our establishment leadership were 1/10th as clear-thinking and effective as our EE (who, by the way was awarded New Media Person of the Year).

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And I totally agree with it. The big issue w/ health care right now is mammograms. Who is a better spokesperson for us on mammograms? And old white man, a Republican woman who has survived breast cancer, or a woman who has not had breast cancer?
I’ll go with the 2nd option.

But now you don’t. You have not made a case for why she is a bad candidate..

Sorry, but anyone who openly advocates regulation of the internet and censorship (Her “Wild West” remark) is someone that does not need to be in office.

Then Kalifornia will get what it deserves.

Soon, the only one’s left in Kalifornia will be wealthy democrats who don’t pay taxes anyway and the zero liability voter.

The democrats will fully expect to be bailed out by the feds.

That is where the real play is. Stopping the federal money that flows from the producers to the blood suckers.

at some point, a demand for change from the machine has to take hold. Picking your candidate is still YOUR option, but if you can pick one AND send a message demanding change from the top…how good is THAT?

The good ole boys inside the beltway aren’t listening…we have to get their attention SOMEHOW.

Erick,

DeVore has a great record on fiscal matters from his time in the assembly. DeVore stood up to the Republicans in the assembly who were more than happy to go along with tax increases by resigning his position as R Whip in February of this year. Yet that’s not what the R Primary is turning into a vote over.

If the primary turns into a race about out of control spending, good government, records of real compentancy in elected office and failed records of running a company, DeVore wins hands down. If the race is about who is the most socially conservative, DeVore might win the Primary and will loose the general…big time.

Knock any of the so called RINOS in the Senate all you want, but as a Californian I’ll take any of them over Babs any day. A Rick Santorum style social conservative will loose the general election in CA, because at best the people who vote in the CA general are indeed RINOS at best and liberal leaning and worst. To win the general election you have to run like Bob McDonnald did in VA, not pretending that you don’t have strong beliefs, but also not making them the focus of how you will govern.

I’m watching the race, want to vote for DeVore, but am also watching how he runs his primary bid. If he goes after Babs, goes after out of control spending, comes out swinging as military hawk, fiscal tight wad, do something about illegal aliens, he’s got my vote because he stands a good chance of winning the general election, making a statement about social issues, not so much. I want Babs gone, that’s all I care about.

and the primary is still next year. As a guy who watched his sister fight for her life and after multiple, massive Surgeries and long Chemo, I assure you that Carly Fiorina’s message has a gut appeal to women, that men, unless they have seen this disease up close and personal, just will not feel.

This is a wonderful piece of political oratory and should get the widest dissemination as possible. At least she is fighting Obamacare, unlike our Republican Senators who are just amending a crap sandwich.

It is speeches like this that win hearts and minds… I say Run with it…

http://www.bloggybayou.com/2009/12/carly-fiorina-cancer-survivor-speaks.html

I did.

Liberal “moderacy” still rules the GOP. This has to change… at all costs.
Fiorina is moderate at best and she will vote moderate.

If GOP moderacy continues to pervade the health care proceedings and other current issues, it will make it near impossible to correct…….even if the GOP wins back majorities 2010.

The line in the sand with current issues and proposed candidates needs to start NOW! No moderate actions or candidates should be tolerated at all…..at any cost.

Conservatism, by the way, doesnt mean what the ATTACKERS of it say it means. Conservatism means integrity and responsibiliy applied to basic Constitutional principles. I dont need to say that to the people on this blog. I could probably learn from you.

The fight part though probably needs to be repeated, and I thank Erick for his stand in that fight.

Moderacy in the GOP needs to be ended TODAY…at ALL costs,.. no matter what. And…all the Huffington” kinds of attacks on that stand should be completely ignored….especially by the GOP Congress at their cocktail parties.

Great job Erick. Thanks for your stand. Don’t stop.

I really look at California as a way to tie up a lot of valuable resources that could be used to fight on better battlefields.

Boxer has never been likable, yet she wins comfortably every election because California is a liberal state. I really don’t see Californians changing their voting habits because Boxer was rude to a General during a hearing. California’s budget disaster really has nothing to do with a federal officeholder like Boxer, so I really don’t see that taint rubbing off on her either.

Whichever Republican wins the primary, the odds are long they beat Barbara Boxer. I know in the past Erick has said that some states conservatives simply can’t win, and that we need moderate Republicans. I certainly prefer DeVore since he’s the better conservative, but I look at this race as “Which Republican is Barbara Boxer most afraid of?”

