"Too white, too right and too uptight"

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Ugly numbers for state GOP
ge Skelton
Capitol Journal
March 4, 2013

SACRAMENTO — "Too white, too right and too uptight," says a veteran political consultant. "That's why the Republican Party can't come back in California."

Strategist David Townsend is a Democrat, so that's the sort of comment you would expect from the likes of him.

But there were top Republicans at the party's state convention in Sacramento over the weekend making similar observations, in softer tones and absent the negativity. They realize that to survive, the California GOP must broaden its ethnic and ideological bases and be less rigid on social issues.

Karl Rove, former President George W. Bush's chief strategist, told a luncheon of about 500 delegates Saturday that the GOP needs to reflect the diversity of America. "If we do, we'll succeed."

U.S. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, California's highest-ranking Republican, told the Sacramento Press Club on Friday that the party "should embrace a little bit of libertarianism."

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[lpbk2713]

1. ... and nuttier than a fruit cake.

With some of the extreme positions they take and some of the outright ridiculous statements they
make how can a rational individual not conclude rethuglicans don't have both oars in the water?

[Cleita]

2. Kevin McCarthy, who thankfully is not my Congressman anymore, is not a very

bright person. The only reason he is in Congress is that the Democrats never run any strong Democrat against him and usually not at all because they think the district is too red. The few Democrats who have tried have not been given any help from the local Democratic Party. I don't know how many Republican asses he had to kiss to become the Whip, but if ever there was someone who really didn't earn that office, it's him. He used to be a Deli owner who found favor with retired Congressman Bill Thomas of that district. He ran virtually unopposed by either other Republicans in the primary and a very weak Democrat in the general election, who lost to him. I find him incompetent as a politician and I don't understand why anyone would ever listen to anything he says including other Republicans.

[trof]

8. Same here in Alabama.

My county (Baldwin) is so red we can't get anyone to run as a Democrat and the state party gives us no funding.
We're just written off.

[Cleita]

9. I really find it very wrong. It's like we don't have a choice.

That should be seen as not democratic and there should be a law about it.

[trof]

10. In Baldwin County we have NO choice, and very little in the rest of the state.

[tblue]

3. They can put lipstick on that pig.

But they've really burned some bridges, not to mix metaphors. Face it, they just have a product fewer people want, and we see through their lies now. Fox is in a downward spiral. They have no answers other than cuts and wars. How do you dress that up to look shiny and new? Citizens United failed. What they got left?

[Zoeisright]

4. Those assholes don't get it and never will.

Having some darker-skinned faces in your pictures is not reflecting the diversity of America, Turd Blossom. You will never ever reflect America because you are the party of old white cruel men.

[Lionessa]

5. Geez, I thought you'd been the fly on the wall at last night's date.

Oy, to be an old progressive lady in the dating scene. I'd hoped it'd be better in LA area but alas not yet.

[Cleita]

14. Ya know, LA is not a great place for women to date even when you are young.

There are more women than men and a bigger ratio of really pretty girls trying to become movie stars to compete against. The men have become spoiled and even the most mediocre of guys think they can date the hottest of women and often they do. One of my friends, who was really a stunner, once confided in me that she dated guys in LA that she wouldn't have back in her home town.

I haven't been there since I was fifty and I don't know what the more mature dating scene is like but somehow I imagine that it's pretty much the same.

[catbyte]

6. Softer tones except for that moran babbling about pregnancy & rape

They just can't help themselves even when they know it's killing them.

[talkingmime]

7. There's diversity in the GOP? Since when?

[bluestate10]

15. Blacks voted nearly 100% republican until the New Deal. Even after the New Deal, the

majority of Blacks voted republican. Nixon actually beat Kennedy among Blacks. The tide turned with Johnson, to the point where Blacks vote almost 100% for democrats. Republican leaders and mouth pieces don't seem to understand that their party can't attack Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Women, The Young via republican economic policies and win the votes of a majority of voters from those groups. As the angry, backward looking base of the republican party die off, the republican party will become less and less relevant and will be nothing more than a clustered party in parts of the South.

[talkingmime]

16. The GOP of 1960 when Nixon lost to Kennedy has no resemblance to the GOP of today.

Yes, the 1960 GOP was heading toward fascism, but it was nowhere near as close as it is now. I can't comprehend how anyone who isn't rich, white, old, and racist would even consider voting for GOP candidates. It just doesn't make sense.

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi on Babylon 5, failed Congressional candidate in 2000, former Merrill-Lynch

account executive, and current "reformed" former republican talk jock) coined that term a couple of years ago.

[Kingofalldems]

12. Rove--"If we lie good enough, we'll win."

[RB TexLa]

13. Democrat or not, it's an accurate assessment. If I were advising them in California I'd tell them you

have to tell the Tea Party "no, you'll get what we give you, don't like it vote for someone else. Oh that's right the only other people who can win are Democrats, humm what are you going to do?" And move to the center.

[meow2u3]

17. Katrina Vandenheuvel (sp?) put it this way

The Republican Party is "pale, male, and stale."