"California’s GOP Revival"

E-mail | 10-26-01 | Shawn Steel

[StoneColdGOP]

FYI...

[jrp]

Also, I hope a lot of folks are sick of all
the gun control that has been rammed down our
throats over the last few years by the Dems and
will vote accordingly.

[democratsstealvotes]

This is wonderful news. Now if only we can keep the demos from stealing votes.

[Hostage]

I hope this letter is more than cheerleading. When are Boxer and Feinstein up for reelection?

[GOP_1900AD]

Step one, dump the Marxist in GOP clothing Riordan...

[mjk19]

I wish this was true but I am pretty pessimistic. California has become a third world country with a "U" shape social structure (lots of rich and poor no middle class). The rich vote Demoncat because they care more about their leftist social views since they can afford the high taxes and costs. Just look at Silicon Valley which eventhough its a great entrepreneurial area is soldly Demoncatic. The poor, mostly immigrants, might be socially conservative but they want the gov't handouts. The middle class had been driven out by the poor schools and high costs of living to places like Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah. Notice that these states are soldly Republican.

[101viking]

"The rich vote Demoncat because they care more about their leftist social views since they can afford the high taxes and costs."

The "rich" vote democrat because they can be bought cheaper.

[laureldrive]

""""The middle class had been driven out by the poor schools and high costs of living to places like Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah. Notice that these states are soldly Republican""""

You're analysis is all too accurate, except don't forget California's high, high taxes. And lots of nanny state regulations. You're right that these don't bother the insulated rich. It's the middle class who get whacked - - which is why you're correct that NV, CO, ID and UT are flooded with former Californians.

[David]

First step is you need to find some viable Republican candidates which you don't have on the scene at this moment.

[Saundra Duffy]

Wishful thinking. For victory & freedom!!!

[The Vast Right Wing]

I'm rich and I vote Republican. I think the more appropriate line is that the stupid vote Democrat. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people in Ca with the t-shirt that say's "I'm with stupid"

[doctor noe]

Shawn Steel is pissing in the wind. CA's GOP is still as hopelessly rudderless as it was a year ago. The GOP can only realistically hope to capture, at the most, one Dem-controlled House seat. Despite spending like out-of-control drunken sailors, the legislature will remain firmly entrenched in the hands of the Dems. Gray Davis' approval #s are in the tank but is the GOP really going to get excited about RHINO Riordan? Maybe it's just as well because Bill Jones is not exactly Mr. Excitement. William Simon's campaign will likely peter out before it starts. I frankly think that Steel is blowing smoke up the proverbial arses of the Party faithful.

[CCalConservative]

REVISED STEP ONE: Expose Riordan to the public for what he is. Outside of venues such as this, few people, even well meaning republicans, are aware of what a sham-republican he is. When you see Clinton and Gore buddies signing on to Riordan's election team, a huge flag should go out. Just calling oneself a republican, does not a republican make.

[justanotherfreeper]

The latest census data tells the whole story: in the last ten years, California had 2 million more people leave the state to live in one of the other 49 states than folks from the other 49 states moving in. However, the state grew about 14% (or about 3 million people) So you replaced 2 million taxpayers and productive folks with 5 million -- you guessed it -- illegal immigrants!

True, these folks came here to work and are culturally conservative, but traditionally immigrants vote Democrat for the first generation at least, and they are low income and poorly educated, easy prey for Dem lies.

I am one of the two million who voted with my feet, having gotten fed up and moved to Virginia in 97. I don't see how anyone can paint a happy face on these numbers, the GOP is in trouble in California for the forseeable future.

[Sabertooth]

President Bush’s popularity among Hispanics is also drawing large numbers of new voters to the Republican Party. This is particularly substantial in California, where over the last decade the Latino vote has represented virtually all of the increase in the electorate. The California Republican Party is reaching out to these new Latino voters. Newly sworn-in American citizens, many of whom are Hispanic, are waiting in long lines after naturalization ceremonies to have their picture taken with cutouts of President Bush. These new voters are proud to be American citizens, and believe that their President has demonstrated a significant interest in the Latino community. The President’s popularity in this ever-growing segment of the California electorate opens the door for Republican challengers at all levels of government."

This is fatuaous self-delusion...

Whatever the number of new Hispanic voters that went Republican, it was more than doubled by those who went Democrat. Toss in the hundreds of thousands of illega alien votes for Democrat candidates, and you have a million-vote Gore drubbing of Bush here in 2000, and guaranteed Republican defeats for generations.

The Davis Energy Debacle and the War on Terror might provide a brief respite from this trend, but the Republicans are no match for the craven Hispanic vote-buying of Democrats.

The winning strategy for Republicans is now and will always be a moral stand against colonistas. Any time a strong campaign aginst political correctness is run in California, whether against illegal immigration, bilingual education, affirmative action, or homosexual marriage, the forces of decency prevail.

Republican politicians of California: If you haven't got the stones to do what's right, you're gonna be a perpetual loser party in this state. The Bennett/Kemp wing has led to nothing but electoral disaster in California, and deserves burial in an unmarked grave for East-of-the-Mississippi political cowardice.

And the first Republican who paints a Democrat into a pro-colonista corner will break the Leftist stranglehold on the black vote, because the illegals hurt undercalss-blacks more than anyone else. The Dems have been stabbing this contituency in the back for decades, and the Republicans too obsequious to make the case.

Furthermore, the coddling of illegals is soon going to become a heavy political liability in the War on Terror.

[biblewonk]

"He did it, he did it, I told you he could do it and indeed he did"

[Cinnamon Girl]

Party efforts this year have led to over 117 thousand new Republican voters.

Only 1.4 million to go to kick Gray Davis' butt all over Sacramento!

[StoneColdGOP]

Did you hear the news? Still going to the convention tomorrow?

[Aunt Polgara]

What news?

Yeah, I'm going to the convention tomorrow, for what it's worth. :-(

How about you?