If conservatives are looking for Senate candidates to donate to, there are much better upcoming Senate races that Republicans have a much better chance at winning, like Arkansas, North Dakota, Colorado, Missouri, Nevada etc, and where the dollar goes a lot further. Resources are finite, and to really mount a serious campaign in California to unseat an incumbent, you really need about $30 million to spend statewide. That’s enough to win several Senate seats in cheaper states that are more receptive to Republicans.

to him and Rubio and Toomey and Michael Williams. These are ALL candidates the NRSC would NOT support which says all I need to know beyond their commitments to me personally. These gentlemen are STRONG Conservatives and they have earned and deserve our money and our GRASSROOTS boots on the ground and calls on the phone to ensure a VICTORY for Conservatism!

2010 to me is just as much a call of rejection to the left as it is to “moderate” Republicans who have moved this country left. There is a dime’s worth of difference between the two as Hannity likes to say however as I like to say if WE can get the Conservative on the ballot then there will be a WHOLE DOLLAR’s worth of difference

Erick, has NRSC officially pulled back its endorsement of Crist? I know they pivoted after NY23 and said they wouldn’t endorse from this point forward, but did they ever stop backing the Crists and the Fiorinas that they were already behind?

Stopping the bleeding isn’t enough. We have to remove the poison too.

The strategizing and debating about Devore vs. Fiorina is interesting, but my choices are crystal clear and with no gray areas.

1. Send money to Chuck DeVore’s primary campaign.

2. Send money to whichever candidate opposes Babs “Call me Senator” Boxer in the general election, even if a write-in campaign managed to allow a Labrador Retriever named Beau to win the Republican primary.

Look at what is stepping up to the plate for the Republicans, H.P. Carly or Let me kiss Barry’s behind Crist or EBay Meg….is it any wonder the actual Grassroots voters are not behind these Elites. I have called my Senator (Cornyn) and tried to let his staff know Grassroots will not support such candidates as we see them as no better than the likes of “Immigration Reform with Amnesty” McCain, Kyl, Graham…I will be more likely to support a Dem like Chet Edwards (at least he voted NO on health care, unlike 1 Repub. LA congressman) before I will support another “moderate” Republican that thinks abortion, gun control, health care and energy taxes are good for the World/Planet.
It seems these Corp Execs, who have done for some of their previous Corps what they intend to do for America, ie borrow and spend it into the ground, are hunting a place to land and either party is ok as long as they get OPM (other peoples money) to do it–afterall that is what they did as Execs-used other peoples money while cutting thousands of working class people jobs so they could take their millions home.

From my comment at Hotair after watching the video. You can see how uncomfortable and “managed” she looks-

The trouble here is that she has too many other “moderate” positions (of the ones we can find)and follows McCain’s theory of shooting himself in the foot to make the left happy. She is two people- a good successful person with a bright mind and a poor politician- with limited charisma and a bad policy mindset along with a weak self-promotion problem. You can see she can probably run a board room in a heartbeat, but can’t stand in front of thousands of people and ask for their vote. Two different talents.

The second one gets you elected.

1. Get tips from McClintock.

2. Study the Prop 8 map.

3. Use the Bill Simon strategy in Central California.

4. Come close to winning LA. I don’t know how this can be done. Maybe get tips from Riordan.

5. Find a way to win hispanic voters. This is crucial.

6. Have a huge political presence at the universities, especially Berkeley. Students are more easily swayed and one can create enough doubt in their minds to convince them just to stay home.

7. Tie together the issues of jobs, water, and healthcare into one easy-to-understand message. The delta smelt should be the official logo of the campaign — extreme liberalism is more concerned about the health of a small fish than the health of the economy or even the health of people. This is a message that will resonate with the average nonpolitical person on the street.

My fear is that DeVore is virtually unknown outside of Orange County. I doubt he can win this race, but just being in this one would raise his profile for future races.

and there’s no way in h*ll I’ll vote for Fiorna,….her “HP shenanigans” should be enough to scare off conservatives,..not to mention her other skeletons in the closet.

DeVore is the man for me and he can win.

Conservatives need to stop voting for RINOs or the gop will never change.

It seems to me that DeVore is the perfect place for the G.O.P. to put its money. A win in California would be HUGE. I’m willing to bet that Barbara not that strong.