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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
As the Republican party scrambles quickly to the far left, the party's chances in California come up rapidly.
or perhaps some catastrophic event happens in the Land of Fruits and Nuts
Why vote for Rat-Lite when you can vote for the real thing?
That guy has the craziest eyes I have seen in a long time.
Be nice, he’s a fellow “former Clevelander” LOL
So the only turns you can legally make on red are lefts?
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.
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.
Good point.
But that makes TWO headaches you’ve given me today...
Whenever Rove is on Fox, I change channels. Can’t stand Rove.
Badum-bump.
Different show on Thursdays and Mondays.
Try the veal.
Tip the waitresses and drive home safely.
Land of fruits and nuts. A no.
Get real.
This is californication.
The Democrats thought they would get a seat in Georgia in 2014. No guarantees.
Delusional.
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.
We will win if we exhume Ronald Reagan.
That’s what I was thinking, but I bet it has Oxy in the name... gibsmedat some...
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.
The demographics of California have changed somewhat since Reagan's day...
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