While stunned Republicans survey the demise of “Reaganism” on the national scene, Renegade Republican comments on California’s Assembly 15 race and says Abram Wilson must win, or Bay Area Republicans face extinction. ~ed.
The Democrats are rallying for the final crushing defeat of the GOP in the Bay Area. Obama is surging in Contra Costa County and it looks like he is sweeping all of his fellow Democrats with him. Down ticket Abram Wilson is fighting for his life with massive cash injections from the California Republican Party, to hold off Buchanan who is the best funded Democratic candidate to ever compete for this seat. In the other big race the 11th Congressional District Dean Andal is a lost cause. Terrible fundraising and being left hanging out to dry by the Republican National Congressional Committee who has canceled funding for all the folks they recruited to run for office in 2008. Instead the RNCC decided to fund the incumbent House Republicans who ran the control of Congress into the ground.
In 1996 Bill Clinton swept Contra Costa County in the wake of the miserable Bob Dole Campaign and left a lot of carnage in his wake. Congressman Bill Baker was crushed in defeat. Lynne leach (running for the 15th State Assembly) and Richard Rainey (running for the 7th State Senate) narrowly won by a few hundred votes. In a normal election all would have won comfortably.
What Republicans in Contra Costa are facing is 1996 on a nuclear scale. The terrible McCain-Palin campaign will never gain traction in the San Francisco Bay area. The Democrats are coming to take the 15th Assembly District. Don’t think for a minute that they were not hoisting piñatas of all the old time Tri Valley Republicans who tormented them into defeat all of these years.
I don’t care what my conservative friends say Buchanan is a very attractive candidate with deep roots in the Tri Valley. She will galvanize moderate Republicans and Liberals into new Buchanan brigades. If elected she will be there for six years and her seat will be jerry-mandered in 2010 into a safe seat for the democrats!
If you are a Republican failure is not an option. It is time to make a last stand here in the 15th Assembly District. Ground zero if you will. Yes Wilson is a moderate Republican but as any war veteran will tell you, “there are no atheists in a fox hole.” If he can win he will have a great future. Maybe he could be leader of the Republican caucus. God knows they could use some better leadership.
The time for political triage has arrived. Republicans need to abandon the failed campaign of Dean Andal. Andal the “chosen one” by the brain dead RNCC is going to be slaughtered by Jerry McNerney. Republicans need to face facts It is going to happen. The only hope is to come out and support Mayor Abram Wilson!
This is it. The time has come to Ride to the sound of the guns!!
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And echoing the ridiculous mistruths and silliness that have hurt John McCain’s campaign, Wilson has launched his own robo-’hate’ calls to households in Contra Costa county.
Got one of these calls today… it was filled with so much crap, I don’t think I could vote for Wilson even if I did think he was the best candidate for the job