Republican gubernatorial candidates Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman have feuded over which one is a real conservative, but check the expiration date on that label.Posted on 05/06/2010 8:05:04 AM PDT by SmithL
Republican gubernatorial candidates Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman have feuded over which one is a real conservative, but check the expiration date on that label.
Whoever emerges from the June 8 primary must pivot away from the conservative tag in the months that follow. Winning the general election will require substantial support from independent voters in California, with GOP voter registration below 31 percent.
Poizner has a tougher challenge in appealing to centrists after spending the primary race trying to establish conservative credentials on issues from immigration to the environment.
Whitman had more freedom to take moderate positions with a primary lead once as large as 50 percentage points. At one point, she turned her attention toward Democrat Jerry Brown, who faces no serious opposition in his primary.
But with polls now tightening, she has to reiterate her fiscal conservative positions and continue vying for votes on the right.
"It's certainly going to be a line of attack for Jerry Brown to point out that both Poizner and Whitman have taken positions that are more conservative," said Bruce Cain, a UC Berkeley political science professor and director of the University of California Washington Center.
Poizner has made illegal immigration a key issue. He has vowed to cut off state services for illegal immigrants within federal guidelines. He has embraced a new Arizona law giving local authorities greater authority to check immigration status. Whitman said Sunday she would oppose that idea in California.
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just keep peddling your poop, Sac Bee. keep it up.
Why? So they can lose?
Taxifornia is near dead because it is a liberal dung heap. Conservatism is the only hope for what is left of it....
Yeah, right........just like Ronald Reagan did?..............
Having these two fight over who is more or the real conservative is a good thing! Maybe there is a ray of hope for this state.
CA is not the same state it was back then...FWIW...
We need to just break off LA and SF into the ocean...or purge 70% of their populations...only then can conservatism really take CA back.
1960 was a different California than 2010. Hopefully a true conservative can make it but I don’t give much odds that California would do such an honorable thing.
Whitman, the ‘Romney Conservative’. ( Replaces Version 2.0, Compassionate Conservative.)
“Republican gubernatorial candidates Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman have feuded over which one is a real conservative”
‘Neither one is conservative’ is the answer to that question. But Poizner at least has the backing of Tom McClintock. Meg Whitman is just Arnold in drag.
great idea to take the advice of your enemies.
GOP registration beloew 31%.
Another reason why I left California after 40 years & will NOT go back. They can sink into their own mire.
You also meed to remove the illegals who are sucking the entire system dry.
Conservatism, when presented cogently, lucidly, logically and simply will always prevail. That means bypass the MSM filters...............
If they “pivot” away from conservatism, it means it was and is a pose. I’m tired of posers, and I won’t vote for another one.
We don’t need no stinking Vichy Republicans.
If Poizner and Whitman are conservative, then I’m the king of England.
The leftists of newspapers must really be worried.
In DC they are trying to isolate the politicians from the people by being dismissive of the Tea Party Movement. Make no mistake in DC the politicans and staffers refer to the tea party people as “t-————rs” with the full vulcarity of the term. (as in they will defy the unwashed masses who can [insert cartman vularities here])
Good point!
It’s the unions, stupid. (not you)
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