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“Not my circus,” it’s true, and also “not my monkeys.” But please lend an ear to a Democrat concern troll who really doesn’t want to live in a one-party state, but would like an honest opposition party that stands for small government, low taxes and regulation, personal freedom … and can balance off my own Party’s occasional excesses.
Anybody can see how and why the California GOP is going the way of the Whigs. A blind man could see it. I mean, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles could sit there, holding their hands over Jose Feliciano’s eyes, as he whispers his observations to Helen Keller who in turn could present it in a report to be delivered to the OC GOP by Marcel Marceau, and it would still be the same: as the California electorate becomes both more educated and browner, the California Republican ever more stubbornly embraces policies of ignorance and intolerance, quadrupling down on it when the King of Ignorance and Intolerance becomes US President.
Just about every Republican quoted in this story last week said the same thing – by ratcheting up the anti-immigrant fervor (beginning with 1994’s disastrous Prop 187) and now mindlessly embracing Trump, the Party has consigned itself to an ever-shrinking ghetto, culminating in the glory of losing every Orange County Congress seat. 
Only ONE Republican quoted in the article disagreed with that diagnosis (well, apart from rodeo clown Travis Allen) – the longtime California GOP bigwig Shawn Steel, husband and puppet master of ditzy Supervisor Michelle. Here’s old Shawn:
“…it’s not Trump” who lost Orange County dominance for the party. Steel lays the blame on millions of dollars in “dark money” raised by Democrats, who he said were aided by better organization and help from the tech industry in Silicon Valley. And — without any substantiation — Steel also claimed Democratic voter registration drives produced “borderline fraudulent turnout rates” in some key districts.
Right, the infamous Democrat Dark Money, and the NEVER-shown bogeyman of Democrat Voter Fraud. Just say George Soros and wetbacks, anything but look in the mirror. Why do you Republicans still give Shawn Steel the time of day?
“Honey, let’s go meet Donald at the airport!”
With a career in California Republican politics going back to defending the indefensible Prop 187, and an arguable high-career-point of spearheading the recall of Governor Gray Davis, Steel and his wife were the only major figures down here to literally embrace Trump, meeting him at LAX last time it rained, and then became the driving force behind OC Republicans’ revolt against Sanctuary. And how did that work for you?
I also give Shawn credit for losing the 48th district seat for his old, insane, senile best friend Dana Rohrabacher – plotting to have Crazy Dana hand over his seat to Michelle, thus driving the reasonable, patient Scott Baugh into revolt and schism. Left with the choice between Steel-Rohrabacher madness and an intelligent humane former Republican named Harley, the Orange Coast chose Harley by 7%, and there’s no going back in sight.
So are you Republicans going to keep listening to Shawn Steel and people like him? I wouldn’t if I were you. Just saying. And that includes his “supervisor” wife. Vern out.
The Democrats Dark Money???
The Republican US Supreme Court gave U.S…”Citizens United”..Okay you got a beating with your own club!
I can’t stand people who claim to be religious in one of the Abrahamic traditions but think that God was just kidding with that Commandment against bearing false witness.
*We love Shawn….Steel. He stopped taking our e-mail about three years ago. Guess we put his feet to the fire to much. Heck, we don’t know why people just tell us to skip a rope,
maybe because we seem to ask the wrong or the right questions?
We do have to say however, that Michelle is still taking our e-mails….which is nice!
“We do have to say however, that Michelle is still taking our e-mails….which is nice!”
Those e-mail strings must be something to read. Sort of like James Joyce on peyote.
And Shawn got tired of them? The nerve!
A young Samuel Beckett got work taking dictation from James Joyce in Paris. At one point, while Joyce was dictating Finnegans Wake off the top of his head, and Beckett was typing it out deep in concentration, someone knocked on the door and Joyce responded “Come in!” which Beckett thoughtlessly added it into the text. When Joyce later saw it, he laughed and said “Let’s accept chance as a collaborator!” and kept it in the book.
This is the funny part – Beckett was severely troubled by this and brooded over it for years.
*Time to do some Shooters….eh? Souza….is the preferred choice, we believe!
*You should hear my Stars and Stripes Forever … and I use the Milton Berle lyrics at the end (with my own twist)
Polyphemus would luv it.
*NOMAN POKED OUT MY EYE!
When you have poor candidates that do not appeal to the peasant voters, what do you expect. We are not sheep, we do not want or like the Special Interests that the RPOC represents.
The HDD High Density Developers do not live here let alone vote. Poseidon Resources is not from around here. Shopoff Development who wants to disrupt the community life style of SEHB does not live or vote around here. Yet these groups have a major voice in what happens within the RPOC.
Only blame yourselves and not us the voters as it was the RPOC that left the voters who are registered as Republicans. What do we peasant voters have in common with DND Do Nothing Dana and Build the Banning Bridge Harper.