Posted on 02/09/2007 9:38:39 AM PST by areafiftyone
} When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speak at the California Republican Convention this weekend, some party leaders from Solano County will be there and listening carefully.
Approximately 1,300 delegates from across the state are expected to fill the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Sacramento beginning today through Sunday. Among them will be Mike Gomez, the chair of the Solano County Republican Party Central Committee, and Lynda Rose McMahan, chair of Solano Republican Women's Federated.
A busy itinerary awaits the group in the state capital, including the selection of new party leadership. Gomez said one candidate, Ron Nehring, is running unopposed for chair, while the vice-chairmanship is hotly contested.
"I think it's going to be a good convention," Gomez said. "To me, it is always interesting and exciting when we elect new officers."
Situated between major election cycles, this convention is an opportunity for the party to strategize and organize. Local party leaders said it is chance for California Republicans to regroup after a shift of power in the November 2006 election, as well as prepare for the upcoming battle in 2008.
McMahan said, "I'm hoping a sense of unity comes out of it; that we find out what we did wrong in the last election and go about changing it."
While she is unable to attend, Cathy Ritch, the second vice chair of the Solano Republican Central Committee, said "I think it is going to be an important meeting."
"It's a chance for us to get together and look over what happened in the last election," she said. "We're really at a crossroads."
Giuliani, dubbed "America's mayor" after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, has made headlines recently with his burgeoning presidential aspirations.
"I'd like to hear what his philosophy is and how he would deal with what's going on in Iraq differently than what President Bush is doing," McMahan said.
Republicans will have to produce a turnaround in Iraq, McMahan said, to be successful in 2008.
Gomez said he is also looking forward to the lunch with Giuliani on Saturday. He wants to hear the celebrated mayor's views on national security and the kinds of programs and policies he would implement as president.
"I'm anxious to hear him speak," Gomez said. "At this point in time, he's the one who holds the most interest for me."
Ritch said about Giuliani, "He'd be my favorite candidate if you asked me right now."
As for Schwarzenegger, McMahan said she likes that he is bold and understands the necessity of compromise in politics. However, she and Gomez have concerns about his health-care proposal.
"I do have some questions," McMahan said. While she understands what Schwarzenegger is trying to accomplish, she said, "I'm just not sure that his proposal is the best way to go about it."
Other business awaits the convention's delegates, including a vote on resolutions opposing tax increases and another titled "Voter ID for Honest Elections, which supports a measure requiring would-be voters to provide a valid photo ID.
McMahan said she had not had a chance to peruse the resolutions, but Republicans generally oppose tax increases. Concerning the other issue, she said, "I think everyone should have to show ID when they go to vote."
Additional information about the convention is available on the California Republican Party's Web site, www.cagop.org/.
Mona Charen on Rudy:
There is no question that Giuliani's position on abortion and gun control will offend many Republicans. But let's be clear, he is no liberal. His conservatism has been tempered in New York City — so it is steely indeed.
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---"If you have problems, why don't you ping the forum owner or the mods?"--
Typical Rudophile. You gonna sue, too?
So expecting a basic modicum of respect for the positions of FR is too much to ask?
Yeah, you Rudophiles are as classy as Rudy all right.
Pat Robertson does not represent nor does he speak for Evangelicals.
The man that started the frivolous lawsuit against the firearm manufacturers. That same man then had the audacity during this time to publicly ignore current immigration enforcement laws and goes to court to defend his position.
This man is leadership material and should be President. After all the President has no control over social issues.
Go Duncan Hunter!
This is a PRO-RUDY post. She's shoving nothing down your throat! If you don't like it you don't have to read it. Peach is posting pro-Rudy posts on this post and there is nothing wrong with that.
You obviously don't know anything about Cultural Marxism, the brainchild of COMMUNIST Antonio Gramsci in the 1920s, brought to the United States by the Frankfurt School: Marcuse, Fromm, Maslow, and Adorno. The goal was to transform Western Civilization to make it ready for communism. The key was to destroy the nuclear family so that children could be raised by the state.
Giuliani is NOT a Marxist.
He supports the program. He is either witless or complicit. Take your pick.
Blah Blah Blah! Same stuff different day.
You mean we're all supposed to march in lockstep for the candidates the forum owner likes? Is that what you're proposing, because if that's the case, I will leave this forum.
And if you have such a huge problem with those of us who like Rudy, truly, I mean this -- why don't you ping Jim Robinson? Other men have done it and gotten laughed at, but please, why don't you try and get his attention to this urgent matter and we'll see if he's interested in kicking all the Rudy supporters off the forum.
You don't beat the enemy by adopting her programme.
What the hell do you call No Child Left Behind?
What do you call McCain FEINGOLD?
What do you call his idiotic pandering to the environmental left?
What do you call his PC rules of engagement in Iraq?
Yeah, right.
---"...we'll see if he's interested in kicking all the Rudy supporters off the forum...."---
He shouldn't have to; he's made his opposition to Rudy as clear as it could be made. Choosing whether or not to respect that basic view is up to you.
You're like the really annoying salesman who refuses to leave just because the owner of the house is too classy to throw you out - as if that suddenly justifies what you do.
Nominated for ignorant post of the day. Here are the differences:
Clinton will raise taxes, involve our military in world courts, redistribute the income of oil companies (I'm assuming you heard she said she wants to take the oil profits), and move this country further and further down the road to socialism. She doesn't support the war, our military or even our law enforcement men and women.
She will do nothing to stop abortion or gay marriage and she's a huge gun grabber.
Rudy didn't do anything about abortion while mayor, didn't push it and didn't stop it.
A host of conservative reporters and think tanks think he's conservative. Not just republican, but conservative.
So spare us your mantra that Rudy's philosophies are the same as Hillary's.
Where to?
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Try and make your point without whining and resorting to ridiculous arguments and analogies. Oh, that's right. You can't.
Gun grabbing.
Pandering to illegals.
Support for the leftist attack on the nuclear family, aka Cultural Marxism.
LOL.
I like Hunter but I looked at some polls last weekend and this was his percentage: --.
But,but Rudy is my hero. Everyone tells me he can walk on water. Is what I posted wrong? Oh my.
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