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To: goldstategop
With the exception of Bloomberg, 2005 will be remembered as a RINO Massacre.

Hardly. You forgot the Ohio ballot measures and gay marriage in Texas.

California is a lost cause. No conservative can be elected to statewide office there, and "conservative" issues are not going to carry the day.

Democrats won in NJ and Virginia, succeeding....Democrats.

No massacre, just a status-quo election.

14 posted on 11/09/2005 2:53:36 PM PST by sinkspur (Trust, but vilify.)
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To: sinkspur
No conservative can be elected to statewide office there (California), and "conservative" issues are not going to carry the day.

Therein lies the problem with the pragmatic partisans who run the CAGOP. Their goal is victory, at all costs. They see little gain and no direct reward in the daily conflicts along the path to their destination. They just see the destination. Political victory.

Sea changes in societies aren't accomplished overnight. Profound changes occur from the cumulative effect of many small battles. As an example, had the governor of California used his veto power repeatedly to strengthen the hand of his own party in the legislature and shine a public light on the status quo in his veto message, his image would be much different. Instead he went along to get along to accomplish the greater good in the longer run and ended up just another RINO who couldn't lead a pair of canaries to the open door on their cage.

23 posted on 11/09/2005 3:14:52 PM PST by Amerigomag
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