I love the polling questions:
Disappearance of GOP lawmakers in Bay Area is:
Good thing - 38%
Bad thing - 30%
Will happen in more places if party doesn’t move back toward center - 32%
Wow, what a nice set of choices. Firstly, the Bay Area, believe it or not, once used to be one of the premier GOP areas of the nation. Long ago, it also used to have more families and more normal people. San Francisco (in the Pelosi seat) used to send a Jewish Conservative Republican named Florence Kahn. The liberals of her era criticized her for her voting record because she took her cue from a New Hampshire Conservative Republican Senator named George Moses. Her response to her critics ? “I’m a Jew. Who else would I follow but Moses ?”
Problem is, the Bay Area moved from Conservative to moderate GOP to liberal Dem and then moonbat Stalinist. In the Berkeley/Oakland district, up until 1959 it was a Republican seat that elected John Allen. Allen lost his seat to a very liberal rodent named Jeffery Cohelan in the ‘58 massacre. Allen saw the writing on the wall and moved to Idaho. Cohelan, who was one of the most liberal members during his 12 years in the House was STILL not considered liberal enough for his district, and in 1970, they dumped him (to his utter shock) for the Black Stalinist and America-hater Ron “Red” Dellums. He passed off the seat to his Communist protege, Barbara Lee.
Once these districts start moving off in that direction, there is no earthly way the GOP can compete, and they can’t move left enough to accommodate the diseased mindset of these areas. Fact is, there’s something seriously wrong with the people that live in these places. They’re insular fairy-tale lands where Republicans and Conservatives are the enemies of everything they hold dear and outsiders in foreign lands that rape, kill, and destroy everything in sight are preferable, and indeed morally superior, to those jingoistic America-lovers in flyover country. Funny thing is, most of them wouldn’t make it 5 minutes in those 3rd world countries they wish to make common-cause with.
Simply put, those people couldn’t even exist and enjoy their “rights” without us Conservatives to maintain the rest of the country. If it ever went the other way around, this country would collapse swiftly. These folks will indeed be our deaths if something isn’t done about them.
What you’re also getting here is the occurance of the majority, or at least a large percentage of the population, living off the government teat. If you give non-producers a vote, they’ll take, and also pass legislation that makes their boring and worthless lives “meaningful” to boot.
Between bums, students, government workers, and stupid people, it’s no surprise ‘Rats win most of the seats. Hell, the freeways almost look post-apocalyptic on a government holiday around here.
It doesn’t help to have so many R’s falling all over themselves to be the best RINO they can be either...
Besides Pelosi and Lee, North Bay has Mike Thompson (somewhat) and Lynn Woolsey. East Bay has George Miller (Part of that is Richmond) and Ellen Tauscher, Pete Stark, and Jerry McNerney (Pombo's seat which did go to Bush).
South Bay has Tom Lantos (Replacement), Anna Eschoo, Mike Honda, and Zoe Lofgren.
And even the Stockton/Modesto seat has Dennis Cardoza (Bush won it in 04).
13 Democrats, and most of them extreme lefties.
Not really, it's more because of gerrymandering. Throughout California and even in Berkeley, Democrat representatives are way, way to the left of the average voter in their districts (and the Republicans way, way to the right - thus the existence of a Duncan Hunter) but they stay in office because the boundaries as drawn virtually guarantee a party victory and a perpetual Democrat majority. It takes an awful lot of radicalism or malfeasance in office to get a politically disinterested moderate to stop voting their traditional party allegiance in the voting booth: "Oh, yeah, I remember Barbara Boxer...she cares about the environment. Check."
Redraw the districts in a more natural manner and there would be a lot more close races.
At least they’re putting up candidates instead of passing.
LOL. We're moving. Someday. Guy Houston is a stand up dude. Bill Baker(R)the former congressman from here is world class.