer disbarred for bringing that frivolous politically motivated lawsuit.
Are there grounds for her to sue Alred?
She’s a globalist with ties to the corrupt US economy destroyers, Goldman Sachs.
Brown has the massively corrupt democrat machine. It has nothing to do with hippies and everything to do with ballot fraud and vote buying.
Beg to differ.
Since 2003, when the old hippies rediscovered their misspent youth by protesting the Iraq war, they’ve been wallowing in nostalgia. Jerry’s just the latest “remember when” for these crazy geezers.
No he’s not.
He got elected Attorney General when he wasn’t eligible, and now governor, arguably not eligible because of term limits written into California’s state constitution.
He’s clearly got the labor mafia and unsavory and corrupt ‘activist judges’ who prevent the exercise of the law in his case.
And the republican party endorsed a candidate who never even bothered to vote, let alone care about how the state government is supposed to work, unless she was bribing a politician with a campaign donation.
Ha! RINO!
Appreciate your points, but with respect to those amounts in the table, they are chump change to those contributors, and represent small investments that have more to do with political access than political support. Hedging bets its called.
She was running as a Republican in California. What could possibly go wrong??
Most CA voters are butt stupid. Check out who got elected and how the initiatives went.
The point was that Meg Whitman was a liberal that ran on a pro-abortion, anti-gun platform.
Hundreds of millions from unions. All the poor voting Democrat for welfare along with unions voting for their increased pay and benefits.
A few bits of percentage would be outright liberals.
RINO! pro prop 23 and not pro life...come on now. We need a Jindal type of conservative and then we can win.
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