And that’s I think Fiorina (and Whitman too) are good, solid candidates that are running in the right kind of environment to have a real shot at winning.

In Fiorina’s case, she’s clearly not a “movement conservative”, but she’s probably what I’d consider to be “moderate conservative”. IOW, she won’t be down-the-line for us, but she’ll be with us a lot more than she’s against us.

The only real open questions in CA are:

1) Will Fiorina have enough money to get her message out and stay competitive? (Money is the King of CA politics – either you have enough of it to compete, or you’re nothing…)

2) Will Obama’s favorability ratings in CA have fallen enough to make the state truly winnable for statewide GOP candidates?

If the answers are Yes, and Yes, then I’d say we have a real shot at both the SEN and the GOV race this year (as well as a number of downticket races as well!).

mbolyle1988

Carlie is our next CA Senator.

I wasn’t so sure of that for a while, but I think she is plugging along and doing a great job of contrasting a Republican small c conservative point of view on many of the issues that people who live in the state care about. Babs Boxer’s usual tools and tricks used in the past to attack R nominees who were way to the right on social issues than the majority of CA voters have been taken out, and now it’s down to talking to people about issues that matter. Water, jobs, wish she would weigh in on illegal immigration, bread and butter issues and a dialog about those issues. Babs has a poor record on those issues to run on, and now that she can’t play here usual cards, different game.

Babs is one nasty (rhymes with Witch), throw in that Carlie comes off nice and friendly and is fairly well funded and the gift that keeps giving, Obama foolishness is in the news all the time, Carlie going to keep her getting free media just pointing out the foolishness of Obama who is doing nothing for CA, no pork, not goodies, no nothing.

Carlie is going to be the next Senator from CA.

To a line of commenting that just shouldn’t happen here.

Carly won, and is our candidate. Let’s work to make sure she wins.

This is a conservative and Republican site.

The time to complain about Republican candidates is before the primary.

Move along.

Let’s put it this way mboyle1988: I’ll ban anyone who starts bashing Fiorina, period. Same for Whitman.