Part of the blandness, the rinoism of the California GOP, is that they seem terrified of having to mix with working men, women, blacks and Hispanics, Evangelical Christians.
The California GOP is mostly made up of bloodless drones and timid nerds who prefer hanging out with each other.
The GOP here are being destroyed by the massive amounts of legal people and illegals on great society programs. They are also being deluged money wise by billions in the money government unions can funnel to the Democrats in this state.
They have NOTHING to compete with. Democrats totally bribe or outspend all else here. This is the problem CA has.