Posted on 05/14/2010 4:43:29 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
On the Propositions:
Prop. 13. Seismic Retrofits. YES: Earthquake proofing your house shouldn’t trigger a tax increase until you’re ready to sell. Any questions?
Prop. 14. Distorted Primary. NO: This was the result of the corrupt deal for the tax increase engineered by Abel Maldonado that included this measure to by-pass party primaries in a manner Maldonado believed would enhance his future election prospects. Instead of voters of each party putting their best candidate forward, this jerry-rigged system is designed to disguise the difference between the parties and force those pesky third parties off the general election ballot entirely.
Prop. 15. Taxpayer Funded Elections. NO: The real purpose of this measure is to allow the legislature to tap taxpayers to finance political campaigns. Jefferson said it best: “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
Prop. 16. Utility Elections. YES: Cash-guzzling city governments have been taking over the territory of utilities through eminent domain and PG&E wants to put it to a vote. This measure gives you the choice upon whose mercy your future electricity bills will depend: the monopoly of city hall or the monopoly of your utility. Here’s a better idea: restore the freedom of individual consumers to choose among competing providers who actually have to earn their business. Alas, that part was left out by the suits at PG&E.
Prop. 17. Insurance Rates. YES: A simple question: should drivers be able to take their “continuous coverage” discount with them when they change insurance companies? A simpler question: why are our laws such a micro managing mess that we have to vote on something as self-evident as this in the first place?
On the statewide races:
For Governor, Steve Poizner: Steve had the courage to support Arizona’s decision to enforce our immigration laws when Meg Whitman cut and ran. He opposes the bank bailouts, rampant borrowing and environmental extremism that Meg Whitman embraces. And unlike Whitman, Steve Poizner was never “a huge fan” of radical leftist Van Jones. This time, let’s have a governor from the Republican wing of the Republican Party.
For Lt. Governor, Sam Aanestad: Sam was my seatmate for many years in both the Assembly and the Senate. He never wavered from his devotion to Republican principles of limited government. Abel Maldonado broke his signed taxpayer pledge and bears responsibility not only for the biggest tax increase in California’s history, but also the budgets that ran California off the fiscal cliff. No single race on the ballot more clearly defines the difference between the Party of Reagan and the Party of Schwarzenegger.
For Attorney General, John Eastman: I worked with John Eastman at the Claremont Institute – a public policy think tank devoted to restoring American founding principles to the public policy debate. John is a nationally renowned Constitutional advocate and scholar whose leadership is desperately needed in the Attorney General’s office. Imagine having an Attorney General who not only respects the Constitution but who understands and reveres it.
For Insurance Commissioner, Anybody But Villines. Mike Villines was another of the sell-out Republican votes on the massive tax increase that crushed what was left of our state’s economy last year, after signing a no-new-taxes pledge. Liars don’t belong in government.
For U.S. Senate, Chuck DeVore: Chuck is a conservative’s conservative who has always stood on principle, even when it has meant standing virtually alone. I’ve never heard him give a speech without thinking “I wish I’d said that.” I rank him up there with Sam Aanestad as one of the finest people I’ve had the opportunity to serve with in the legislature. He would become an instant leader in the United States Senate.
I like Ken Miller. I’m definitely considering him.
There is no way I’m voting for scumbag Abel Maldonado, so I need a good alternative.
“But this meme(or theme) of calling Sarah a RINO because she endorsed McCain and Fiorina (sp?) and totally ignoring the other endorsements and her thoroughly conservative policy positions, are the actions of cowards and dishonest posters.”
Over time, Gov. Palin will and should rightly be judged primarily by her record. Her endorsements are part of that record and she’s probably running 80% (8 out of 10). I really think she could have stayed out of both AZ and CA races, but she was probably asked to come in, and she decided to do so.
Poizner has shown a few RINO tendencies but Whitman is far, far, worse. There really is no perfect choice, but clearly Poizner is “the lesser of two weevils”. His support of the Arizona law goes far in atoning for his past mistakes.
And I can’t remember the last time McClintock was wrong....
