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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
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.
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You really don't know what you are talking about. The shift in CA is primarily based on demographics. Hispanics make up a huge plurality of CA and will be a majority by the end of the decade. The GOP historically has done a very poor job appealing to minorities, especially blacks and hispanics. Coupled that with Wilson's stance on Prop 189 (which I agreed with) and you have a recipe for perpetual minority party status, until the GOP makes a real effort to court the hispanic vote.
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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?
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What is the Right you keep talking about? The anti-abortion crowd is taking the fight in stages. Why do you think the pro-choice crowd puts up such a fight to parental notification? The first step is to overturn Roe. After that is accomplished I am confident that there will be a movement to federalize the issue in the other direction. The GOP no longer stands for localization of social issues. Oh, and by the way, the fucking hypocritical non-cultural conservatives will remain silent on the issue.
