Republicans fold tent in California

Signs of things to come nationwide:

Yesterday, the only serious Republican contender against Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA), some software huckster named Bill Mulling, folded
his tent and scurried back under a rock, leaving the Repukes with NO
one to run against her. It could wind up being Feinstein's biggest
victory margin ever, and that's assuming the Repukes can even find
anyone willing to run, which is now doubtful. The whacko wing of the
state party, the California Republican Assembly, has managed to paint
itself into a corner, since all of their right wing loony candidates
to date have been routinely routed in every election. The CRA opposed
the election of AHHHnuld Braunschwagger by putting forth their own
right wing whack candidate, and got nothing in the bargain, as Bill
"Simple" Simon got barely 15% of the vote..

Meanwhile, in Sacramento, AHHHHnuld, who just got his ass kicked by
the voters on every one of his ballot initiatives, is throwing out
right wingers one after another, a direction confirmed by his
appointment of Susan P. Kennedy, a member of the Public Utilities
Commission, as his chief of staff, replacing a right wing operative
formerly appointed by unpopular Repuke governor Pete Wilson. Kennedy
isn't particularly liked by the mainstream Democrats, as she tends to
be too willing to please corporate interests and is a fan of ruinous
"deregulation," but Schwarzzie, who is even lower in polls than is
George "I'm Trying To Escape" Bush, is now trying to reconstruct his
administration in the image and likeness of the guy he beat in the
phony recall election, Gray Davis. Why would a Repuke appoint a
Lesbian Democrat as his chief of staff? Because the Republican Party
is imploding, and his only hope in '06 is to siphon off some
independents, a move which worked for him in '04...but won't work
again.

The Democrats will have to choose among Treasurer Phil Angelides,
Controller Steve Westley and Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi,
but wait...Gray Davis is showing up on local TV and is talking a good
game! Any of these are electable candidates; AHHHnuld is not...he's a
stiff, and the whack job CRA's choices will simply go down in flames
yet again, since their Southern religious kook immigrants in the cow
counties don't have the numbers necessary to give them even 40% of the
vote. Looks like California, once again, will have NO Republican
elected officials in its state government after '06! Right now,
AHHHnuld's the only one, and we know where HE'S going....early
retirement!

Signs of things to come nationwide:
You can't seriously think that what is happening in
California is any kind of litmus test for middle/most America? I am pretty
sure as the baby boomers continue to age they will become more conservative.
Maybe not as conservative as some of the current Republicans, but certainly
not interested in what the Democrats have been selling in the last few
elections. The odd thing is that it seems for any politician to be
successful these days, they have to soften their approach and find a middle
fuzzy ground.
Actually, I find that folks I knew in my younger days that were
socialists and have turned more conservative are usually pretty sensible.
But then, who knows.

On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:15:34 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote:

Signs of things to come nationwide:
You can't seriously think that what is happening in
California is any kind of litmus test for middle/most America? snip

Take a look at 20th century history...California's always been the
bellwether politically. They led the drive to "redstateitis" by
embracing right wing conservatives in 1980, long before other states
did. Once the electorate figured they were frauds, Gray Davis one,
only to be upset by the glitz and fakery of AHHHnuld. A scant two
years later, AHHHnuld's in the toilet, another fraud.

I am pretty
sure as the baby boomers continue to age they will become more conservative.
Maybe not as conservative as some of the current Republicans, but certainly
not interested in what the Democrats have been selling in the last few
elections. The odd thing is that it seems for any politician to be
successful these days, they have to soften their approach and find a middle
fuzzy ground. snip

So they enjoy getting screwed by the Corporate Republicans? I don't
think so. The fact of the matter is that, for a good period of fiscal
solvency and prosperity for the middle class, there has to be a system
of checks and balances, which means splitting power between the two
factions. This happened in Clinton's time, one of the most
economically profitable periods in US history, and a period in which
the deficit was retired annually at a record pace. Look at what the
Repukes have done...deficits that make Reagan's fiscal mismanagement
seem like a mere blip.