Whitman will probably get elected. She is just another clone of the Wilson machine. They will continue to rape the california taxpayer for profit, except for one thing, like Ahnold said, "the fruit is all gone" , or in other words "the parasites killed the host"
“I find it rather disquieting — although darkly humorous, considering the state our nation and the world is in at this latter day — that some Conservatives find great sport in crucifying their fellows because they don’t agree with them on every single issue — or endorsement.”
RIGHT!
We lost 2006 and 2008 due the toxic mix of RINO-ism and disgruntled conservatives - a conservative ‘crackup’.
Now Obama came along and I would HOPE people see the seriousness of needing to stop Obama’s socialism.
We need a change in 2010 or America is lost. Life’s too short to quibble over Palin right now.
I criticized Palin for resigning. (I see the upside of it now but still think she would have been better served to finish the job in Alaska and run for reelection embarrassing the rats ala Jeb Bush in 2002)
Anyway since I didn’t immediately see how “wise” a decision it was (all I said was that I didn’t like it) 2 or 3 knuckleheads called me a “Mittbot” and wouldn’t back down despite proof to the contrary.
I say I’m leaning against voting for Mark Kirk and a couple geniuses called me a “purist”. (I’m not conformable with a less than 55/60 % or so “pure” Conservative, I can drink mud but not dirt)
I found both allegations highly curious. Some people.
To address this McClintock endorsement. If I lived in CA I’d also cast a vote for the one of the no-name no-money conservatives in the primary, I agree that the 2 frontrunners are not acceptable I couldn’t vote for either coming off of Ahnold. But 1 of them will sadly win the primary. Whitman is a least a little bity bit worse, so I can’t blame McClintock for endorsing Poinzer (who’s trying to pull a Romney “I’m conservative now (or always have been it was the wife’s idea to give to Gore”).
Maybe his "court-mandated" tax hike and his spending kick came after the ball. Or no one had taken notice before he ran for President.
I'll grant you he's a bit better than Mitt and McLame. Likely he would have been a reliable Senator. But as a Chief Exec I have to call fail. A bit hyperbolic to call him a 'socialist' I've done it myself I'm sure. But big government 'conservative', check.
Not one person complained at the time.
Had a truly awful sitting RINO governor been selected to headline a FR event at the time (Christie Todd Whitman, Tom Ridge. Bob Taft, George Ryan, etc.), I have no doubt freepers would have raised hell about it and complained loudly to the owner. Possibly boycotted the event. (I know I would if some socialist scumbag like George Ryan was the "attraction" at a FR event)
Of course Huck was a flawed Presidential candidate (my ideal choice was Duncan Hunter, but he was polling 1% and I believe wasn't even on the ballot by the time Illinois voted). But as you said, the alternatives at the time were Giuliani, McCain, and Romney. I would rank Huckabee as the most conservative of those four.
I don't question the fact Huck sucked on a handful of important issues. Huck was mostly conservative, but had some glaring problems in his record (like John Thune, except a bunch of freepers drool over Thune when he comes on TV and would NEVER question his "true conservative" beliefs, let alone call him a "socialist")
I question those who ranted and raved that Huck was an evil socialist Clintonite and insisted the "only" conservative position he had was pro-life (they refused to explain to me how Huck was "liberal" or had any kind of "socialist record" on guns, gay rights, isreal, the WOT, ANWR drilling, etc. etc.).
The thing Titan seems to have missed out on is there are plenty of "mostly conservative" candidates who freepers have demanded be purged from government and have been subject to far worse attacks than Sarah Palin ever has. Apparently he never noticed until he saw people trashing his gal.
Because in part most women won’t vote for Palin, I see her getting hardly more than six states.
http://www.flashreport.org/featured-columns-library0b.php?faID=2010051111234322
Most men won’t vote for Palin either if she’s the top of the ticket.
I like Tom McClintock on every subject except for one. He supports Indian casinos and their expansion in CA. He’s dead wrong on this, casinos need to be stopped.
But other than that, Tom’s my man. It’s hard to believe he’s a California Republican because he’s a genuine conservative. He’s like a Ronald Reagan for our day (again, minus his error on the casino issue)
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