Posted on 06/08/2010 9:56:18 PM PDT by SmithL
Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, the conservative Orange County Republican who began running for US Senate in November 2008, just conceded the race. Here's the prepared text of the concession speech of the man we liked to call Chuck D from the OC:
My friends,
I just completed my telephone call to Carly Fiorina, to congratulate her on her victory this evening. She is our party's nominee. I endorse her. I will support her. I will vote for her. And I call upon all of you to do the same in November.
We traveled a long road to get here. When I started this campaign many months ago, I had the support of my wife, my daughters, and my dog.
And I want to say: Diane, you've put up with me for 22 years -- through moves, deployments, children and campaigns. You are the best wife and companion I can imagine. I love you.
We started this campaign small. Today, I am sincerely humbled to have received the support of hundreds of thousands of Californians from all walks of life.
But let me remind all of you -- this campaign was never about me. It was about conservative principles. It was about our Constitution. I believe we did our honorable part in reminding California why it needs both.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Real smart aint ya? Like they said, she has gone through cancer treatment.
If I were you...
Wrong! Reagan could still win California today. The problem is that conservatives suck at communicating the message as effectively as Reagan and until this is cleared up, we’re going to have to continue dealing with RINOs. It’s a fact of life.
That is the way to do it.
To bad others here can’t act like you guys.
“She is our party’s nominee. I endorse her. I will support her. I will vote for her. And I call upon all of you to do the same in November.”
Classy.
Now, when is Feinstein due for re-election? A defeat here does not mean he is out of the running. The more conservatives in congress the merrier.
"We suck at communicating the message" is what political parties say when their message is what the voters reject.
In the case of California, a sufficiently large block of voters is on the government teat that the message of cutting government will lose, and the better the Republican candidate's skill at articulating that message, the greater the margin of defeat.
2012
What kind of a person can not tell that dismembering a baby in their mother’s womb and then discarding their remains is murder? That is why a candidate’s position on life is an acid test. Just look at Barbara Boxer.
It is a fact Reagan would lose California today. 50 years of immigration from socialist states like New York, Massashussets, New Jersey, Michigan as well as 20 years of colonization by hispanic immigrants, has changed California from right of center to left of center, by a good amount.
When Reagan was governor, we did not have 4 registered Democrat voters for every 3 registered Republican voters. That is a huge electoral advantage for the Democrats in a state as populous as ours. Huge.
My fear is that too many principled Conservatives will vote their heart and not their brain — will sit out the election and not vote for Fiorina and Whitman, or will write in candidats, letting Boxer remain doing Obama’s bidding, and giving Gerry Brown another chance to ruin California.
This terrifies me but is expected. I hope they are few in number. I hope most of them understand what is at stake leaving Obama with Democratic party majorities in both the House and the Senate.
I fear they don’t care and will vote their high minded principles and hand Obama these majorities he needs to continue the rape of our nation and constitution.
This terrifies me.
Let’s recap.
You agreed with someone who said that Fiorina is going to lead us down the proverbial toilet.
I pointed out that Fiorina’s taking Boxer’s seat is a necessary evil in order for the US Senate to convert back from a nearly veto-proof Democrat majority to a Republican majority.
My point in asking you those questions was rhetorical. If you want to overturn Obamacare, prevent cap and tax, and amnesty for illegals, you are not going to achieve those ends by guaranteeing Barbara Boxer remains in the Senate.
I have to apologize for my pessimism, but there is no convincing me at this time that we can defeat socialism, but only to slow down it’s inevitable grasp.
I am jealous of people like you who think we can restore our lost freedoms and turn back the tide of socialism. I really wish I could delude myself into believing that. I would be a much happier person.
I am not saying it is impossible on paper. I am looking at 2 things.
First, HISTORY.
I can’t see one nation in history, not a single nation, that went partially down the road to socialism and then stopped and did a U-turn back to limited government and a restoration of lost rights. Not a single example. Every time a nation has escaped from socialism or communism, it has had to go full circle to embracing them, living under the tyranny of it, and then finding the moral strength to fight it and cast it off. Nowhere in history is there an example of a nation sliding partially into socialism as we have, and then hitting the brakes and jumping back away from it. So if we are able to do this, it would be unique in history.
Second — Voters.
If we are to reject socialism and swing the pendulum back away from the left, it would take a morally strong group of voters who deny themselves entitlements, hand outs, giveaways, and benefits in a quest toward more personal responsibility.
I DO NOT SEE a US voting population so willing. The young voters are completely brainwashed to save mother earth and redistribute wealth for social justice. The elderly voters are not going to vote themselves decreases in Social Security and Medicare to balance the budget. The freeloaders getting welfare and food stamps and housing subsidies and energy subsidies and school lunch programs and free midnight basketball, on and on ad nauseum, are not going to vote against the hand that feeds them.
