California GOP ponders way forward after stunning losses

In a speech to fellow Republicans in May, U.S. Rep. Mimi Walters issued an ominous warning about the coming election — California Democrats, she said, were “coming for all of us.”

The congresswoman’s stunning defeat Thursday in the heart of Orange County, once a nationally known Republican stronghold, extended a Democratic rout that has seen five GOP-held House seats fall in the state, with another one threatened.

Last week’s election delivered mixed results around the U.S. — Republicans held the Senate, Democrats seized the House — but in California voters turned the state an even deeper shade of Democratic blue.

With Walters’ loss to newcomer Katie Porter, Democrats will hold a 44-9 edge in U.S. House seats, with another Orange County GOP seat in peril. The county was once home to President Richard Nixon and was considered a foundation of the modern conservative movement, gaining the moniker “Reagan country.”

Democrats are on track to hold every statewide office — again. And there wasn’t even a Republican on the ballot for U.S. Senate.

“The California Republican Party isn’t salvageable at this time,” concluded Kristin Olsen, a former Republican leader in the state Assembly.

“The Grand Old Party is dead — partly because it has failed to separate itself from today’s toxic, national brand of Republican politics,” she wrote in a column on the website CALmatters.

Shawn Steel, one of California’s two Republican National Committee members, said the state party has “reached the point of desperation.”

“The party’s problems have been around longer and run much deeper than any one person. From money to grassroots organization, California Republicans are completely outmatched,” Steel wrote on the Washington Examiner website.

So here's the result of the "Blue Wave"... don't let the media hype get you down TOO much...

14 states now have all-Dem control (Gov, Senate, House)... and yet 23 states are still all-GOP controlled. (MN is the only state with split Houses... but 13 still have a different-party Governor.)

Governorships: the GOP lost 7, and gained 1... and are still ahead 27-23

The GOP Senate lost AZ and NEV (and maybe MISS... NOV 27 runoff)... and yet gained ND, IN, FL, and MO... +1 or +2 overall.

The GOP House lost 36 seats (maybe up to 40... lawyers are still finding magic ballots in 4 races)... which is about average... compare to Clinton's first midterm (-52) and Obama's first midterm losses (-63).... as well as Ford (-48), LBJ (-47), GWB2 (-30), Reagan1 (-26), Carter (-15), etc.

The House is now (at worst) 235-200.... yet the Dems had 254 for Obama's first 2 years, and had at least 242, and as many as 292, for almost four decades, from 1959 to 1995.

Outside of the West Coast (CA 42-2, OR 4-0, and WA 6-1) and the Northeast Corridor (greater NYC 16-2, MD 9-1, CT 5-0, RI 1-0, VT 1-0, NH 2-0, ME 2-0, MASS 9-0, NJ 11-1, DEL 1-0), it's at worst 117-193

There will be at least 104 new faces out of the 435 in the 116th Congress... about 1/4 of all of of the seats... a pretty big victory for those who wanted to "Drain the Swamp"

Like NY the republican party is there to catch crumbs thrown from the rat food truck, While visiting NY I seen one commercial and 1 interview of a republican candidate running for governor, one! The dope from part slope mayor deblasio walked right in, there was no resistance that I know of anywhere. GOP ponders way forward? what a crock of sh##. Meanwhile NYC and state got hit with a “SURPRISE” snow storm, not one salt spreader before the storm not one plow during was seen on main roads until it was all over, thousands where stranded in their cars on major highways and streets for hours. And the rats win the house, what is wrong with this picture

Thanks for the kind words. Glad you're back in the game.

I understand how historically this midterm election is far less of a drubbing in the House compared to Bildo Klintoon and Bathhouse Barry, but it didn't have to be a drubbing at all. That's our point. And because it's less of a historical drubbing, it looks like the Stupid Party isn't going to learn any lessons from it and that's aside from the now obvious post-election fraud going on in California, Arizona, Georgia, and Florida.

I say all the time that Republicans need to learn from the Democrats in how to circle the wagons, wield power, and be on the offensive as the minority. You never see the RATS toss one of their own over the side like Republicans regularly do in the name of virtue and integrity. When they're in power, the RATS don't hesitate to use every means available to them which you see with the basket of subpoenas and witness lists they have at the ready for January while the Republicans, with the notable exception of Devin Nunes, sat on their fat asses for two years and didn't pursue Fast and Furious nor Lois Lerner and her IRS persecution to name two of the notable things they could have done. In fact, the IRS disgrace was so bad that Republican leaders in one of their usual play nice with the RATS acts of betrayal, blocked impeaching that rat bastard IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. I'm sure Justice Kavanaugh will be heartened by his party's bipartisanship when he's getting roasted on the spit during his impeachment hearings and they start backing away from him.

In the minority, the RATS are always taking it directly to the Republicans, calling them out on every vote as the worst in humanity, fighting for every inch, and when it comes time to do one of those bipartisan committees like the 9-11 Commission, they stack their side with the most vicious partisans while the Republicans appoint squishy statesmen who shrink from view on day one. The next two years of Republican minority in the House will begin with them retaining the same RINOs in minority leadership who lost them the bloody place as majority leadership followed by ranking member after ranking member, again with the notable exception of Devin Nunes, who will acquiesce to the RAT majority in the most subservient of ways. And just to add to the mess ahead, Mitt Romney is already talking crap about how he's going to take over McCain's role of pissing in the Republican tent while McConnell and company are silent instead of telling Mittens that he'll spend his six years with no committee assignments and an office in the janitor's closet.

They haven't learned anything which is why they richly deserve being called the Stupid Party.

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