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What's the Matter with California?
THE FREEDOM FIGHTER'S JOURNAL ^ | November 12, 2010 | by Robert Tracinski

Posted on 11/12/2010 3:20:06 AM PST by Gomer1066

The most baffling aspect of last week's election "wave" is the fact that a few areas of the country remained untouched by it. When Scott Brown was elected in Massachusetts early this year, there was reason to believe that even some of the deep "blue" states might succumb to a turn to the right. But in November, they didn't.

In California, voters kept Barabara Boxer in her Senate seat, but more tellingly, they voted to put Jerry Brown—the washed-up old hippie known as Governor Moonbeam from his previous term in office—back into the governor's mansion. In Massachusetts, only ten months after Scott Brown, Republicans didn't pick up a single House seat, and Obama clone Deval Patrick was re-elected as governor. And while Illinois voted to put a squishy moderate Republican into Barack Obama's Senate seat and added a few GOP House seats "downstate"—i.e., outside of Chicago—they also voted for a Democratic governor who promised to raise their taxes to fill the gaping maw of the state's public employee pensions. New York also put off any day of reckoning with its budget problems.

On the national level, this is more of an annoyance: it cost Republicans their shot at a bare majority in the Senate, but it's not clear how much the Republicans could have accomplished with those extra Senate votes, anyway. The real damage will be caused in the states themselves, because each of the holdout states is being destroyed by exactly the policies its voters chose to keep on supporting.

A number of years ago, a leftist wrote a book titled What's the Matter with Kansas?, which asked why those rubes in flyover country keep voting for conservatives when it's against their economic interests....

(Excerpt) Read more at ronbosoldier.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: california; democrats; failure; socialism
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America has become once again, "A House Divided" between slave (socialist) states and Free states. Once again the Republican Party represents freedom, and the Democrat Party, has once again become the party of slaves and slave owners. What will the next chapter bring? The Second American Civil War?
1 posted on 11/12/2010 3:20:11 AM PST by Gomer1066
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To: Gomer1066

CA is headed for the ash heap. They are so broke they won’t be able to afford lights and water soon. The rest of the USA has no obligation to bail them out. They made their bed and now they can lie in it.
Any sane people left should leave before the riots begin.


2 posted on 11/12/2010 3:25:10 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Gomer1066

no bailout=reality


3 posted on 11/12/2010 3:26:00 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: Gomer1066

California has a huge non-white population that is always going to vote democrat. As the non-white population continues to explode other states will also do likewise.


4 posted on 11/12/2010 3:26:16 AM PST by Silver Sabre
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To: Gomer1066

Here in IL, Quinn stole it. Brady won, just not by enough. We gained 4 US house seats.

In MA the GOP doubled it’s tiny membership in the State House.

We would have won at least 1 US house seat there (CD 10) but the candidate was victimized by negative campaigning about his personal life.

The gubernatorial candidates in CA and MA were super-liberal RINOs.


5 posted on 11/12/2010 3:27:52 AM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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...voted to put Jerry Brown—the washed-up old hippie known as Governor Moonbeam from his previous term in office—back into the governor's mansion

The last time he was in office, he SOLD the governor's mansion -- a house that Ronald & Nancy Reagan's friends built for them and gifted to the state. I don't know where Arnold was living, but I wonder what Brown will do now to the Governor's living accomodations? When mayor of Oakland, he lived in a warehouse converted to a commune for himself and members of his staff. But, now that he's finally married to a wealthy businesswoman, I understand that he lives in a contemporary mansion that they built for themselves in the Oakland Hills.

6 posted on 11/12/2010 3:29:21 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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Are voters in those states actually voting for libtards or is it just vote manufacturing and vote counting which is the problem? I've made a number of suggestions for what I'd term a Voters Bill of Rights to end the disenfranchisement which demoKKKrat practices create and which our present two-party duopoly of power creates.

A country like Italy with a dozen or so political parties can afford to have one of them to rogue; under our present rules, we cannot.

7 posted on 11/12/2010 3:31:02 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: Gomer1066
What's the Matter with California?

