Joe's Random Ramblings

The Republican primaries for California governor have already become a mud fight.
Steve Poizner is obviously becoming really desperate.
In his trying to rally the Republican faithful, he is giving the Democrats a nice opening to win in November. His anti-immigrant TV spots are guaranteeing defeat in November, even if he would manage to win the Republican nomination. The last Republican to win in CA on an anti-immigrant platform was Pete Wilson in 1994, and that resulted in US citizens of Latino descent signing up in droves as voters, and vote anti-immigrants (like Bob Dornan) out of office and Latinos (like the Sanchez sisters) into office.

The other interesting thing is that his TV spots paint the current CA governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, as not really a Republican. "After Arnold, isn't it time to vote for a Republican"...
Of course, that points to the main reason why the Republicans will lose in November. They are a bunch of right-wing idiots who do not have the public behind them. Arnold only won because he didn't have to go through a Republican primary election (he ran in the Gray Davis recall election.) He would have never made it through a Republican primary in CA. He got elected because of his name recognition.
He is the closest Republicans will ever again get to have a foothold in CA...
Poizner would never win. Even Whitman, while she has somewhat more appeal to the center, is likely to lose, because people still associate her with eBay, and such eBay blunders as buying Skype.