If the GOP listens to this writer, we could be in trouble. Calpig...

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CaliforniaPeggy (113,908 posts)

If the GOP listens to this writer, we could be in trouble. Your thoughts on this op-ed?


By Brian O'Leary Bennett

For the first time in 24 years there's an open U.S. Senate seat in the state, and there's no viable GOP candid
California Republicans under Reagan led a national revolution. Now they must lead their own evolution.

Delegates to the California Republican Party state convention that begins Friday in Sacramento should be asking themselves just two questions: Why can't they find an electable U.S. Senate candidate and how do they revive a state party that's become irrelevant?

This state went from red to blue because the California GOP lost its Reaganesque compass and, alarmingly, a willingness to discern between moral absolutes and generational evolution. Ronald Reagan brilliantly never let himself be the captive or defender of the status quo or party orthodoxy. He embraced broad principles and found ways to solve problems without selling out.

Voters, popes, presidents and even some elders have evolved. The state party has not and seems to be perversely proud of it. Political parties are meant to win elections, not be martyrs to lost causes of bygone eras. Republicans need their own rhetoric of reliance


For the first time in 24 years there's an open U.S. Senate seat in California, and the party should be ashamed it has no viable candidates. The problem is “us” not “them.” What are some of the changes the state party needs to make to return California to a truly two-party state?

The brand: The California party would be smart to develop a playbook from many accomplished conservative governors. Four full months after a stunning rejection of the president's policies, the GOP as a whole has no defining principles or programs. A work in progress, they tell us. Many GOP governors are having remarkable success in blue states. But here in California, sections of the party platform read from the Dark Ages. The state GOP is squandering a historic opportunity to rebrand with voters who don't trust any party, most of all a GOP held hostage to itself.

The entire article at the link:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0226-bennett-how-to-revive-calif-gop-20150226-story.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026283323

[obumazombie]

Conservatives should never listed to libs.
There are so few exceptions to that rule it's not even worth mentioning.

[the county]

They are afraid it'll be a Condi v. Kamala (the far-left AG of the state), and Condi would prevail.

This state went from red to blue because the California GOP lost its Reaganesque compass

Massive illegal immigration is why.

[67 Rover]

They are afraid it'll be a Condi v. Kamala (the far-left AG of the state), and Condi would prevail.


Massive illegal immigration is why.

I guess lightning could strike for Condi after all Scott Brown did win "Teddy's seat" albeit briefly.

[SVPete]

This state went from red to blue because the California GOP lost its Reaganesque compass

Massive illegal immigration is why.

It's not either-or, but both. Starting at least in the Wilson Administration, Mo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oderate Rs have worked as hard or harder to keep conservative Rs out of office than they have to defeat Ds. I wish that were hyperbole!

Illegals voting has hurt the Rs as well, but CA Rs cannot, by themselves, change that.

CA Rs can stop their fratricide.

[98ZJUSMC]

Yada, yada, yah....the Republicans need to embrace teh Marxist.      How about, F*** you?  Deal?

This state went from red to blue because the California GOP lost its Reaganesque compass

     

Mo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oderate Rs have worked as hard or harder to keep conservative Rs out of office than they have to defeat Ds.

 

[DLR Pyro]

Massive illegal immigration is why.


It's not either-or, but both. Starting at least in the Wilson Administration, Mo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oderate Rs have worked as hard or harder to keep conservative Rs out of office than they have to defeat Ds. I wish that were hyperbole!

Illegals voting has hurt the Rs as well, but CA Rs cannot, by themselves, change that.

Illegals voting?  How can that be?  That would be illegal.

[obumazombie]

Illegals voting?  How can that be?  That would be illegal.

What's that you say ?
Illegals compound their violation of law by committing additional illegal acts ?
Unheard of.