California Conservative Republicans?

Brenden Miniter has some interesting things to say about making politics local...if you want to win nationally. Being from the California Coast, I've about given up bothering with this place. What's the point in fighting that tide? But, too many Republicans here are doing just that...effectively ceding the territory to the enemy without a fight. (In other words...acting just like the Democrats we despise!) Too many Republicans here try to present themselves as moderates, rather than Conservatives, afraid of the inevitable criticism. And maybe that's actually the problem. Nobody here ever hears the voice of Conservatism as it relates, or could relate to California. No one speaks to or represents us Conservatives at all, there is a total vacuum of Conservatism on the local level. Partly it's the constant battle of being called racists and bigots and children haters and homophobes and xenophobes, being personally attacked, threatened, the victim of distortion and bias from the media, and...that's just for identifying yourself as a Republican!

Maybe it is time for true Conservatives to take over the Party in California. The current California Republican Party is a sissified, flabby, moderate mess. Time to bring on the adults. And get the liberal Kennedys out of the governor's mansion.

"But what Mr. Ehrlich is arguing for is a forceful party that competes in all regions of the country by focusing on core conservative principles--tax cuts, low regulation, marriage and the like--to rebuild in Michigan, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and even New England. The idea of a need for a regionally balanced party isn't new, of course. Virginian Thomas Jefferson understood the political necessity in running with New Yorker Aaron Burr to unseat, in a close election, incumbent president and Massachusetts native John Adams in 1800. The electoral math today is similarly demanding. President Bush prevailed in 2000 and 2004 by winning Ohio and Florida. Unless Republicans make inroads in other Northern states, in 2008 Hillary Clinton could win the presidency by losing both Ohio and Florida and carrying instead Colorado, Iowa and Missouri."