CA 4th Congressional District Race highlights everything that has gone wrong with the Republican Party
One candidate for the 4th Congressional District seat being vacated by republican John T. Doolittle said to me “This is the dirtiest campaign I’ve ever seen.” That comment was an off the record moment so I will not name the candidate, but the comment was made in the context of talking about the tactics being employed by Doug Ose and the party apparatus. The target of the filth has been state senator Tom McClintock, previously targeted by the party for defeat in the Recall and then cold-cocked in his nearly successful run for Lt. Governor in 2006.
I don’t have to ask the democrats what they stand for; they are very clear on that point. The democrat party is one of socialism, expanding their cancerous culture of dependency, pandering to our enemies and betraying our allies. The democrat party believes that we are under-taxed, under-regulated and overly prosperous. Work and production of wealth is their enemy, while legions of wretched dependants is their goal. The United States holds no special place in the world for them other than to be the cause of all human ills, to which they and they alone hold the answer – namely economic slavery of the working class and stifling of opportunity and initiative.
Democrats seek power as the vehicle for the implementation of their ultimate goal which is nothing short of the destruction of the United States of America, while republicans seek power for…. well, who knows?
What has happened in California is the step by step instruction booklet for surrendering the process to the domestic enemies. When Melanie Morgan, Howard Kaloogian, Ted Costa and this author took action to remove the hapless Gray Davis from office via Recall we never in a million years expected that our biggest obstacle to reform would be the GOP itself.
Using the destructive and insipid reasoning that it was better to have a liberal democrat in the governor’s chair than a conservative republican they took every opportunity to undermine Tom McClintock as “unelectable” (presumably because he was running on principles, along with concrete solutions to our problems). They shoveled money at Arnold (who sported a small “r” for the occasion) and delivered to us the current mess that falls even deeper into the “I told you so” category than even I ever feared.
In 2006 the same crowd waited until mere weeks before the election, a point where Arnold was 16 points up in the polls, and then yanked hundreds of thousands of dollars that had been promised to down ticket republicans. That cost us at least one state wide office, Lt. Governor, a post for which guess who was running… right, McClintock.
Now in the CA 4th we have a choice again of real reform and real attempt at solutions – ta da, Tom McClintock again, versus replacing a machine politician with another machine politician, Doug Ose. Guess which candidate the party is gathering around. Yeah.
For all the lip service when it comes down to the brass tacks machine politicians cannot stomach a true reformer gaining power, at least not one who has a shot at being effective. Doolittle was number two at the trough when it came to swilling pork and that bought him a lot of friends… no, check that, it made a lot of political careers and pay checks dependant on him. With Doolittle gone more than one guy in Placer County is going to have to get a real job and earn a pay check like the rest of us, unless they replace him with somebody who can bring home the bacon like John T.
McClintock vows to stop the gravy train, the reaction to that from the party apparatus was predictable and they are pulling out all the stops to sink him. Issues? Naw, who needs issues when you can hammer him for not living in the district. By the way, Doug, what’s your address again?
I live in the 4th, I am a reformer, I am voting for Tom. Do I agree with everything he says? Nope. Am I still stung by what I saw as selling out to Arnold for a while? Yep. Do I trust the same people who brought us Arnold and the current massive state budget crisis (just the tip of Arnold’s iceberg), defended Doolittle and now avoid issue discussions like they were dirty needles while running Clintonian hit commercials and whispering campaigns against McClintock and reform? Are you insane?