Posted on 09/28/2009 7:34:20 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Elaine McKearn is the kind of socially conservative Republican who used to dominate California Republican Party conventions such as the one that concluded Sunday.
The Thousand Oaks resident opposes abortion rights and gay marriage and sees illegal immigration as one of California's main problems. In 2002, the now-66-year-old was so inspired by GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bill Simon that she jumped aboard as a campaign volunteer.
At this convention, however, McKearn said she felt lost. All three of the party's gubernatorial candidates are pro-abortion rights social moderates who make only passing references to immigration, gay marriage, religion and other red-meat conservative social issues.
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This story illustrates why our California affiliate, the American Independent Party, is growing fast.
I think small govt republicans can write off California as lost to us forever.
I’ll run. I’ve got no money. But I’ll run.
“I think small govt republicans can write off California as lost to us forever.”
Barring a future north-south partition of the state, I’d have to agree.
I won't vote for anyone who will move this country to the Left. I'll vote for conservative Republicans if they are available, and I'll go third party if I have to.
And I will feel no sense of guilt if the Democrats win. The GOP knows what it needs to do to win and it refuses to do it.
California is our most populous and most economically important State. It is also the most important state electorally.
California is inhabited still by millions of decent, patriotic Americans who deserve true representation. Like all the other states in the Union, there are still more citizens who self-identify as conservative than there are those who call themselves liberal.
Unfortunately, the Republican Party has failed to represent them. If they had, conservatives and conservative principles would be in control instead of hard left radicals.
Good. We’re looking for a thousand true conservative candidates in CA alone. Email me and I’ll direct you to the folks you need to talk to: candidates@aipnews.com.
That’s pretty much where me and all those I associate with are at as well.
Third parties don’t work. All you guys ever do is run people for president. How about runnign serious candidates at the local level and start at the bottom like everyone else? Then maybe you’ll have a chance of electing a dogcatcher every now and then.
Quit whinning. Go field a candidate and win the primary and general election.
Whining is for democrats and losers.
As we devolve into third world politics through continued massive immigration invasion and race crap of all kinds this will get way worse and not just in CA.
We’re lining up candidates at all levels. And we’re endorsing them based on principle, not something so meaningless as party labels.
How is pointing out that the GOP is running nothing but hardcore Leftists for Governor of California “whining”?
Actually I think it is both refreshing and wise that the GOP does not have a clear leader at the moment.
Wise because a leader would make the left go into overdrive to find something damaging against the person unless it is someone like Palin that has been so thoroughly trashed already that any further trashing would seem way over the top as well as just plain mean, nasty and cruel to the max.
You’re right. They’re making it more and more difficult to save the country. Which only illustrates the fact that we better get our heinies in gear before it is too late.
The ONLY way out is to have an organization, independent of the official Republican party machine, which will locate good conservative candidates willing to run in the Republican primary, and finance their primary campaigns.
Unless CA goes bankrupt there won’t be any change. Maybe it will with either a Pub or Rat as Gov. None of the GOP candidates think they can get elected on a conservative platform and it is impossible to be a social liberal and a fiscal liberal.
I am debating whether to register as a Rat to try and help get the most radical idiot possible as Gov. The sooner the state goes down, the better chance we have of fixing it.
The end of the California Republican party was ensured when Bush and Rove pulled the rug out from under Bill Simon.
Even without their support, and with hardly any funding from the stooge whom Rove installed as head of the state party, Simon only lost to Gray Davis by 3%.
I know a lot of Freepers badmouthed Simon. But he was a real conservative, an honest man, and an experienced executive. He had the entire media against him, no campaign funds to speak of, and constant sniping from his own party to contend with. But he almost won anyway, and would have made a really great governor. Well, that chance is gone.
Arnold was the end. He was imposed by Bush and Rove, once again. The party will never recover from his feckless incompetence. He has managed to screw up the budget even worse than Gray Davis managed to do, all the while plugging for abortion rights and the rest of the left-wing agenda.
Hi PapaBear - In elections where the Republicans and Democrats alike nominate socialist candidates, the presence of a conservative on the ballot is a good thing. The DemoGOPs will split the liberal vote. A strong campaign for a conservative choice in such cases can win elections in every state. If the GOP, or even Democrats, nominate a candidate who supports America’s Principles, by all means, support him or her. But if not, it’s a good idea to have ballot access for a better choice. In California, AIP has the ballot line. Other states need conservatives help now in getting the same structure in place. I’m working with folks in Maryland to do that, and I urge all freepers of good will to do the same in your state.
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