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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My research indicated so far there have been 6 all-Dem elections and 2 all-Rep elections.
So it cuts both ways, but seemingly proportional to the overall makeup of the electorate.
Correction: The MEDIA thought it could get a Democrat elected. Democrats were hopeful, but they KNEW in their hearts they couldn’t win it outright - maybe if it was a runoff and the Senate hung in the balance and they could spend a billion dollars of Obama money.
They were just banking on conservatives staying home that day.
lol. I have given up on California as well.
if they could outlaw conservative thoughts they would in california
If it has to be a democrat with an R by “her” name, forget it. The price is too high.
California has spent all of its money and wants to now tap into the earnings of the rest of the nation. Aren’t they overdue to fall off into the ocean? Haven’t “experts” been saying for a long time that was going to happen?
Maybe in some as yet to be introduced board game to be played on rainy Saturday afternoons; but not in reality.
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