[Wolfstar]

To me, ignorance is failing to acknowledge one's mistakes and repeating them over and over again. This is what those who like to self-identify as "real" conservatives do. In fact, it's worse than failing to acknowledge mistakes, it's failing to even recognize them as one's own. So easy to blame some vague conspiracy by "rinos," Rove, Wilson, whoever, rather than seeing the flaws one's own actions and attitudes.

Until self-professed real conservatives learn to operate in the real world, where winning means forsaking the notion that only those who agree in total lock-step are welcome, the Left wil never again be defeated in California.

[calcowgirl]

True—Conservatives worked to get the petition signatures.

But from there, they did ZILCH to get the Austrian dictator elected. Credit for that can be given to the whining, sniveling teary-eyed Issa, the I-love-liberals David Dreier, the We-Love-Arnold-the-Celebrity Duf Sundheim, and all of the other so-called “pragmatic” Republicans who day-in and day-out did everything in their power to criticize Conservatives and McClintock while ignoring the obvious liberal leanings of the Austrian.

Had this not happened during the Recall election, I believe it would have happened in the 2006 primary—folks like you, David Dreier, Sean Hannity, etc. promoting the Austrian as “a conservative” while ignoring things like his outrageous LEFTIST environmental platform.

As I said earlier, the Recall was a disaster because of the CA GOP leadership’s efforts (aided and abetted by Rove and the RNC—thanks for nuttin’ Bob White and George Gorton!) to foist a liberal on the Republican party (and their ever-increasing efforts to defeat all things conservative).