"why do Conservates ferverishly believe that a Conservative could ever win in California?"
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They don't. Pretend-conservatives want to run ultra conservatives, so the Dems will keep winning undisturbed. It's a divide and conquer strategy -- sucker some conservatives into not supporting a moderate Republican, who actually has a chance of winning, to strengthen the Demoicrats. The defeat of the reform propositions has been a great victory for the Dems. Some here who claim to be conservatives, such as calcowgirl were voting exactly the same way as the Democrats. They were never able to explain how voting with the Democrats on important issues is "the conservative thing to do".
These are the same people who supported McClintock, to split the Republicans and give the Dems a better chance at winning. How do I know this, because now, when McClintock strongly supported and campaigned for the reform propositions, they turned against him.
How is it conservative to push the Dem agenda and help more Dems be elected is beyond me.
Still playing the same old broken record I see, FO. "It's all conservatives at FR's fault for the Gub's defeats."
Divide and conquer, sounds like the CA GOP's MO the last few elections, where fat cats could care less who wins the big seats, the slop all rolls downhill to them anyway from those in power, an R or D by their name seems to matter not.
Who do you consider to be an "ultra conservative". Can you please cite some examples from past elections?
They were never able to explain how voting with the Democrats on important issues is "the conservative thing to do".
Really? It is true I opposed Prop 76, vehemently. It authorized more debt and more borrowing instead of the CUT CUT CUT platform on which the governor won his election. I offered all of the explanation necessary HERE.
How is it conservative to push the Dem agenda and help more Dems be elected is beyond me.
Yet you have supported more socialized spending through Prop 57/58, stand by in silence when a governor appoints leftist judges and leftist cabinet members, promotes taxpayer funded embryonic stemcell research, promotes an environmental platform written by leftist enviro-wacko RFK, jr, signs pro-GLBT legislation (that you describe as "mere crumbs"), signs more gun-grabbing laws, puts 1/5 of the state land under an unaccountable, unelected quasi-governmental body .... etc. Now who exactly is supporting the leftist/dem agenda?
Tom was in first. The people who split the Republicans were the Arnold supporters. If they had stood behind Tom instead of pushing an alternate candidate, Tom would have won. Don't blame us for your mistakes.