Thanks for the stimulating thread and comments, calcowgirl and alia.
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alia, Good reply and very thoughtful, it made me set my pitchfork down for a minute so I could read it..
Your comments about supporting other parties are interesting. Unfortunately, The little fellars I have in the past voted for are still little, what's up with that? ;-)
Ahh, the Recall days , sigh , when this state had a chance to make a statement, and the message and party got mugged instead by a novice politician, behind the scene elite advisors, a bargeload of hype, and a lot of dough from supporters worldwide, large and small.
Which should raise the question, How does a little guy (Tom)with sound ideas make it on the stage when he is outshone by GReen, hype and has little plans at hand to talk about other than generalities, cut cut cut taxes, etc ad nasueum.
Here we are 2 years down the road, and the state debt is larger, the budget is larger, some progress has been made in a few areas, but , overall, California has turned no corner nor changed its direction much at all the last 2 years. In fact, has gone backwards as more GReen influence is now exercised than ever before.
It doesn't take a poll or a focus group to tell me how or what I would like to change in this sticky mess of gubamint special effects that has leeched onto this state's tax coffers like The Blob.
The voters of California will vote for who they feeel like it, if they show up at all the next few elections. Here's hoping sanity prevails! ;-)
It will be a wild ride, a real E ticket one!
PS - did ya know the GUb says global warming is real and something must be done asap.? And he supposedly speaks for the voters of California, :)
Which should raise the question, How does a little guy (Tom)with sound ideas make it on the stage when he is outshone by GReen, hype and has little plans at hand to talk about other than generalities, cut cut cut taxes, etc ad nasueum.
That is EXACTLY what I've tried my darnest to address or question in this thread.
PS - did ya know the GUb says global warming is real and something must be done asap.? And he supposedly speaks for the voters of California, :)
YUP. I wondered "what's up with that"? This would be the right time for genuine conservatives within the CAGOP to crank out letters to the editor making their own case for principles, IMHO. Articles submitted to e-zines, magazines, etc.
On another matter -- re Arnold and global warming... It's just gotta be infuriating to the Dems and their allies -- him upstaging their own agenda. Oh well, I bet their protests and "anti-Governator" money gets bigger and bigger and wilder and wilder. E-ticket ride? No kidding. (Pretty please, NormsRevenge? You do post the best gifs of the usual "blue zone" protests in CA. Remember me if ya ping, pls? I wanna see if they've changed their usual fashions yet while doing protests. Some of the puppetry antics were definitely due for an update to being more "progressive", IMHO.)
Back to it, it does come down to the vote. And genuine conservatives in CA can simply vote NO or yes, or whatever they please. It does put the "conservative" CAGOP into position which can definitely be disconcerting. But, I don't think CAGOP should fear. A principle is a principle, and truth does bear out.