Posted on 05/24/2010 7:14:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The tricky part is that even those pols who are for amnesty say they are against amnesty (and when pressed just deny that the amnesty they support is amnesty), so such are hollow words without outlining a real alternative.
(And yes, Palin will ultimately have to face this too, while she simply focuses on the border for now.)
California and New York are still lost causes, and Whitman is stupid for putting so much of her own money in to this. There is so little upside to become the CA governor right now. It is an invitation to be at the helm when they collapse and not much more.
I’m switching my vote to Poizner because of Meg’s position.
” Whitman, a former eBay chief executive, has burned through $68 million from her personal fortune in the run-up to California’s GOP gubernatorial primary on June 8. “
Madness!
Meg: “ I just LOVE me! “
Poizner pledges to crack down on illegal immigration if elected — ending taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal immigrants, cutting off state funding for “sanctuary cities” such as San Francisco, suspending business licenses for employers who break immigration laws, and sending in the National Guard if border security does not improve. “The federal government is not addressing this, so it’s now our responsibility to turn off the economic magnets,” he says. “It’s an economic and national-security issue.”
If California doesn’t elect this man then they deserve what happens to them.
She badly lost ground with the ads...they were too often and too lame...for a genius in the marketing biz, the ads were a real dud...plus, Poizner (someone that has a minus charisma number) held back (until two weeks ago) and just blitzed CA with ads. There was bound to be some leveling out.
What is a mere 68 million to someone who suddenly became a multi-billionaire, due to the Ebay IPO at Goldman Sachs????
Surely you jest.
I think that this well written article would be of interest to you.
Why is Whitman spending so much of her own money to be Governor of a declining state? She doesn’t need that job.
What I’m finding interesting here in NorCal is that it seems the Democratic party has taken to running Anti-Meg ads. Hmmm.... I’m not a big Meg fan, but it sounds to me that the Cali DNC has some polling that shows Meg could give Jerry Brown a run for his money in November and therefore Poizner would be the preferable candidate.
Meanwhile, for this election, I have decided that my vote and wholehearted support will go to another candidate that looks, acts, and sounds like a real leader.
GO KEN MILLER!
They are both liberal democrats.
“Sixty-percent of Republicans view immigrants ‘as a burden’”
I suspect the percentage would have been significantly highly if they weren’t asked about “immigrants”, but, as they should have been, about “illegal immigrants”. Is this willful ignorance on the part of the pollsters?
I do find it interesting that with Fiorina, Whitman, and McMahon in CT we have three women who made it big now trying to transfer some of that capital into high-level political positions. Sure, we’ve got examples of men doing exactly the same thing, but the universe of female businesswomen who make it big is so much smaller, it seems to be proportionately a bigger phenomenon with them.
Could it be societal pressure that women feel to show that their efforts and glory are for others, not just themselves? Or is it that it takes such tremendous drive for women to succeed at their level in business that they are especially driven as it is? Or could it be that having made it in one ‘man’s world’ they are out to prove that that wasn’t a fluke?
Maybe it is just coincidence. Maybe it was a pent-up supply of such women ready to enter the arena once Hillary made it seem more viable and fashionable. I just don’t know.
“Surely you jest.”
Yes I do. And stop calling me Shirley.
I’m torn. I won’t vote for Whitman, but Poizner seems to talk out of both sides of his face.
“Meg could give Jerry Brown a run for his money in November and therefore Poizner would be the preferable candidate.”
I don’t think anyone really takes Moonbeam seriously...but they should...he’s almost anti-incumbent now...which is pretty funny. Poizner has the better stuff, I think, but is so charisma free, he might get eaten alive in public. Just my NSHO...I think you are right, that they see Poizner as more vulnerable to a Moonbeam debate and not holding up well in public appearances.
THAT is a VERY good question. Why spend more than $70 million of her own to contend for what must be one of the most frustrating executive positions in the country?
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