Reply #42: whats wrong with Californians?

[Ardee]

The same thing that was wrong with the national electorate in the '00 elections I would imagine. I just knew that, after the victory for the dark side, if that is what it was, that many here at apology central would fly off the handle and blame everybody and everything in an effort to avoid the obvious.

Yeah, it was the rigged voting machines, yeah it was the media that failed to cover the democratic candidates, yeah ( well that was correct insofar as Camejo was concerned, only the San Jose Mercury News covered him), yeah it was the semiliterate voters , what were they thinking?

If, in a bastion of liberalism, a solidly democratic state like California the democrats could screw the pooch so very badly, if union members, latinos, women all deserted the democratic candidates (and there were, after all, two democrats in this race) in support of a man who has never held elective office, refused to debate, refused to speak in anything but generalities and won by smashing cars with a wrecking ball then some democrat somewhere has got to stop the sniveling and realise that the people are simply fed up with the same old verbiage, the same old empty promises, the same lukewarm bullshit!

This is far from the end of the world, Skippy, it is the end of the "it was all Naders fault" illusion. Arnold is, after all , a moderate republican, at least his indications are as he supports a womans right to choose, though not her right to choose to have him leave her alone, he supports gay rights, is moderate on gun control and ,best of all, has a solidly democratic legislature in Sacramento to stop any foolishness.

>http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=518


This was such a devastating defeat for the democrats that cooler heads than those here at DU will long ponder these results. If ,after this debacle, the party does not do a large amount of self evaluation then they can all become completely irrelevent and out of touch.