SAVING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA

Let's face it, the Republican Party in California has tanked and they didn't get that way in just the last election. This has been a long, slow process of erosion that can be traced to a lack of... action, vision and inspired leadership. In short the Republicans whimped out and failed to live up to their own idealism and it got em tossed!

For too many years the GOP gambled that they could spend a little time doing minor tweaks on a few key issues, then spin this to the public as meaningful legislation while spending the bulk of the time in session on special interest legislation. Placating the special interests brings in the cash and this is what they thought would be enough to win elections and keep them in power forever. This was an unwritten doctrine that relied too much on campaign rhetoric and too little on decisive action while in office. This worked for a time, but you know the old adage, "You can fool some of the people, some of the time...." and eventually this political ponzi scheme failed and voters demanded retribution. The fall from grace began back with the 1992 election and the GOP in California has been losing ground ever since. Sadly, so has the State.

Whenever I think about the way the Republicans seem to lose ground in every election I am reminded of the term limit bill we passed in the "90"S.

When we passed the measure that term limited politicians, I was all for it. However, I have become a believer that it was the worse thing we ever did. Follow me for a moment and hopefully I will do a good job of explaining my point.

Throughout modern history every generation has become more moderate in their views then their parents and grandparents were. For years it took about twenty years for ideas we called liberal left to actually take hold of the conservatives mind set.

So using a sliding scale from extreme right to the extreme left, I see us constantly moving to the left. What we as republicans, and even some conservatives, fought against in the "60"s we fight to sustain in "2009". We have given up trying to return to the good old days, instead we hold onto things as they are and convince ourselves these are the good old days.

Now we can blame this on a lot of factors but mainly the blame lies with the education system. More recently the blame can actually be directed to the MSM and entertainment industry. The court jesters have stopped entertaining us and are now influencing our political views. (Oh for the good old days when the King killed the court jester when he wasn't funny anymore).

Then we decided that we did not like the idea of politicians who were entrenched for years while never really having any good competition to end their careers. Instead they seemed to be handing down their seats to their children in a quasi nepotism way.

So we got a great idea of term limits to stop the madness. Well the measure passed with a good sized majority of Californians voting to make it a part of the state constitution, and in time even the courts agreed it was legal and binding. Bye bye Willi Brown and others whom we disdained.

Now I look at the politicians who are replacing those who are term limited and they all seem to be getting more moderate to liberal every two years. Instead of the usual slow process of moving to the left over a 20 year period, we now move to the left faster then Hollywood does.

I think I liked the old system better where we were like frogs in a pot of water that slowly cooked us into submission. At least then we actually had a Reagen every now and then who pulled us back a bit. Now the politicians fight to see who can mover to the left faster.

Well there you are, a little of how my brain works when I think too much.

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