Posted on 01/22/2011 9:31:16 PM PST by thecodont
The Republican Party, as a brand, is dead in California.
That's the eye-opening consensus of a crowd of political observers, lawmakers and strategists - Democrats and Republicans - gathered at a UC Berkeley symposium this weekend to mull over California's defiantly blue status in the wake of a conservative tide that swept the nation in November.
Many of the 200 attendees at the two-day Institute of Governmental Studies conference appeared surprisingly unified on one issue: that, barring dramatic upheaval, the GOP's prospects may be doomed in the voter-rich Golden State.
"Republicans, as a brand, are dead," Duf Sundheim, the former state GOP chair, told the gathering Saturday.
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Well, “cleanliness” is dead in a septic tank. So what’s his point?
All too true, and as long as politicians promise to take from producers and give to those who in no way deserve it (wealth redistribution), the takers will vote for those politicians. The rest of the country is headed in the same direction, and only some seriously painful lessons will set this country back on the right path.
We shall see. The last time I read anything about CA it was that the state was "bankrupt". Wonder what kind of person will lead the "lost" of CA out of the wilderness? It will not be done by the likes of Jerry Brown.
There’s not much point in fighting the impossible.
I say, let California and Illinois be the poster children for unfettered liberalism. It pains me to see this once-great state slide down the tubes, but I’ll bet Marilyn Monroe had the stomach flu once or twice, and she had to puke her guts out like everyone else.
California is not blue. It is Red! Red, Red, Red!
Actually we are sitting here Away from the coast with our Guns and Horses holding down the Fort.
The GOP “brand” is also “dead” in Cuba, Red China, Iran and North Korea. Liberty and freedom just isn’t welcome in some places.
I am a Californian.
Let me ask fellow Californians if you agree:
I have yet to see any attempt by the California GOP to register new voters.
I was not once contacted by the Whitman or Fiorina campaign.
I saw absolutely no GOTV effort by the Republican Party where I live.
I saw plenty of Whitman ads on TV with her ugly mug and that was it.
That was the effort.
I wonder what the experiences of others were.
Duh. at this point, the republican will have to be either a celebrity or running against a scandal tainted opponent to have any chance.
“RINOs pronounced dead across the political spectrum!”
Well that is really the point isn’t it. California is dead because the right there failed absolutely to defend against the left. The Republican Party have failed to do what must be done to combat the left. In fact, they don’t even show many signs of resisting the take over of the whole country. The left are only doing what one expects. Doing what their credo says they must do. It is the Republicans who have failed. It is the Republicans who have no credo, no plan. They are the true reason California is lost. They completely failed to fight.
Hmmm Duncan Hunter got re-elected no problem.
The political pendulum is ALWAYS swinging.
Democrats have enjoyed some hang time.
California is about to have an economic cardiac arrest and there will be Moonbeam and the democrat brand holding the bag.
The pendulum will swing again.
From the outside, it appears the CA GOP death began with that Prop 187 or whatever the number was on that immigration prop that passed overwhelmingly, then was overturned by the courts. It doesn’t help that the GOP conservatives and moderates consider each other more the ‘enemy’ than the Dems.
I think I heard that the GOP brand was dead in the United States in November 2008.
Maybe a Republican should run for office in California and we will see.
It doesn’t matter.
In not too many years La Republica de Alta California will secede from the USA and eventually become a state in Mexico.
Unlike the Civil War, there will no longer be any desire to save the Union when most “Americans” have been educated to loathe their country.
It started back in 2009 when the then President Barry Obama declared that “America was not an exceptional nation”.
The GOP “brand” is also “dead” in Cuba, Red China, Iran and North Korea. Liberty and freedom just isn’t welcome in some places.
He is also confusing Republicans and RINOs. We don’t have Republicans here, we have only RINOs.
And you killed it, you stupid idiot Duf. Don't dare let anyone run with party support who actually presents a clear and concise alternative to the liberal machine. We've got to be a big tent, we've got to moderate our viewpoints to have a shot at getting someone elected.
How'd that work out? The ONE time in recent years that Republicans actually presented an alternative to the liberal ideology was during the Grey Davis recall, and 67% of Californians voted for a Republican. The same percentage voted to ban benefits to illegals, the same percentage voted to put in tougher sentences (three strikes) against criminals.
The GOP can be resurrected and absolutely wipe the board in California if they stand up and say, 'we're cutting government, we're cutting the benefits, we're cutting all the largess. We're going to kick out the idiots, dissolve the collective bargaining agreements, and laugh at any court that tries to tell us that we can't. Because we are a state in the United States, a sovereign entity which can not be compelled by anyone, the Congress, the courts, and even the voters to spend money on junk we don't want to.
Instead, we get liberal after liberal who might, just might, be kinda against abortion. Whoopee.
‘Right’ flight?
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