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Oops, sorry everybody. I usually read the whole article in its entirely before I post. I didn't do that here.

I read the first paragraph and I was excited at the idea of: California Republicans begin the 2010 campaign season with something many considered unthinkable just a few months ago - hope that they can win a major statewide race.

But then again, I can't really hope of any conservatives in the mold of Ronald Reagan rising in California anytime soon. California isn't what it used to be during the Reagan years. CA's population tend to be more liberal and vote Democrat.

However, I don't dispute the idea that someday, conservatives may regain power in CA again. You never know.

The problem is that if you don't start aggressively challenging their notions of dominance by running candidates that don't agree with the Democrats 85% of the time, how can we ever hope to reclaim CA or anywhere else ? The establishment tried to cow Reagan into not running in '66 because he was "too Conservative" to run against Pat Brown, and they preferred the San Francisco liberal George Christopher because (you guessed it), "he can win." Reagan obliterated Christopher in the primary and then creamed Brown.

Remember well that Democrats don't concede us practically anything. How else would you explain Dem wins for Governor in Wyoming for the better part of the past 34 years (only 8 of those were held by a Republican) ? But as long as you have RINOs standing in the way protecting their Democrat friends, like I pointed out in that Philly City GOP article yesterday, how can we even get our candidates to the general election ?