This truism is changing rapidly. Note Howard Dean's success in Internet fundraising.
The more things change... The more they stay the same. The business interests pay up under the duress of trying to buy "protection!" Davis proved that.
The regulation, litigation, consumerist attorneys, the bad press from reporters tryin to "change the world," the pissant "populist" politicians, the suspicious nature in everyone spurred by the media, the labor problems, the mad cow and Alar scares, the EnvironMental Crimes Enforcement Task Forces... But most of all, an increasingly cynical society, jaded by the sensationalist media!!!
It's a wonder anyone wants to build a business enterprise in CA even on the internet, anymore!!! It's so easy to cast aspersions at a candidate and knock them out.
It's not that conservatives can't beat Barbara Boxer because they're conservatives. It's that they get the last second Herschenson treatment to make them look hipocritical because they hold themselves to a higher standard which makes them vulnerable!
Creepy liberals cash in on that at every opportunity. The media love it because it sells ads!!! You know all this!!! Then we have so-called conservatives believin that conservatives can't get elected, that RINO's are the only answer! Bah! Humbug!!!
Conservatives need your ideas and other rare ideas like yours and need to learn how to package them to build enthusiasm!!! Then people will support them because they LIKE THEM, not because they fear them.