Moderates try to push GOP toward center in Calif.

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(Los Angeles) Conservative Republicans flexed their newfound muscle in Capitol Hill’s chaotic debt showdown, but in left-leaning California, moderates are trying to push the party toward the center on immigration, guns and gay rights as the 2012 elections come into view.
The latest friction in a long tussle between conservatives and centrists in California comes as leaders search for ways to make their candidates more competitive in a state where Democrats control the Legislature, hold every statewide office and enjoy a growing registration advantage. It also mirrors tensions playing out nationally as presidential contenders maneuver in advance of next year’s primary season.

A proposed rewrite of the California Republican Party platform retreats from opposition to same-sex adoption, domestic partner benefits and child custody, avoids any mention of overturning Roe v. Wade and drops a demand to end virtually all federal and state benefits for illegal immigrants.

Alarmed conservatives say the party’s core principles are under assault.

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1. I would not give it too much credence

In the world of media created hysteria, the hungry writers at the AP can imagine just about as much fantasy pap as all of the other for-profit sources of public misinformation. It reminds me of a lyric that I once heard from a song of Bob Dylan: You know, a lot of people don't have much food on their table, but they've got a lot of forks....and knives. And they gotta cut something.

I am unfortunately living in California's eastern Madera County (Yosemite), in the land of Radnovich and greed. I can tell you that the right wing neo-nazis and the tea baggers living here are still very much polluting the feeble minds of the non-thinking public. And they have been very successful at doing it, as well. I see no evidence of a softening of the bile that they spew from their putrid mouths. And I can say that without fear of ever being labeled a cynic.