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I would imagine that Generals fighting wars have to occasionally 'step back' from the individual battles they are fighting, to check on the overall progress of the total campaign against the enemy. Of course, for fiscal conservatives, the 'enemy' is growth in size and scope of spending of government at every level -- or put another way, the goal of the war is to preserve, and in fact 'win back' freedom and liberty for the people. When California voters stepped up in 2003 to ceremoniously recall now-disgraced Governor Gray Davis, that effort was led by a strong coalition of people...

Ron Nehring, a conservative from San Diego County, was elected chairman of the California Republican Party Sunday at the close of its state convention in Sacramento. Nehring, who works with the national conservative activist Grover Norquist, succeeds chairman George "Duf" Sundheim, a Silicon Valley attorney, who was a close ally of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Tom Del Beccaro, a conservative attorney from Contra Costa County, was elected vice chairman. Two resolutions aimed at the new fees included in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan for universal health care failed to get out of a committee because there was no quorum.