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An excellent speech by McClintock!

McClintock is putting the blame of CA's problems right where it belongs, on the Democrats.

"You want to know what kind of damage 34 years of Democratic majorities in a state legislature can cause – especially if you combine them with the last five years under a Democratic Governor?

That’s what the Democratic Party can do to a state when people don’t pay attention to how they’re voting. "

But judging from some of the posts in this thread, some people still don't get it.

McClintock is talking about what a prolonged Dem government did to California, how it destroyed it.

Any reasonable person would see that the answer is to get rid of the Democrats.

But the posts I see go back to the usual whine -- "we want to stand on principle and keep electing Democrats, who can keep on destroying California, so we can keep whining, and attacking other Republicans".

If you don't listen to anyone else, for heaven's sakes, LISTEN TO MCCLINTOCK!

The reason the Democrats can keep destroying California is gerrymandering. I watched in 1962 as they gerrymandered that state to within an inch of its life. The California Senate is 28 to 17 and the Assembly is 50 to 30 and will continue to be so for the next 30 to 50 years no matter how the people vote.

With a locked in control of both houses of the legislature and enough crooked judges to start their own Supreme Court, California Demos can lock up the voting anytime they are allowed a Democratic governor following a national census.

And in every society – in every political debate – isn’t there always another group – smaller but more domineering – who believe that they’re so good at running their own lives that they’re now entitled to run everybody else’s.

Those are really the only two parties that have ever existed. They may go by different names in different lands and different times – but they are the same two parties locked in eternal political struggle – there is always a party of freedom. There is always a party of authoritarianism.

Those two parties were at Runnymeade and in Philadelphia. They hover over every political discussion taking place over coffee right now. They saturate the debates in capitols from Juneau to Sacramento to Washington D.C. – wherever political conflict exists you will find them. The party of freedom and the party of authoritarianism.

Indeed. We should listen to McClintock. And he is not one to compromise or to urge a "temporary" or "acceptable" relenting on our principles for the so-called greater good. If he had been that kind of man he would never have run for governor.

We know the disaster that results from all-Democrat rule. We also know the danger of watering down or shelving our very principles.