Posted on 07/16/2010 3:49:06 PM PDT by thecodont
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, who recently campaigned with GOP former Gov. Pete Wilson as being "tough as nails" on illegal immigration, could alienate her crucial conservative base, some party members say, by declaring she's in lockstep on the issue with her rival: former Gov. Jerry Brown.
In an opinion piece published this week in a Spanish-language publication in Southern California, Whitman wrote that there is "very little" that she disagrees with Brown on concerning the hot-button issue of illegal immigration.
While both agree that undocumented immigrants should not be allowed to get amnesty or obtain driver's licenses, Brown's camp says they disagree on key issues, including whether to give illegal immigrants a path to legalization, which Brown supports.
Riling conservatives
Still, Whitman's statement has riled some conservatives to the point that they're threatening to sit out the election - an exodus that could hamper Whitman's chances.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/16/MNSG1EEV3R.DTL#ixzz0tt7uSIE4
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Don’t blame me. I voted for Poizner....would’ve liked to have voted for McClintock.
I voted Miller. The only conservative in the race!
No, the state government and some of the local governments are close to being done...Much like the feds and many other states.
This is no surprise, as was expected for some years now as they were spending more than they took in. Government bloated out, became obese and now on the verge of dropping dead.
Even the state insiders know the tax payers have no more money to give. Government's days of willy nilly raising taxes are over. The good times for bloated government are at an end.
There is no way out for them and there was no way this would have ever turn around without the state going completely belly up.
No different than watching a lousy junkie that can't get fix...
I despise anti whale-hunters and their running dog lackeys. Let's hear it for marinated and fermented whale blubber!
BTW, here in Virginia there used to be NOTHING BUT DEMOCRATS. It was a one-party state. Then, one day, a couple of RINOs decided to run as Republicans ~ even held a primary and I don't know if anyone came.
Eventually Conservatives had a real party to work with, not just that coalition stuff with the hard-core commies and KKK types so prevalent in Mid-Atlantic Democrat politics.
(When I moved here Democrats were still burning crosses in people's front yards ~ politics were kind of rough then)
We just recently voted in a Conservative Governor, Lt. Governor and AG and lack control of the Senate by 1 vote or so. We control the House.
The state Congressional delegation is predominantly Republican.
Now imagine if the voters 40 years ago had said "Naw, we'd rather put in more Democrats to keep on running the state down than to vote for a single RINO" ~ there'd still be no Conservatives in office around here ~ to say nothing of holding every important position.
Think of California as a place for Republican and Conservative missionaries ~ just like Virginia used to be. You can take it back from the barbarians a piece at a time.
NEVER vote RINO!!
They’ll screw you in the end EVERY time!!
Witness the vaunted RINO but forty-first anti-Obama Senate vote in action:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2554100/posts
Suckers!! Never vote for a RINO! They’ll screw you in the end every time!!
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I tried to get em to vote for Chuck DeVore, but nobody listened to me!
We must always compare Brown to the competition ~ not to the Governor of Virginia!
BTW, we have real Conservatives in office here, as Republicans. Even the Democrats have a former Republican named Jim Webb who they wedged in with an entreaty to the otherwise moribund ("we's punishing all 'a youse damnedyankees") KKK vote serving as US Senator.
If we could just get rid of the move-ins from Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, we could probably eliminate the Democrats forever around here but right now the US government won't allow us to deport them.
Brown is a RINO idiot. So is Arnold. So is Whitman. So is FioRINO!!
Never vote RINO!!
They’ll screw you in the end every time!!
Wake up and smell the TEA!!
Rebellion is brewing!!
“Can we start a Chuck DeVore write-in campaign?’
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DEVORE RAN FOR THE US SENATE.......AND WAS DEFEATED EASILY BY CARLY FIORINIA......HIS CHANCES AS A WRITE IN FOR GOVERNOR ARE SLIM AND NONE......JUST THE REALITY OF THE SITUATION.......SORRY!
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Oh Yeah that’s right we had that wonderful option of voting for the real conservative, Steve Poizner. /sarc
Jim, we had rino Meg or rino Steve. ???? who ya gonna vote for that isn’t going to spend, spend, spend?
Ken Miller.
There's no evidence any of the people named were ever actual Democrats ~ so let's call them opportunists.
What you use a RINO for is to win in a district (or state) where you may need one more seat to take control of a legislative house. That way you control the legislative agenda AND appropriations. Without that control the Democrats control the agenda and appropriations.
Opportunists are always looking for the easy way, so we have to provide that to them ~
At the moment Mr. Brown is getting an easy ride, so he's going along with the folks in the Masschusetts delegation to Congress, his friends and neighbors, and the Senate leadership.
What we need to do is LIGHT A FIRE UNDER him so fierce it kills off the hair follicles permanently.
I haven't seen anyone do that yet ~ all we have are folks catching him in after action situations where he's voted with the Democrats. He has to be nailed down BEFORE the votes.
That is the sort of job best handled by the Republican Senators who have access to him. Apparently they are not doing their jobs ~ so it's OUR JOB to send some new Senators to the Senate so they can provide some new guiding principles to Mr. Brown ~ and maybe visiting him in the cloakroom with two or three of the more fit and trim members.
Hmm. Maybe deal with Brown exactly like the Democrats are dealing with him ~
It’s not rocket science. You want better candidates, reject the rejects!!
Never vote RINO!!
Doesn’t matter; Brown will win there anyway. It’s California, the Fool’s Golden State.
If you don't win control the better candidates will go somewhere else. After all, there's nothing like going to work and being locked out of the committee meeting rooms, and excluded from all the meaningful organizational efforts.
You have a chance to help the Republicans win legislative control of the Senate. It might well result in an opportunist winning the Governorship (as if Governor Moonbeam isn't an opportunist himself) (giggle, giggle ~ oh lord do you have a mess of incompetent people running for office out there).
You may not want an opportunist as California Senator, but you can't let Obama keep control. We have to destabilize his coalition and destroy his ability to govern. Whatever it takes, that's what has to happen. To start with that means kicking Boxer out.
You can do that however you want.
Never vote RINO!! It ain’t rocket science!!
Bump! Well said!
As I said in another thread, California has had a great run. It was at its greatest decades ago, but has been in steady decline since Reagan left as Governor. The quality of their state government officials and U.S. Senators tell us all we need to know about that state. The only hope for CA is to snip it in two, with the demarcation at L.A. county, and let that part of the state merge with Mexico.
...and Fiorina's chances in the Senate race as well. So Whitman's flip-flop could screw a once-in-a-generation chance (however slim) of knocking off Boxer for her Senate seat.
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