So you have a very steep uphill climb to demonstrate to me the mechanism by which we will retake our nation from the clutches of socialism.
If it happens, it will be becasue Obama has over-reached so brazenly, and the media has cast off any pretense of unbiased reporting in their zeal to support socialism, that the middle class sheeple awaken to the dangers of socialism and reject it whole. And the frog in the suddenly boiling pot jumps out. This is happening. The middle class is awakening from their slumber.
Where you will have a challenge convincing me that there is any chance to defeat socialism is that the numbers of enemy are growing faster than the numbers of awakening middle class sheeple.
Jews vote 90% socialist liberal Democrats.
Blacks vote 95% socialist liberal Democrats.
Hispanics vote 80%+ socialist liberal Democrats.
The young vote 80% or so for socialist liberal Democrats.
At least the elderly, the greatest voting block, don’t tend to vote socialist, but when the Republicans tell them they can’t pay their full Social Security checks because we are broke, and the socialists promise the elderly their full checks, most elderly will vote their purses.
That is a sad fact.
I am a lost cause. I know that we must end in Socialism. I pray we can delay it for long. I know we can’t prevent it. I pray it is not sooner than later.
Trying to convince me otherwise is a lost cause and any hope of doing so would have to include very specific mechanisms as to where future conservative support will come from and how to reduce the number of takers from voting socialist so as to keep getting their stream of entitlements.
By way of quick note to correct the record, we don't consider it a delusional effort but I understand your point and your concerns.
Now off to read the rest of your post.
I was speaking ONLY of myself and nobody else. I do not think that others are dellusional. I am saying that with my beliefs, knowing i my heard that socialism is the inevitable end for the USA (just a matter of how soon), I would have to intentionally delude myself into the belief we could reverse course and shrink government, cast off an avalanche of restrictions, and reclaim long lost freedoms.
I apologize if my sloppy writing implied you or any others were dellusional in your beliefs. I don’t believe that to be the case.
The change must come from within the GOP. That is the first battle. If we can't get that battle won, then you are right, it is a lost cause.
Very much enjoy your thoughtful approach to this issue and certainly can not fault you for your position. Not sure where you are in the party, but there can be some pushing without expending too much political capital.
I agree that changine the GOP to principaled conservative leadership from the NWO country club blue bloods, would be a necessary first step in the process. I sincerely doubt this to be possible, but I applaud your optimism and pray for this outcome.
Your point is of course agreed. There are serious short term issues that require our support. What we also need to talk about is long term approach. It is time, long past time, to set the GOP right.
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I have to apologize for my pessimism, but there is no convincing me at this time that we can defeat socialism,
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I won’t try to convince you that we can defeat socialism.
All I can do is try to convince you of this: Please leave the United States ASAP. I mean that sincerely. Please to go France, or whatever other defeatist nation will have you.
but please ... Leave. Soonest.
I only want people here who want to fight for the United States. She has given us everything.
She was born with the defeat of the Spanish Armada, with the Massachusetts Colony, at the bridge from Concord, at the park in Lexington. She turned the world upside down at Yorktown. She was inspired by a speech at Gettysburg and re-united a torn nation. She won at Belleau Wood. She sent Japan’s carriers to the bottom of the sea at an island called Midway. She crawled beyond the sands at Omaha Beach. She triumphed in the frozen woods of the Ardennes. She became the long-foretold “shining city on a hill” and left the Soviet Union on the “ash heap of history”. She let the islamo-fascists know that “the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon”.
Washingon didn’t quit
Lincoln didn’t quit
Roosevelt didn’t quit
Reagan didn’t quit
George W. Bush didn’t quit
If you want to quit, feel free. Leave first, though. Go worship statues of Marshal Petain. But please — just leave.
It’s no accident our country was born where it was. For nearly 200 years we were free from invaders on our two coasts. We were safe.
A power, fate, accidents of history, our quest for liberty, nutured us, cared for us ... until we grew into our power.
The USA has always been in the right place, at the right time, with the right people to lead it. Was it all an accident?
I believe this was no accident. The United States is the spear of God aimed at the heart of evil. There are no guarantees. We must still aim the spear straight and true. We have thrown spears in the past that were ill-aimed.
The battle is endless. The work is formidable. But the task is necessary.
And I only want true believers on the team. People who believe in the USA, who believe in her goodness and liberty.
If you don’t believe in victory — find another team.
It’s not easy to be God’s spear. Just ask Jesus.
And if the most remarkable person who ever lived didn’t quit ... why should we?
If the most amazing human who ever walked on the earth never quit, even knowing that torment, torture and death would be the reward for His ministry ... why should we quit?
-George
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