Comments on: How to break up California

By: CalWatchdog

CalWatchdog — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:00:40 +0000

It’s amusing that StevefromSacto keeps referring to the “Rabid Right” in California when there isn’t any Right here at all. It’s your state. Take it … please.

(To paraphrase the late, great Henny Youngman.)

— John Seiler

By: Hondo

Hondo — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:26:28 +0000

Stevefromsacto:
So are you saying the Democrats put forth a ‘reasonable’ candidates. The end result of 30 years of ‘reasonable’ democratic leadership is a state with a built in 10% unemployment rate, the worst in the nation when you look at its size. For gods sake, we can’t even beat North Dakota. The highest number of people on welfare and in poverty. The highest paid teachers resulting in being 48th in test scores.
By your reckoning, the Jets beat the Patriots this last weekend, too.
Hondo…..
Ps Tebow is god!

By: BGR

BGR — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:16:13 +0000

Who gets the nukes?

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:11:33 +0000

seesaw, you ARE SMUG and self serving 🙂

By: stevefromsacto

stevefromsacto — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:01:47 +0000

BTW, even Carl DeMaio, the Republican mayoral candidate from San Diego, said that he was done in by the hard-right political stance of the California Republican Party.

By: stevefromsacto

stevefromsacto — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:48:10 +0000

You keep losing elections because the voters who decide elections in California are not ideologues. The more Rabid Right candidates and parties become, the more irrelevant they become. It happened nationally, and it happened in California. Homophobic, anti-Hispanic, anti-government rants will not win elections here.

The Democrats have gained control in California because the Republicans have failed to put forward reasonable candidates who are willing to put blind partisanship aside to help solve our state’s problems. If you are a moderate voter in our state–the voters who ultimately decide elections–what choice do you have if the Republicans keep moving further and further to the right? You either hold your nose and vote Democratic or you stay home. That’s not rocket science.

By: SeeSaw

SeeSaw — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:17:42 +0000

I came from WY which is a small Red state, a state I love, by the way, and I was speaking mainly about population–not geographic size. Smug, self serving? I am just speaking on the basis of what I have observed of all the citizenry throughout the country throughout my life. I would never live in a state that I did not like or one in where I do not want to live. What keeps a hater like you in CA?

As far as my own politics go–I am closer to the center than I am to the left. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to spot extremism –I dislike it at either end of the ideological spectrum.

By: Dyspeptic

Dyspeptic — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:18:56 +0000

“In the small Red states, everyone has the same ideology and the same extreme political/social views.”

Boy, what a typically smug, self serving opinion. Which small Red states are you talking about? Most Red states are geographically large. Most of the small states are on the East Coast and tend to be ideologically uniform and distinctly left-liberal. I guess your definition of extreme is anyone who disagrees with you.

“Splitting up CA is a fairy tale, if you want to dream about it–it will never be more than that.”

Yes, Crazyfornia will remain a giant swirling vortex of political dysfunction and economic foolishness for the foreseeable future. Splitting it up is obviously a fantasy. I think John was just trying to illustrate the geographic distribution of the partisan divide in the state. I doubt he really believes the place will be broken up.

“CA has diversity of ideologies–thank god!”

Not in any functional sense it doesn’t. The “Progressive” ideology is clearly the only one that matters anymore in this State. If we had any real political diversity the Demogoguecrats wouldn’t have complete and unfettered control of the place. Being able to choose how far to the left you like your politics isn’t my idea of diversity.

By: RightCowLeftCoast

RightCowLeftCoast — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:05:20 +0000

As a resident of Chula Vista I must say it is a damn crying shame that Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties have turned Blue. We must have taken for granted our tenious hold of those counties, furthermore it doesn’t help that our fellow conservatives and right leaning libertarians are escaping for greener lands out of state.
It is still salvageable but when an openly gay, socially moderate, reform minded, fiscal conservative cannot win in San Diego it is definitely an uphill battle!

By: SeeSaw

SeeSaw — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:36:44 +0000

In the small Red states, everyone has the same ideology and the same extreme political/social views. Splitting up CA is a fairy tale, if you want to dream about it–it will never be more than that. CA has diversity of ideologies–thank god! And, best of all–it is magnificent in landscape–and we are going to keep it all in one piece!