Posted on 10/29/2010 1:41:33 PM PDT by Amerisrael
Between radical democrat Jerry Brown and rino Meg Whitman, Californians have no suitable candidate for governor.
Mitt Romney spent $ 10 mill of his own money in a failed effort to win the Iowa Caucus in 2008. He was bested by Huckabee who spent $ 1 mill on Iowa.
After the big primary showdown of Super Tuesday Romney suspended his campaign for the presidency after spending $ 42 mill of his own money out of a total campaign expense of $ 97 mill.
By contrast rino candidate Meg Whitman has spent $162 mill trying to be elected governor in California.
Thought Romney was bad!
That says something is wrong. Wrong with the candidate and wrong with the message.
Campaigns are a legitimate means of vetting a candidate in the sense that we can learn a lot about how a candidate may govern a state, or the country, by how they govern their campaign.
Item #9 of " Ten Things You Didn't Know about Meg Whitman" :
9. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Whitman was Mitt Romney's national finance cochair and later was the national cochair for the McCain-Palin campaign.
Hmmm....
Tragic mistake that should not be repeated .
Quite sure that the choice of national cochair for McCain/Palin was not Sarah's choice:
Sept. 2008-
McCain's National Cochair :
"Media Coverage of Sarah Palin is Completey Fair, Not Sexist"-Whitman
"Meg Whitman, McCain's national campaign co-chair and former CEO of e-Bay, veered off message today in an interview with Fox News, describing the media vetting of Palin as "completely fair" and saying that there hasn't really been any sexism to speak of in the coverage."
Oh really?
Brit Hume of Fox News disagreed.
(Excerpt) Read more at amerisrael.typepad.com ...
If it’s her money, who cares if she spends it on penny candy?
Nutmeg is a massive RINO who opposes Prop 23 (the anti-global warming initiative) opposes off-shore drillting, opposes AZ 1070, is pro-choice and is a Romney-bot.
As opposed to the Democrats, who spend George Soros’s money!! Well, it’s a free country.
She’s spending her own money in cash strapped California.
I wonder how many jobs her personal money (not taxpayers money) created?
I say she’s a darn sight better than Brown, but that’s not saying much!
Either way, California has dug a hole so deep it will take decades out!
Well after all, Whitman has the media campaigning AGAINST her, not FOR her. That’s at least 100 million Moonbeam gets to SAVE!!
Sorry, but between Brown and Whitman there is a suitable choice for governor—Whitman. My ideal candidate? Maybe not. But a damned sight better than a far left lunatic like Jerry Brown who will turn California into Greece—more than it already is. Jerry Brown will be the death of California along with the far left wacko State Assembly. There will be no one to stop those 2 radical, statist forces from finally dragging this state into the grave. At least with Whitman we have someone to stop the worst instincts of one of the worst state legislatures in the country—if not the worst. Jerry Brown’s prior governorship laid the groundwork for the mess we have in California now including ruinous, onerous public employee unions. And it is in their debt that he will be as governor after all the money he’s taken from them.
Wouldn’t vote for anyone that wasn’t staunchly pro-life, anti-amnesty for illegal aliens, just to name a few important issues.
But then you end up with a Democratic liberal radical as governor who is for those things and a whole lot more that’s bad. In the end, a governor is going to have no power over the issue of abortion and little power over the issue of amnesty. I’m focused on what we need to do to fix the economy of California. Jerry Brown as governor would only destroy us further. At least with Whitman we have some hope of holding down the damage.
It’s her money and no one elses business.
LLS
If $162 million can’t beat Jerry Brown, you live in a F%$ked up state.
Something is wrong with the state. We have more mooches than we have productive people. With the labor unions, teacher's unions, police unions, prison guards union's, a large percentage of the population on some kind of assistance the last thing these people wants is to have someone shut off the gravy train. That doesn't even consider the illegal aliens who will manage to get in some votes.
These people all feel like the democrats can somehow get more money from the "rich".
We are in a death spiral, We have killed the golden goose and now are fighting over the leftovers.
Either that or you have a seriously F%$ked up candidate.
Meg Whitman is problematical. Jerry Brown is entirely unacceptable. Period. And if California conservatives want better candidates with a realistic shot to win (and I say this living here) they had better stop whining and figure out how to develop them themselves, because the party establishment is not going to do it for you.
what’s the biggie here? better her own money than yours or mine, and you can’t say it hasn’t been used to help unemployment... the more these folks spend of their own money, the happier we all aught to be, huh?
Response: We will never get out of the deep hole that has been dug.
Californians deserve Jerry Brown. It’s karma. It may be that he will create such a disaster that Ds will be rendered unelectable.
If you live in California and you are only going to vote for staunchly pro-life, anti-amnesty , etc. candidates, then you will probably never vote again. How is your stance helping California other than to make it easier for rabidly pro-abortion, pro-amnesty Dems to win?
Hopefully, Meg and Fiorina can make up for Dr. Taitz's defeat, but it looks like it's going to be close.
At this point in the game it’s a choice of who is on the ticket. Voters can only choose from those. To speak negatively about one candidate on the list is tantamount to promoting the opponent. To vote for third party who has little chance of winning, even on principle, is to promote one of the others.
We only have the choice of who is on the ballot at this point and need to choose which most closely meets what we want or who will enlarge the party we see as the most likely that we can ultimately built to what we really want.
We still have a two party system in this nation and the vote is one or the other. Once the primaries are over it’s time to rally around the Republican candidate whole heartedly and keep pressure on after the election then begin to look to the next election.
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