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I was pretty straight forward on what you do here and in any other post on the topic I've made.

#1 All attempts of change should be attempted regarding the candidate in the Republican primary. After that, you vote Republican, whether it is a pathetic McClintock or Arnold.

#2 You don't get stupid in self righteousness making protest votes or act like a child and abstain from voting in the regular elections because if you do, you are getting Democrats elected. If anyone suggests such behavior on FR, IMO that would be a troll from the Democrat party or a Third Party social liberal.

#3 Tough as heck, but the main change has to be made to the voters, for they dictate the candidates in office and the Legislature. The action is in educating current voters and at the grass roots growing the conservative base.

#4 You can work to get Propositions on the ballot and maybe even come out to vote for them.

#5 Progress to a conservative state may be slow, take time, but in time can happen from the time real effort is made for change.
We MUST think long term and not short term in these elections.
Wanting short term gratification is very child like, and totally defeats the main purpose of voting when you enable Democrats to win through direct or indirect behavior.

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IMO, the tone of your posts are insulting to a whole lot of folks on a conservative forum trying to advance conservatism. Nobody is looking for big leaps, but they also don't have blinders on buying the troll argument that the party is somehow moving in the right direction (tiny steps or otherwise). The record speaks for itself--look at the list again. The name calling and constant slurs to conservative candidates and freepers shows the troll's true colors.

I strongly suggest you read these two interviews from someone with superb credentials in political analysis. The conclusions are contrary to the accusations and fingerpointing you have posted here over and over since November. In fact, he even predicted that the Arnold camp would try to blame it on conservatives, despite all of the flaws in the administrations strategy and its campaign.

I've included only a couple punchlines.

http://www.flashreport.org/special-reports0b.php?faID=2005110202424596

If they lose all four, we should have a contest on how they'll explain their polling. Maybe it will be the old standby -- opinion shifted at the end, the last few days, and momentum was suddenly against them. More likely, they'll blame Republican voters for not coming out, as if this would be some total surprise. But major donors like to believe these arcane polling explanations, because it's easier to do so than admit they've been had. I mean, when is the last time a rich guy at the Lincoln Club admitted he was gullible and taken in by a poll that cooked the numbers?

http://www.flashreport.org/special-reports0b.php?faID=2006021010190934

It’s just that the governor has become the Republican Gray Davis – more spending, more government, more deficits, political opportunism, and their shared obsession with raising money, and unnecessary wheeling and dealing that doesn’t pass the smell test. Just sloppy, mess stuff with campaign loans, muscle magazine deals, campaign money on the side to state employees and so forth. It’s all gratuitous. Overall, this governor is a political masochist whose wounds are largely self-inflicted.