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GOP WIMPS WITH CERVEZA MUSCLES
(Going after Boxer)
by H. Millard (c) 2003 -- Posted 10/20/03
With the election of Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California, some GOP strategists figure they now have a chance to knock liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer out of the senate seat she's held for twelve years. At least that's what one can take away from an article in the Lost Angeles Times on October 20.
Forgive me for being blunt, but these GOP strategists seem to be walking in front of a pane of glass and on the other side is Schwarzenegger. Fools that they are, they think they're walking in front of a mirror.
Unless the GOP elites get their heads straight and understand the real dynamics at work in the state and the nation, they'll flame out in a big way. It's as though these guys have had one too many cervezas and think they're stronger than they really are. Boxer is a formidable opponent. She's no Gray Davis. If the GOP takes her on with the usual nobodies who they seem to cough up like hairballs, she'll bitch slap the whole pansy lot of them and weaken the forces that got Schwarzenegger elected.
One of those mentioned in the TIMES' article, who wants to take on Boxer, is Assemblyman Tony Stickland of Moorpark. What the TIMES didn't mention is that Strickland voted FOR AB60--the bill to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Hasta la vista, Tony. You're a non-starter so don't waste your or our time in trying to unseat Boxer.
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And, get this. According to the TIMES, Strickland says he plans to go after Boxer for voting against President Bush's resolution to go to war in Iraq. Good grief! This just gives further evidence that Strickland is out of touch. Iraq is a loser for Strickland and it may also help knock Bush out of the Mayo Mansion.
Except for the usual war mongering neo-cons, the young Republican suits, and the Talk Show Calling Conservatives (TSCCs) most people in California and the nation aren't buying the Bush administration's line on the phony war in Iraq that is filling body bags with young working class Americans. And, as time goes on--and the election nears--even more Americans will come to understand that Bush and company have been misleading the American public. It hasn't been the blood of the elites that has been shed on desert sand thousands of miles away from the U.S. and it's not those in the foo foo class in D.C. that have been handed red, white, and blue pieces of cloth in exchange for the lives of sons and daughters. And, by the way, Strickland and Bush, where the hell are those weapons of mass destruction?
Another name mentioned by some GOP bigs to take on Boxer is that of Rosario Marin, former U.S. Treasurer and former mayor of Huntington Park. Now, in case you don't know this, Huntington Park is one of the most illegal alien infested cities in all of California. Senora Marin's Web site states it this way: "99% Hispanic". It was once a mostly white city, but the whites have been run out of town by brown illegal aliens. Marin is an immigrant from Mexico and one of those browns that the elite Bush family tries to surround themselves with to show that they're pro-Latino. Marin doesn't have a ghost of a chance to unseat Boxer.
Despite the recall election voter numbers showing that it was mainly white voters who booted Davis out of office and put Schwarzenegger in, the GOP phonies still think they can insult and disrespect white voters and pursue a brown policy and that the browns will rush in and put a GOP candidate in office so long as she or he is Latino. They're wrong. Forget Marin. We seem to already have passed the day when browns can be pandered to at the expense of whites.
What about Tom McClintock? He says he's not going to run for Boxer's seat but will try to win reelection to the State Senate. Given his stupid actions in the recall campaign, that's probably a good idea. And, of course, Tiny Tom even has problems in winning his own seat in the state senate. Instead of pulling out of the recall campaign, he seemed to want to try to be a spoiler and cause Schwarzenegger to lose. By staying in the race to the end, McClintock wasted a lot of political capital with Schwarzenegger and he may now find that Schwarzenegger may even the score by helping defeat McClintock.
McClintock, it seems, fell victim to his own press releases and the shrill but meaningless noise of the TSCCs. Showing that they're often louder than they are bright, some TSCCs were calling into their favorite conservative radio programs even on election day and saying that there was going to be a big upset and McClintock would win. Stupid. The problem with many of these folks is that they live in a very small universe of like minded people. After squeezing into a double wide for one of their rallies they figure that there must be a lot of them because they're so crowded. Then, they pump each other up about this or that, and figure they're going to win. And, of course, they lose.
So, what we seem to have in the GOP is some noisy losers at the elite end of things and some noisy losers at the trailer park end both trying to push candidates who most people won't vote for.
If the GOP wants to win against Boxer, they're going to have to bubble up someone who has the kind of appeal that both Schwarzenegger and Reagan have. But first, they have to understand exactly what that appeal is so they can know who has it and who doesn't. And, being out of touch, most of them don't have a clue about why Schwarzenegger or Reagan appealed to so many people of all political stripes.
What about comedian Dennis Miller, whose name some in the GOP are floating for a run against Boxer? It's too early to tell, but at the present time he seems to be mostly flippant rather than substantive. We'll have to wait to see if he has any ideas, and if he does, if those ideas redound with the public.
Here's what will lose in California: Pro-illegal alien positions and pro-Bush war positions. Anyone who is half-bright among the GOP bigs should realize this. The general problem for candidates is how to distance themselves from Bush's war while not appearing disloyal and how to capitalize on the anti-illegal alien sentiment without being painted as too extreme.
The specific problem in going after Boxer is to find things that make her look as bad and incompetent as Davis. So far, the GOP hasn't come up with anything against Boxer that gets the Schwarzenegger voters salivating as they did in the just past recall election. Until and unless they do, Boxer is a shoo in.
