I realize I am not the smartest political strategist around, but I have a question? Why, in a year where conservative issues are transcendant, conservative activists are energized, and conservative voters just can’t wait to vote, would a candidate run around the state trying to prove she is not a conservative? Do you think there is a reason why Meg Whitman seems to be falling apart, and Carly Fiorina is on the rise? Wouldn’t it be an interesting commentary on the "traditional" wisdom of the political intelligentsia in California if the conservative Fiorina won, and the "moderate" Whitman lost?

I want to make sure I am not misunderstood. I don’t want Whitman to lose. I have already voted, and I voted for her. But, to be honest, I was in the voting booth, and thought twice about it. And trust me, if I thought twice about it, there are a lot of conservatives who will just walk away. In fact, it is my opinion that Whitman can still win this, but it will be because conservatives like Fiorina and Senator Mimi Walters are in the race, so conservatives will turn out to vote for them, and then… Read More

I am currently enjoying a mail piece called the Democrat[ic] Election Education Guide. [Italics and brackets by me]by the Election Education Guide folks of Burbank, a slate mailer group. It has a picture of an owl on the address side,the mailer isa real hoot.

It features every statewide candidate and proposition endorsed by the CA Dem Party, Firefighters, Nurses, Teachers and College Professors. [I love that lastpart, are Dem voters really turned on to what college professors think politically? really? funny!]

It has the entire slate of statewide Dems from US Senatethru that ‘non-partisan’ Superintendant of Public Indoctri…er Instruction. The laser printed portion that is specific to our area has the Dem’s listed for BOE, Congress, State Senate,[awww, they didn’tpick me] and another funny, for Assembly, "No Democrat in your district"on the ballot. Yeah, I guess it isn’t an unbiased mail piece butan "Education Guide" to getDems turned out. OK,fair… Read More

In no particular order: I’m gratified the SF Giants beat the Phillies tonight, especially because as a result I won a 6-1 bet placed legally at the sports book at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas four months ago, when tonight reliever Brian Wilson earned a questionable called strike three to get the save tonight and win the pennant. I’ll use the $600 I won right after the election to entertain conservative cronies at The Foundation Room in Vegas at an after election dinner. Our Western CPAC was a huge success last weekend in Newport Beach, and main speaker, pollster Scott Rasmussen, got us two days of national press on The Drudge Report with his prediction of over 50 Republican pickups in the Congress. Thanks to Newport Beach Councilman Keith Curry for stopping by, who joined six Congressmen – five from Ca and one from Utah! Special thanks to Jon Fleischman and my long time friend Congressman Darrell Issa for much suport and a great speech from Issa! I enjoyed a 12 minute shot on the KTTV Channel 11 news last Saturday night after Western CPAC, debating liberal Jamie Court on the Insurance Commissioner election. So cool to level liberals.… Read More

David Zucker, the man behind such hits as “Airplane” and the “Naked Gun” series, is using his comedic genius to take on Barbara “Don’t call me ma’am” Boxer in a hilarious new video. On Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood web site today, Zucker explained that after watching Boxer’s arrogant dressing-down of Brigadier GeneralWalsh during a committee hearing last year, he was mortified that he had ever supported Boxer. Read the rest of his blog here.

It’s refreshing and encouraging to see so many talented individuals in Hollywood are waking up to the truth and embracing conservative principles—despite potential backlash among their peers. Thanks to the boldness of people like Andrew Breitbart and David Zucker, more and more of those in the entertainment industry can openly share their political beliefs.

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Few people that I know have not seen the movie Groundhog Day, where comedian Bill Murray plays a television news weatherman who keeps re-living the same day (starting at 6 a.m.) over, and over, and over again. It would appear that San Diego City voters are being treated to their own real-life version of Groundhog day – this one not so funny.

In early 2009, politicians in Sacramento cooked up in a back room Proposition 1A. This measure contained some purported reforms (the credibility of which was debunked) in exchange for California voters approving a two year extension of car, sales and income taxes to the tune of over $14 billion dollars. On May 19 of last year, the voters sent a very loud and clear message to the political class by rejected Proposition 1A, and not by a small margin. In the final tally 65.4% of voters – nearly two-thirds – voted no. By any measure, a landslide loss for the measure. Voters were simply not willing to tax themselves more to… Read More

Wow–a hard-hitting ad from Citizens Against Government Waste. Worth watching.

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One of the most maddening set of ads this political campaign season are the ads the Democrats are running against Mike Villines and Abel Maldonado.Both men were key Republican votes for last year’s budget in which Governor Schwarzenegger and the Democratic legislative leaders choose to raise taxes rather than make tough spending cuts.According to an email that I just received from Democrat Dave Jones (who clearly purchased or was given a GOP list), Villines raised our taxes $14 billion. Republican voters don’t need Dave Jones and Gavin Newsom to tell us what Villines and Maldonado did last year.We know. What we need Dave Jones and Gavin Newsom to tell us is the truth:that the Governor and their party supported and encouraged Villines and Maldonado to change their positions and cast that vote.I know that no one held a gun to their head but the pressure “to do the right thing and pass a budget” was great.And I’m … Read More

This is the kind of data that moves political giving. A win for Carly Fiorina over Barbara Boxer in California is not just a pickup of one seat in the United States Senate (possibly the win that gives a majority to the GOP) — but the symbolism of such a win, going into the 2012 elections, would be staggering. Especially when you consider that the Democrats have pulled out all of the stops for Boxer, including campaign events featuring both the President and Vice President.

If you have any doubt about the importance of a final and hard push for Fiorina in the closing days of this campaign season, read this memo from well respected pollster Dave Sackett of the Tarrance Group. Then recommit to doing as much as you can, whether through financial giving or grassroots activism… MEMORANDUM DATE: OCTOBER 20, 2010 TO: CARLY FOR… Read More