[Carry_Okie]

Anything to rid themselves of conservatives. Those pesky "small government," "no eminent domain" types really get in the way of doing deals.

[calcowgirl]

It is not surprising that they love Poizner so much. He's a closet Dem, hitched to the Venture Capitalists (Doerr, Khosla, et al. who use California taxpayers as their own source of wealth and folly.) In 2004, the guy was endorsed by Richard Clarke (his ex boss) and refused to say whether he was supporting Kerry or Bush. Dufus and Arnold may be pleased while others see he's nothing more than a democrat who certainly doesn't believe in the Republican platform..

www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=CA&last=poizner

Poizner, Stephen     Gore, Al (D)                        Gore 2000 Inc                  $1,000.00   02/22/00
Poizner, Stephen L   Democratic National Committee (D)                                 $10,000.00   10/02/00
Poizner, Steve       Kerry, John F (D)                   Kerry Committee                $1,000.00   02/15/01
Poizner, Steve       Kerry, John F (D)                   Kerry Committee                $1,000.00   02/15/01
Poizner, Steve Mr.   Bush, George W (R)                  Bush-Cheney '04 (Primary) Inc  $2,000.00   06/30/03
Poizner, Steve       Kobach, Kris (R)                    Kobach For Congress            $2,000.00   07/31/03
Poizner, Steve Mr.   The Wish List                                                      $1,000.00   04/08/04
Poizner, Steve       California Republican Party/Victory 2006 (R)                       $9,952.00   06/07/05
Poizner, Steve       Santa Clara County Republican Party(Fed) (R)                       $1,000.00   02/03/06

[calcowgirl]

Can anybody describe what the Platform of this "Purple Party" would actually say?

Other than "We stand for nothing", "No principle is worth fighting for", "We will surrender, if the price is right", and a few others of similar vein, I cannot fathom what a Purple Party might champion as their cause.

[Lancey Howard]

Buh-bye, California.

[goldstategop]

The RINOs dream of being the Democrats' junior partner content with gleaning scrapings off the table. That's what Dov Sundheim means by a Purple State. The RINOs run the party shutting out the conservatives. Cause we're "too right wing" for California.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[gc4nra]

"Doof" is an idiot!

[ThomasThomas]

There will a lot of red chunks here as long as I'm and few other FReeper are here.

[A CA Guy]

We need to grab back 5% of the vote to make it red again.

The only reason it is tinted blue at all is all the excessive government/union employment.

[nickcarraway]

Just in case anyone is curious, I worked on the GOP campaign in the area Steve Poizner was running to represent. He sent mailers to independent and Democrat bashing Republicans.