McClintock as an example will get 22% of the state wide vote in a two way race with a Democrat and will get a Bustamante elected.
Until we get the conservatives out to vote in mass, nothing will change.
Until the Republican party in our state works on grass roots level to convert people to Republican/conservative, nothing is going to change either until a total financial disaster makes it happen.
As was pointed out earlier in this thread, absolutely ZERO statistics have been published by the Secretary of State to support that contention. The election results would indicate that it is blatantly false. The MOST conservative measures (Prop 73 and 75) did the best. That could not happen if the Conservatives did not show up.
BTW, can you please tell me what, in your opinion, a "conservative third party" is? What issues put them in that category? Spending? Property Rights? Gun Control? Anti-Gay Marriage? Abortion? Please provide some examples.
We do not have an ***electable*** conservative that could make headway in this state toward conservatism. Scary thing is Arnold is the only electable guy there is.
The "only electable guy" there is? You have to be kidding! Not to mention that Arnold isn't conservative at all and is a Republican based only on the letter he chose to put next to his name. He has even abandoned the "moderate" Republican platform on which he ran.
McClintock as an example will get 22% of the state wide vote in a two way race with a Democrat and will get a Bustamante elected.
Can you please provide support for this contention? It is negated by polls during the recall that clearly said McClintock would have beat a Dem in a 2 way race. He also had the highest approval rating of any candidate, from either party.
Until the Republican party in our state works on grass roots level to convert people to Republican/conservative, nothing is going to change either
If the Republican party leadership keeps cramming their socialist cr@p on the voters, they won't have a grass roots left!
Arnold should have gotten the message out, should have tried to educate the voters instead of doing sound bites such as "girly men", which were amusing but accomplished little.
He should have met with Bush and endorsed him, he should have taken an active part in the election when Babs was re-elected without a struggle and her opponent went down with very little notice. Arnold failed on that account and many others. I will never vote for him, but will not vote for dems either. I would hope he doesn't run again but he will.
We won't win any dems over to our side by whimping out and embracing dem politics.