11 responses to “Are the Primaries Over Yet?”

1. 

   Steve Enos

   16 June 2010

   George, what’s your take on Placer County and the D vs. R supervisor race that took place? The established R spent a ton of developer money and lost.
   Read the story about the growing divisions in the Placer County R and conservative movement that is in today’s Auburn Journal. Interesting stuff. I think it is also a bit reflective of what is going on here in Nevada County too. Example… hard right Tea Party-CABPRO clan attacks Nate Beason and Ted owens for supporting Greg Diaz. Barry “Tea Party” Pruett was sent packing and was sent packing by a landslide, a landslide that clearly included a whole lot of R votes.
   I predict a shake up in the Nevada County Republican Centeral Committee and R’s here in Nevada County as the extreme right folks get reeled or cut adrift by some R’s based in Sacramento. Call them RINO’s, attack each other as it works for me and gives me more time to spend at the river and at the range. (note: Miwal ammo and The Range holds their once a year, Fathersday open house and sale is this Saturday and Sunday. Great folks, good deals, fair prices).
   Having the conservatives and R’s divide themselves into two camps and then having them fight each other and use the limited resources to do so only helps the other side. I hope this internal war continues and the RINO hunting keeps up. I hope folks keep sending money to the TP and not the RNC folks. Please do not study history and keep screaming about the need to take “your country” back. As recent polls show disapproval of the Tea Party has grown on a national level.
   Please tell Arizona to keep up their latest effort to ignore and rewrite the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Please send messages of support to Sen. Russell Pearce in AZ. Sen. Pearce says the 14th Amendment is only ment to protect “black people”… those are his own words. Sen. Pearce says the words “all person’s” in the 14th really doesn’t mean all persons… just black people. “All people” seems real clear, as in all people, not just “black people” as Sen. Pearce states.
   Yes George, there are major issues with immigration and illigal immigration but spinning up a new version of the 14th Amendment on your own isn’t the right plan if one really wants reform and not a good plan if one wants to be viewed as rational. Plus someone needs to review the demograpics and trends if one has any interest in having effect in the future.

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2. 

   George Rebane

   16 June 2010

   Steve, this is another one of your joyful recountings of the resilience and continued rise of the leftwing and the Dems. Since I don’t see the expected gnashing of teeth and rending of garment in the ranks of the Tea Parties or the Repubs, it seems that we have another one of those happy ‘both sides win’ situations in the works.
   If we posit that your reports are 100% accurate, is there some additional kernel of advice you would give to 1) the TPers and/or 2) the Republicans to cause them to shape up or, perhaps, to hasten their self-inflicted and inevitable doom? You describe them already doing everything to fulfill your fondest expectations, what more should/could they do?

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3. 

   Russ

   16 June 2010

   Steve,
   You need your own blog.
   Do you think that those TP people may have had something to do with the growing lead of Republicans over Democrats? According to Rasmussen Reports:
   Republican candidates now hold a 10-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, June 13. That ties the GOP’s largest ever lead, first reached in April, since it first edged ahead of the Democrats a year ago.
   A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate, while 36% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. A week ago, Republicans led 44% to 36%.
   While solid majorities of Democrats and Republicans support the candidates of their own party, the plurality (47%) of voters not affiliated with either major party prefer the Republican candidate, while 19% like the Democrat. These findings have remained fairly consistent for months now.
   Republicans have led in the Generic Ballot since mid-June 2009, but the results were much different during the last two election cycles. Democrats regularly had a large advantage in both 2006 and 2008.

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4. 

   Michael Anderson

   16 June 2010

   RL Crabb, where are you?? You need to adjudicate this train wreck. Pen and ink, please.
   My guess?
   * Where it’s red? It will stay red, maybe get redder.
   * Where it’s purple? It will be the battleground. Across the country, the aggregate will be almost a wash but some advantage to red.
   * Where it’s blue? Zzzzzzzzzzzz
   Obama is having a leadership crisis. If he doesn’t turn it around in the next 26 months he will be a one-term president. Carter all over again. That would be a national tragedy.
   M.

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5. 

   George Rebane

   17 June 2010

   Michael – I echo your call to Bob. On Obama’s tenure – were he to be a one-term president, whether Carter-like or not, I would offer that church bells would ring across the land.

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6. 

   Steve Enos

   17 June 2010

   George, what about what has been going on in Placer County? It’s going left and the R’s are losing ground and voters. I posted about this and after you read the following Sac Bee story it would be nice to see your thoughts on this change. It’s a lot like what is going on in Nevada County.
   The D’s will now have the majority of the Placer County BOS. Here in Nevada County Diaz mashed Tea Party Barry Pruett in a landslide with a higher R voter turn out than the D’s. And spencer got beat too.
   Even a former Reagan White House staffer says “They have so alienated the Republicans in Placer County that they ended up getting what they deserved”.
   Seems to support my thoughts about the shift in Nevada and Placer County and the negative results of the Tea Party, ultra-right RINO hunters on the R’s. This only helps the D’s. R voters are down in Placer County.
   http://www.sacbee.com/2010/06/17/2828435/placer-gop.html
   “Placer County GOP in rough shape after primary upset… Published Thursday, Jun. 17, 2010”:
   Here a few of the key parts of the story:
   “In Placer County last week, Republican primary voters did more than toss out incumbent political officeholders. They also rejected re-election bids by the controversial leaders of their Republican Central Committee. The group’s staunchly conservative chairman Tom Hudson and the group’s vice chairman, George Park, were among the leadership team members who lost bids to retain their seats during the June 8 primary. In total, six incumbents weren’t re-elected to the central committee”.
   “Placer County is one of the most GOP-heavy in the state – 48.5 percent of voters are registered Republicans – but the percentage is down from 2006, when the party had 52 percent of voters”.
   “I don’t think it was an accident at all,” said Doug Elmets, a former Reagan White House staffer turned local political consultant. “They have so alienated the Republicans in Placer County that they ended up getting what they deserved, which is an opportunity to go back to their day jobs. It was a clear message.”

