[BureaucratusMaximus]

Why empower Democrats? That is a foolish choice IMO!

Californians have been enpowering democrats for years...IMHO they deserve a candidate like Arnold. That goes for the (R) party as a whole too...we had a shot to do some really good things in '94, but we blew it...badly. The result was 6 years of the SinkEmperor, and a centrist/socialist RINO of a presdient who most on this board were creaming in their pants after he was elected. Minus the handling of 9/11...I'm pretty disappointed. Too many people have lowered the ladder as far as conservatism goes, the appeasement and triangulation is sickening...this country is going down the tubes fast; thank the neocons/globalist/free traitors/appeasers/strategeryists for that.

/rant off

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

If the federal government would protect our borders Californians would have a chance at electing a conservative Republican like Ronald Reagan again.
The costs of illegals for the education, health and welfare are enormous. They also take good jobs in construction, hotels, canneries, etc. from many Americans.
California's taxpayers have been paying for the federal government's failure to protect our borders for decades.
With the increase in voter fraud, illegals are now costing us elections; ask Bob Dornan.

[A CA Guy]

What seems to fly over many people's heads here is that the more conservative choices are totally unelectable at this time.
I have never claimed Arnold is my dream go-to guy from a conservative political point of view.
I have said we have lost battle after battle for the hearts and minds of Californians because we keep trying to get elected the whole conservative package at once. That doesn't work and isn't possible.
So either we keep losing races and elect Democrats by putting the same whole package out there or we learn by our mistakes.
If we learn we go with the electable people and as we win, slowly put more and more conservative candidates out there.
Do this over 20 years and you might be then able to elect a "Whole Package Conservative".
There can be no shortcuts in the process though. Just doesn't happen.