“Carly was the best we could have ever done there and had a lot of money”
No she wasn’t. She had no record to encourage conservatives to support her. She suffered from having to run along with the hideous opportunist Meg. And there are plenty of Hewlett Packard alumni in California who despise her. Carly was just one more in a long series of colorless moderates that the GOP decides to run for state office, only to lose.
Carly was running in CA and had the most most money. CA is a lost cause - but she kept it as close as was possible.
So which conservative do you think was electable in deep blue Cali?
Don’t name any one who could not even win in the Repub primaries. Those dudes would lose in a landslide with demorats included in general.