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7. 

   Dixon Cruickshank

   17 June 2010

   May be close now, but give him a bit more time and he won’t be able to get elected dog catcher in a whore house with a pocket full of Jacksons.
   Although it doesn’t matter to him, he’s bigger than this job, he thinks he should be king of the world and this is only a stepping stone. The US is the only major power left, he needs to even the paying field and get us on par with the rest of the world so world governence can be implemented with him in charge. I’m not kidding, think about it for a minute before typing, just community organizing on a grander scale.
   Since he didn’t live here much, he appaears to have very little American Pride or nationalistic feelings, ie: skipping Arlington on Memorial Day and no mention at all of D-Day, probably the single most important day in modern western “Democratic” civilizations. Just say’in

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8. 

   Steve Enos

   17 June 2010

   George you posted:
   You… “don’t see the expected gnashing of teeth and rending of garment in the ranks of the Tea Parties or the Repubs, it seems that we have another one of those happy ‘both sides win’ situations in the works”.
   Start by looking in Placer County. You need to read the Sac Bee story about Placer County R’s, they are beating each other to death and it benefits the D’s. R voter reg in ultra conservative Placer has dropped. After this latest election The Placer BOS is now held by a majority of non R’s. That’s a big shift for Placer County.
   This is real change that is taking place and having the Tea Party and the ultra right attack their own and seeing the middle road conservatives-R’s in Placer push back against the Tea Party and ultra right R’s is telling. It’s like what has been going on here in Nevada Coutny and this will grow here too.
   The Tea Party-RINO hunters attacking Beason and Owens for supporting Diaz is very simular. Please keep up the good work and keep supporting the Tea Party and not the RNC. Keep RINO hunting!

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9. 

   Dixon Cruickshank

   17 June 2010

   Rome wasn’t built in a day
   The first step is the hardest, its admitting you have a problem, I guess you guys aren’t there yet – a few more IOU’s might do it as you guys are out of cash – again

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10. 

    George Rebane

    17 June 2010

    Worthy talking points Steve, and thank you for the link. I don’t know the longer history up here in the foothills, but parties out of power usually are subject to more infighting and chaos (at all levels) before a new order emerges. Also, as I have written more than once and included in my talks to the NC RCC, the Republican Party does not have a functional and resonating strategy for the early 21st century.
    In these (pre-Singularity) years of accelerating technology, more and more wealth is going to be created by fewer people who are more intelligent, educated, and industrious in finding their place in the sun. The rest of the workers will not be able to sell their labor competitively (to maintain their QoL) as we are already seeing today. This will require a level of wealth redistribution just to keep blood out of the gutters, and I believe that is a proper role of government. And I believe there are ways of doing it with minimum use of force, and threat to the geese that lay the golden eggs.
    The left and Dems have always promoted such resonant redistribution policies, and are now in hyper-drive on that front. If the Repubs don’t respond with their own redistribution plans, they are history. And right now, the Repubs don’t have a clue about this requirement for 21st century governance. They believe that simply quoting the traditional conservative shibboleths about liberty, capitalism, and free market economies will continue to serve them. I don’t believe they will.
    The socialist solutions embraced by the Dems are dysfunctional simply because they are unsustainable in any human society that seeks to live under some form of non-autocratic governance which can still generate discretionary wealth. History shows that autocracies cum tyrannies are very stable forms of government, and this is doubly so with the aid of state controlled technologies. (A destination where many of us believe Obama and cohort are taking us now.)
    I have spoken to Congressman Tom McClintock at length about this, but I don’t think that my point about the Republican strategy shortfall made an impression. The NC RCC is suffering an equivalent malaise and lack of direction as a political party. They seem to be waiting for some top down leadership.
    The Tea Party movement per se is not related to political parties, even though the majority of members may lean more to the right than left. I have explained this in previous posts. The separation of how TP members vote and their party affiliation is a difficult notion for those on the left. As a supporting member of the Tea Party Patriots I can vouch for this separation of a socio-political movement that is founded on set principles, and political parties fronting candidates and initiatives for the voters. Again, I have explained this difference in previous posts.
    In Nevada County the TPP membership is vibrant and growing. I am told that this is so across the country. I don’t know about the Tea Party Express or other TP factions. I, of course, believe the TP movement is a necessary and historical corrective to the rampant advance of collectivism that I observe being backed by the desperate, disadvantaged, and devious. I do believe that this cohort is growing, and being purposely grown in America by the left. The goal is nothing less than the promised “fundamental transformation” of the country into a form that scares the bejeezus out of most of us on the right.
    Steve, you and yours are definitely on the rise. And I don’t know what kind of rapprochement is possible if the country suffers the economic meltdown toward which it is now heading. In the past upon achieving power, the collectivists have usually marched those of us who opposed to the nearest wall or gulag. My life would then be a jump from the frying pan into the fire, for I would then join my relatives who were so dealt with by Stalin.

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11. 

    Steve Enos

    18 June 2010

    New numbers from the elections office… Lamphier now ahead by 204 votes. No way for Spencer to win.
    TERRY LAMPHIER 2,459 52.2%
    JOHN C. SPENCER 2,255 47.8%

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