[sfwarrior]

There is some life left, maybe, and onlyl if Prop. 32 passes, otherwise, game over for the CA GOP.

[RC2]

One answer....divide the state into two states. Los Angeles and San Francisco go to Southern Calif. Most of Northern Calif is Republican anyway.

[pallis]

Arnold ain’t saying he’ll be back, and no one wants him. Funny how things change. Remember when the RINOs were telling conservatives that Arnold and California were the example for how the Republican Party should go?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The demise of the Republican party in California simply means Americans have been out bred by aliens. California’s fate merely points to the method by which America is being conquered by the Third World.

[LouAvul]

I lived there till '05. My observation is that there is a small minority of true conservatives in kal. But the "republican party" is more aligned with the democratic party of old and the democratic party is rank communist.

And kalifornistan will never, ever, never divide into two separate states. There's too much money to be stolen by the pigs in Sacramento for them to allow that to happen.

[SMARTY]

Dead? I thought rigor mortis set in LONG ago!!

[CaptainAmiigaf]

In the future, students will study the resulting demise of a once-great state when it willingly adopted a political system known as “ONE PARTY RULE”.
It has worked so very well everywhere it’s been tried.
California has two problems, those flocking IN and those who are sadly ESCAPING. The “takers” and the “makers”

[Scott from the Left Coast]

The problem dooming California is that even if 32 is passed, enterprising judges will be easily found to get it declared unconstitutional...as they have all of the other good propositions that have been passed by the voters over the years.

An aside...this is exactly what the entire nation has in front of it should Obama get a second term. The country will be unrecognizable and in the iron grip of the Marxist/Fascists for at least generations.

[NormsRevenge]

2003 was the end of the CAGoP. It failed to deliver and now we all pay thru the nose and pocketbooks for Rinos on steroids who spent like drunken DemocRats and partied with them while the state burned.

[Navy Patriot]

...if Prop. 32 passes...

It will be voided by ONE judge.

California will only be mitigated by producers moving their treasure, income, production and maybe even themselves out of state.

[SwankyC]

is due to the fact that the party has run out of ideas popular with the electorate and that it has grown increasingly conservative, out of step with independents who decide elections

Huh!? HARD LEFT california passed stuff like the Prop 187 and Prop 8 and conservatives are going extinct?

[txrefugee]

Could be. All the sane conservatives are moving to TX and AZ. It will really get interesting when there are no more producers and the number of public parasites keeps growing.

[ansel12]

The Protestant vote is dead in California.

[kenmcg]

The whole friggin state is dead!!!

[fifedom]

I hate to rain on the gloom and doom party but the original article and many posters here have it wrong.

A. The Dems cannot just pass anything they want. The most important fact is that prop 13 is still in effect so they need a 2/3 majority to increase taxes or fees. And they do not have enough votes and the June primary results indicate they will not get it.

B. Judges do not overturn every good initiative. Far from it. Prop 13, Prop 209, the CA initiative forbidding racial preferences, even Prop 8, the traditional marriage initiative are still in effect. The Left has taken them to court many times and always lost.

C. Moonbeam's tax raising initiative is in big trouble. Even with a full court press by the media about the terrible things that will happen if it does not pass, the voters ain't buying it. He made a strategic blunder by including a sales tax increase, which everyone including the illegals has to pay. The voters here seldom vote to increase their own taxes.

Rumors of the death of the CAGOP are greatly exaggerated.

And BTW, the article was not well researched. Meg Whitman became CEO of HP after the election.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

YORBA LINDA (1994) — Former Republican Cabinet Secretary Jack F. Kemp . . . defended his condemnation of Proposition 187, the illegal immigration reform measure on the Nov. 8 state ballot . . . [it was] his first public discussion of his opposition to the initiative [and] puts him at odds with the state Republican Party . . . [Kemp] told the audience not to "scapegoat the problems of California on immigrants because they are not the source of the problem" . . . [both] Kemp and William J. Bennett, another former Republican Cabinet secretary, had prepared a statement strongly opposing the anti-immigration initiative . . . Kemp and Bennett . . . believe Proposition 187 . . . may "contribute to a nativist, anti-immigrant climate." . . . Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) issued a stinging rebuke of Kemp. "His act of stupidity has knocked him right out of the presidential race," Rohrabacher told reporters. "If he disagreed with it, he should have kept his mouth shut. . . . Jack Kemp wants to be loved. The man is using his heart, but that's not the organ of the body meant for thinking." [End of quotes from a LA Times article]

That was the beginning -- even before we passed Prop187 by about 60/40 and where about 30 percent of Californians came out to vote solely because of the Save Our State initiative -- of years of Kemp, Bennett, Jeb Bush, and the like condemnation and name-calling of the California Republican Party and its "wrong-headed," "mean-spirited," "bigoted," "racist," "hateful," "anti-immigration" policies. They wanted the Republicans to be more sensitive while opposing big taxes and too much regulations. Basically, it seems to me, making them Democrats who oppose high taxes and too many regulations on businesses.

The state Republicans agreed with the national Republican elites' stupidity and it knocked the state Republicans right out of statewide races.. I think that the Republicans have won three state-wide races since then.. Wilson (1994), an insurance commissioner (he was recalled IIRC), and Schwarzenkennedy.

[Vendome]

It’s dead Jim.