Actually, I find that folks I knew in my younger days that were
socialists and have turned more conservative are usually pretty sensible.
But then, who knows. snip

I know Communists who went into corporate management. I call this
"fad idiology." I'm not as fickle and shallow. I hold the same
political beliefs I've had for 40 years.

EXCELLENT post WWW

"If a man is not a liberal when he is 20, he has no heart. If a man
is not a conservative when he is 40, he has no brain."- Winston
Churchill

there are many variations of that saying- but we get the point.

Bob,

You are willing and able and DO buy anything you need or want from the
corporations on one hand, you enjoy your pension checks, and spend
them as you like- yet you bash that same system every day. How would
you like to work until the day you dropped over dead ? I'd say you
have it pretty good, for someone with limited education and social
skills, and no political influence. Maybe you should start counting
your blessings already.

If it wasn't for those "corporations', you'd be in a 3rd world country
instead of an industrial/economic giant. If it wasn't for those
"corporations", you would have no investments or pension. Who pays
your pension ? A corporation does.

If it wasn't for those "corporations", you'd have NO MODERN
CONVENIENCES- no electricity- no fuel or cars- no internet- no phone-
no radio- no TV- no city utilities- yet you bash them on a daily basis.


Only someone with a very limited IQ bites the hand that feeds them-
actually that's the IQ level of an animal- or lower. Even a dog
appreciates its owner.

There is truth to what you write. Republicans usually seem to credit
themselves and their work for succeeding successful Democrat years. IE, the
Clinton admin. Then when they get back in and the economy goes in the toilet
they claim it is because of the previous Democrat years. IE, young Bush.
And all parties get in with lofty promises, but immediately claim they
hopelessly underestimated how badly the previous administration had left the
treasury and it will take at least a full term in office just to figure out
a solution. They should all be lined up and shot with balls of their own
poop.

66fourdoor wrote:
Bob,

You are willing and able and DO buy anything you need or want from the
corporations on one hand, you enjoy your pension checks, and spend
them as you like- yet you bash that same system every day. How would
you like to work until the day you dropped over dead ? I'd say you
have it pretty good, for someone with limited education and social
skills, and no political influence.

You "may" have had a good argument until you mentiond education and
social skills. I need not even post about YOUR education and social
skills as they have been on display for years and your simply calling
the kettle black at this point.

On 1 Dec 2005 14:04:01 -0800, "R. White"
wrote:


66fourdoor wrote:
Bob,

You are willing and able and DO buy anything you need or want from the
corporations on one hand, you enjoy your pension checks, and spend
them as you like- yet you bash that same system every day. How would
you like to work until the day you dropped over dead ? I'd say you
have it pretty good, for someone with limited education and social
skills, and no political influence.

You "may" have had a good argument until you mentiond education and
social skills. I need not even post about YOUR education and social
skills as they have been on display for years and your simply calling
the kettle black at this point. snip

More projection from a paranoid-delusional with a low IQ, Noodles will
try to use that description against anyone smarter/more socially
acceptable than himself. It's just a symptom of the mental disease he
has. Didn't even the chief of police for Butler Township call Noodles
"a nut?"

You "may" have had a good argument until you mentiond education and
social skills.
You have to wonder about our social skills when we are to be
found tapping out messages on a group dedicated and named after a long
defunct audio format. I have noticed we are not attracting the Guggenheims
or Vanderbilts. Not even any Kennedys.

On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:31:08 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote:

You "may" have had a good argument until you mentiond education and
social skills.
You have to wonder about our social skills when we are to be
found tapping out messages on a group dedicated and named after a long
defunct audio format. I have noticed we are not attracting the Guggenheims
or Vanderbilts. Not even any Kennedys. snip

Well, 8 track is the new "nut" format, as you can surely tell! :Þ

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