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Originally posted by sgtclub
A couple of points here. First, there really isn't a viable GOP presence in CA. Organizationally, the party has been completely decimated. Arnold is an anomoly, but I don't think he has coatails. Northern CA has always been a DEM stronghold. The GOP relinquished Southern California in the mid-1990s, and given demographics in LA, it is not coming back anytime soon. The only region that the GOP controls is Central CA, but that is a very small part of the population.
Second, while I use to believe that those seeking to overturn Roe just wanted to leave the decision to the states, it's hard to believe that's the case given the current landscape. It appears to me that the right wants to use the courts the same way that the left has used them for years, so framing the issue as you suggest is really disingenuous.
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With respect to the first, I submit that you've (not You and Spanky, but the overall group that includes you guys) allowed yourselves to get painted into a corner.
Well, maybe not painted, but the group accepted the characterizations made by the left. As a result, we see leaders disavowing everything they personally don't like about the party, as if the characterizations are correct.
With respect to the second, I'm not really sure what you are talking about, but I assume you aren't suggesting that the Right is trying to get the Courts to ban abortion on a national level! Well, maybe somebody is, but not really the Right.
But you are talking about something else, right? Schiavo perhaps?
On another note regarding California Rs, is LA really gonna get rid of the R mayor rather than hire 2000 more police officers like Bratton requested? I can't believe there is even a serious debate about that out there, particularly with any of the recent former LA police chiefs serving as the mouthpiece of the opposition! Good thing for LA this story isn't getting wider national coverage, because it ain't making the population out there look too good.
