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Republicans Can Win Boxer’s Senate Seat
breitbart.com ^ | 1/12/15 | Assemblyman Tim Donnelly

Posted on 01/12/2015 10:15:09 AM PST by cotton1706

Boxer’s Senate seat is the GOP’s to lose.

But you’d never know it reading the news coverage. Pundits have already awarded the seat to one of the many Democrats rumored to run. Ironic that early rumors had two Democrat billionaires as possible suitors.

I wonder how that would go. Would they tone down the class warfare rhetoric? Or would they behave like the GOP and go to war with themselves?

Either way, it would be good for Republicans whose statewide drought has continued unabated since as long as anyone can remember.

It’s become common knowledge that Republicans can’t win because California is too liberal. Yet that’s simply not true.

Republicans have lost because they are ruthless at stamping out grassroots candidates who make the party elite uncomfortable, then put up candidates so moderate and so boring that the grumpy, old, white extremist Democrats–Brown, Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer–win every time.

Why? Because they actually believe in what they believe in. Love or hate him, Jerry Brown has a visceral quality that you have to admire, even if you vehemently disagree with his policies. He’s a street fighter.

Do you even remember who the GOP put up?

If the GOP continues to follow the Karl Rove playbook, they will affirm the definition of insanity and they will continue to lose. Rove’s plan for California, in the first gubernatorial race conducted under the “jungle primary” rules, was to bring all the power and resources of the GOP establishment to destroy the conservative candidate in order to lose the general election with a more moderate, less offensive candidate.

In the general, Rove’s strategy worked like a charm–and Republicans lost.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: barbaraboxer; california; elections; jerrybrown
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To: cotton1706
Actually, I agree with the author.

As the Republican party scrambles quickly to the far left, the party's chances in California come up rapidly.

21 posted on 01/12/2015 10:29:27 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: PCPOET7

or perhaps some catastrophic event happens in the Land of Fruits and Nuts


22 posted on 01/12/2015 10:29:46 AM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: Lazamataz

Why vote for Rat-Lite when you can vote for the real thing?


23 posted on 01/12/2015 10:30:10 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Regulator

That guy has the craziest eyes I have seen in a long time.


24 posted on 01/12/2015 10:31:32 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Lazamataz

Be nice, he’s a fellow “former Clevelander” LOL


25 posted on 01/12/2015 10:32:54 AM PST by nascarnation (....)
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To: PCPOET7

So the only turns you can legally make on red are lefts?


26 posted on 01/12/2015 10:35:19 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: cotton1706

You could run the most RINO of the RINO’s and He/She still would not
win.

The only motive I can see is people involved who make money off campaigns, such as Media, Consultants etc are floating this nonsense.

Pure fantasy.


27 posted on 01/12/2015 10:36:05 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: cotton1706

Sure a GOPer can win that seat... if “The Big One” takes out SF and LA counties first.

Otherwise... no friggin’ way. Tom Steyer, Antonio Villaraigosa, Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsome will filling it after Boxer leaves.


28 posted on 01/12/2015 10:37:10 AM PST by ScottinVA (Communism, liberalism and Islam: Kindred ideologies dedicated to America's destruction.)
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To: Lazamataz

Good point.

But that makes TWO headaches you’ve given me today...


29 posted on 01/12/2015 10:37:13 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: txrefugee

Whenever Rove is on Fox, I change channels. Can’t stand Rove.


30 posted on 01/12/2015 10:39:28 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: WayneS
If you can manage to get a headache in the evening, you could audition as my wife!

Badum-bump.
Different show on Thursdays and Mondays.
Try the veal.
Tip the waitresses and drive home safely.

31 posted on 01/12/2015 10:40:52 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: cotton1706

Land of fruits and nuts. A no.


32 posted on 01/12/2015 10:41:33 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: cotton1706

Get real.

This is californication.


33 posted on 01/12/2015 10:44:18 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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To: cotton1706

The Democrats thought they would get a seat in Georgia in 2014. No guarantees.


34 posted on 01/12/2015 10:45:37 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: cotton1706

Delusional.


35 posted on 01/12/2015 10:50:13 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: napscoordinator

I think the Republicans will be lucky just to get a candidate listed for the Nov election.
With the new Prop 14 “jungle primary” rules, it could well be 2 Dems on the ballot.


36 posted on 01/12/2015 10:51:44 AM PST by nascarnation (....)
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To: cotton1706

We will win if we exhume Ronald Reagan.


37 posted on 01/12/2015 10:52:26 AM PST by Pirate Ragnar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s what I was thinking, but I bet it has Oxy in the name... gibsmedat some...


38 posted on 01/12/2015 10:54:31 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: nascarnation

That is true. They have that rule now. We may not even have a candidate in this race. I completely forgot about that rule. I think Republicans passed the law too....kinda weird law.


39 posted on 01/12/2015 10:55:40 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Pirate Ragnar
We will win if we exhume Ronald Reagan.

The demographics of California have changed somewhat since Reagan's day...

40 posted on 01/12/2015 10:56:59 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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