TOO MANY LOAFERS


8 posted on 11/12/2010 3:34:49 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Gomer1066

It’s still attached?


9 posted on 11/12/2010 3:35:36 AM PST by BigCinBigD (Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
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What's the Matter with California?

All that shaking ground has scrambled the brains that were already drug damaged.

10 posted on 11/12/2010 3:35:59 AM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts are holding The Constitution together as the Loose Screws of The Left come undone!)
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“California has a huge non-white population that is always going to vote democrat. As the non-white population continues to explode other states will also do likewise”

A formula for disaster. Whites obviously do not vote monolithically, but certain minority groups consistently do. The reason they do is in part rooted in racism. The democrats have exploited race a long time, unweaving the fabric of our society.

11 posted on 11/12/2010 3:39:35 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I hope that Brown addresses the financial needs of the State instead of the greed of the people that put him in office. But, I won't hold my breath.

Texas is looking better and better.

check here

12 posted on 11/12/2010 3:47:11 AM PST by Loud Mime (Constitutional Fair in San Juan Capistrano this Saturday! constitutionandcountry.com)
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To: Gomer1066

CA has become a multicultural Marxist morass. A caricature pretending it is not. It’s fiscal destruction is also in direct relation. It is imploding. There is no stopping it as that would require acknowledging the core issues. The whole US, I fear, is not far behind.


14 posted on 11/12/2010 3:47:31 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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What's the matter with California? I can't give an answer as to the whole population. It is too big an equation to derive that simply.

But I can give you a personal example of what's wrong with it.

My sister-in-law moved to San Francisco CA about 25 years ago. In every aspect of her being (diet, politics, fashion, social views, opinions, etc) she believes she is superior, and California is superior to any and all others.

Moreover, she has a vehement hatred of Christianity. Oh, all other religions are just fine (Buddhism, Islam, Wicca, Pantheism, Hinduism, etc), but Christianity makes one ignorant, bigoted, and hateful.

Judaism is wrong too, because they "murder" the poor, poor "refugees" in "cold blood" every day.

To her, government is a religion and a god.

Millions of Californians (and Americans) believe this.

That is why they are so lost, so intransigent, and so wicked in their thinking.

15 posted on 11/12/2010 3:49:54 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: prisoner6

You may have a point there. In 2009 I lived for six months in San Diego and the streets were filled with homeless drug addicts. I bet they all voted Democrat of November 2nd.


16 posted on 11/12/2010 3:51:06 AM PST by Gomer1066
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To: Gomer1066

Fashion. It would help that the GOP didn’t throw up ugly, bland, dweeb, Harvard, corporate spooges, like Whitlessman, and her Spengali, Mittens. Brown did, and looked real in a high milage pickup truck. Having Mittens fly coach, and half hour photoshoots with a trashbag, or sitting on a tractor are as effective as Jon Fwench Kerry out in new hunting duds.

Corporate, financial slippery, off shoring, bailouting, Washington subsidy hustling, crap products isn’t a popular backround even in the GOP. Didn’t work for Forbes, Perot( both of whom I liked ) or Mittens or Whitman.

People will take a lawyer over a corporate dweeb.


17 posted on 11/12/2010 3:52:54 AM PST by Leisler (They always lie, so much and for so long, that they no longer know what about.)
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To: kittymyrib

If you dance the tune, you should be made to pay the piper.


18 posted on 11/12/2010 3:53:06 AM PST by Gomer1066
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To: gusopol3

YEAH....TOUGH LOVE, BABY!!!


19 posted on 11/12/2010 3:54:11 AM PST by Gomer1066
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To: Impy

Massachusetts was a behind the lines action. We made Bwarny Fwank defend his backside. He couldn’t give money this time to Dem commies outside the state. Even Clinton and our MMIC( metrosexual muslim in chief ) had to spend Democrat dollars and time in this deep purple state, Massachusetts, the Gay Hack State who’s motto is “Abandon Hope All Who Enter”.

Not much win, but a lot of threat and action.


20 posted on 11/12/2010 3:56:43 AM PST by Leisler (They always lie, so much and for so long, that they no longer know what about.)
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