When California falls into the Pacific ocean, you’ll come crawling back to us “Yankees.” That’ll show you. Hrumph!

n/t

How’s it go? Something about how I don’t wanna be reconstructed?

IJB

How about CA Republicans standing for something, anything, besides social issues like sex with the dead, who can legally go into a tanning bed, or even for that matter the CA Republican party platform planks that call for ending same sex partner benefits, child custody and adoption by gay couples. CA’s population is not all that socially conservative and the Republican party trying to pretend the state population is, by focusing on these sorts of issues instead of pocketbook issues has lead to the demise of the party outside of inland areas in my view.

I’ll take a return to Fiscal conservatism, law and order including dealing with illegal alien invasions over what the CA party has been focused on sense Pete Wilson left office.

As to who the enemy is, Pogo said it best….”We have met the enemy and they is Us”.

Like selling the idea of fiscal conservatism for instance.

How about selling the idea of reduced regulations on business – I understand that in order to start a manufacturing business in LA that as many as nine separate environmental quality boards must sign off on your business plan in order to open your doors.

How about working to establish a solid charter school program that will allow kids to opt out of the current disaster that is the CA public schools system.

How about taking on the state employee unions that have the state, cities/towns and counties by the short hairs.

How about addressing, at the local level – cities/towns and county level – the soon to explode fiscal time bomb called underfunded employee pensions. That’s a bomb that’s going to make the current $42B problem look like the good ole days because cities/counties get their money, by and large, from property taxes and thanks to Jarvis they can’t raise their property taxes over 1%. And, in case you haven’t noticed, CA property values are about 50% of what they were two years ago and you can expect them to drop another 15%+ in the next couple of years.

How about forgetting about social issues for a while. I’m part of the religious right your mother probably warned you about, but I also believe in winning by incrementalism and you’re not going to sell the electorate on banning abortion in the current political climate in CA. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a gay marriage amendment to the state constitution pass next time around. I’m not saying that CA Republicans should never address socially conservative concerns, I am saying that they have be a second priority. Fix the fundamental problems that are killing the state – fiscal irresponsibility, complicity with unions and general overreach of government – and then you can take on social issues.

And finally, I have absolutely no confidence that …every Republican office holder (outside of Arnold) knows the Democrats are the enemy. If you actually KNEW that you’d have been acting like it. It’s the same problem on the National stage. Republicans are driven to project “good motives” onto Democrats and they steadfastly refuse to admit, even among themselves, that Democrats are destroying the nation (or in your case the State) in the pure, raw pursuit of being able to wield political power over every institution and individual in the country (State). If you think it’s war act like it damn it.

Neil,

The Republican base in CA can’t even get parental notification passed, what makes you think Roe being overturned and abortion being passed back to the state would change politics. The Republican party would still be irrelevant, they don’t stand for anything.

By the way, I’ve voted for every incremental abortion initiative that has come down the pike, because the changes are just that incremental, and yet every initiative on abortion still keeps failing.

Seemed appropriate to the times. First read it when I was living in a camper trailer with no hookups in Valdez, Alaska in ’76 or ’77. Making more money than any of us had any idea what to do with – even after sending mama’s share home – and nothing to spend it on but booze, drugs, and hookers. So, on a visit home to Anchorage I picked up several books that I “should” have read, Atlas Shrugged among them, to try to keep myself off the streets and out of the pool halls.

I’m only about a hundred pages into it and my overwhelming impression is that it would be the most remarkable young person who would make it through 25 pages these days. You simply have to know too much to comprehend much of it and you have to have an attention span that was formed before non-stop television and video games.

usually these disputes go to arbitration or to a labor board and anything that goes to court is just a review of that decision.