Can CA GOP rise again by dropping attacks on gays & immigrants?

“The Field Poll of 672 likely voters found that 51% oppose Proposition 8, which would amend the state Constitution to define marriage as only between a man and woman. Forty-two percent of voters support the November ballot measure,” according to the L.A. Times.

Is it just me or do the Field Poll results toll the beginning of the end for the Talibani wing of the California Republican Party?

Perhaps the California Republican Party needs to take a page from David Cameron (pictured above), the head of the conservative Tory Party in England?  Cameron has brought his party back from the dead after “He launched a campaign to change the Tories’ image, ditching the archaic attitudes to race and sexuality that once made voting Conservative unthinkable for many Britons; he also expanded his party’s policies on poverty and social justice,” according to Economist Magazine.

Most British pundits now feel that Cameron will take out the unpopular current Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who succeeded Tony Blair as head of the New Labour Party, which is roughly the equivalent to America’s Democratic Party.

So what do the British conservatives stand for now?  “The Conservatives have plenty of fairly sensible policies, for example on family-friendly employment rules and education reform.”

The California Republican Party could likewise emerge from the ashes it its leaders would stop hating gays and immigrants and actually put together a platform that is relevant to the people of California, who are no doubt tired of the crooked Sacramento Democrats who are driving our state to bankruptcy even as they plan to raise our taxes.

If the CA GOP continues on its path to extinction, voting Republican will come to be unthinkable for almost all Californians.  What a waste of what was once a good political party.

Is the CA GOP already beyond salvation?  I don’t think so.  The Tories were dead in the water until Cameron came along.  The CA GOP similarly needs to ditch its current leaders and look elsewhere for a return to glory.

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