By Mr. Curmudgeon
California, long considered a political laboratory for the rest of the country, is witnessing its state Republican Party attempt to find its lost soul. Like most states that trend heavily Democratic, Republicans in the Golden State traditionally employ a knee-jerk strategy to win votes from members of the opposition party – pose as Democrats. Take Arnold Schwarzenegger…please. But we now find ourselves in an economic depression (though the media and politicians refer to it as a recession), and voters, even perpetually comatose Californians, find themselves questioning the bipartisan spending and taxing ways of their elected officials. A case in point is California’s three-term U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. A January Rasmussen poll found Tea Party-supported conservative Republican Charles S. DeVore trailing close behind Boxer 47% to 42%. And the California senate race may prove pivotal in the Republican plan to take control of the U.S. Senate.
“It is hard to see how Republicans can win control of the Senate without toppling Mrs. Boxer,” reports the New York Times. “Democrats control the chamber 59 to 41; Republicans need 10 seats to take control, since in an evenly divided Senate, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. would cast the tie-breaking vote in favor of the Democrats.” There can be no better reason for unseating Boxer than preventing the bumbling Biden from having such power. Californians, the near-term survival of the nation is in your hands.
In a state whose mightiest politician-buying public employee union represents prison guards, it’s time Californians stage a political prison riot. You have nothing to lose but your chains.
