It's pretty obvious. :(
I was saying that in the primaries as well. There was a woman who was a treasurer of the United States under Bush I think that made a better candidate by far. (If memory serves) The support was too thin in the primaries, but she had the only chance IMO!
Rosario Marin. I heard her debate the non-Jones candidates on the radio, (I can't remember if Jones was there or not.... indicative of his candidacy?), and she was awful in both presentation and content. I'm sure she or anyone would be better than Boxer, but I was left very worried whether she could possibly campaign against Boxer.
The other GOP lady candidate (former Clinton-Democrat) sounded much better as a campaigner and fundraiser than Marin, but she may have been too liberal for Republican voters.
Howard Kaloogian was probably not well known north of Orange or San Diego Counties, he would have had money trouble, and he might have been branded (by Boxer) as too conservative for CA, although he and the liberal woman were the only candidates who really spoke against illegal immigration and for immigration law enforcement.
Jones was arrogant in the primaries by declining all debates, so the entire primary became as boring and below the radar as his campaign-style. He wasn't a good candidate, and everyone knew it. Too bad he won, but there weren't really any practical choices, unfortunately.
Well facts are that Jones is a nothing and despite Rosario Marin having credentials and a Mexican surname, you felt she couldn't debate and was a failure as well.
So what this tells me is that the problem in California is that if a conservative is charismatic, they find their fortune outside of politics and only the bland are available for the running. This means we lose.
Unless we get all candidates as we did Arnold, we are in big trouble. Why can't we find people with personal appeal?
The Republican party needs to start busting it's butt from the bottom up and when the bottom does come up, those "WHO CAN'T" at the top need to "STEP ASIDE" for the good of the party, state and people.