re: #247 Dark_Falcon

I don’t see a Republican holding statewide office in California again until the party gets better media discipline. As long as reps like Steve King keep spouting off at inconvenient times, any Republicans in Cali are going to be fatally vulnerable to “Nice friends you got there” types of attacks.

A lot of folks told themselves there was no way that Republicans could get one of their own elected after they’d screwed the pooch so badly with Clinton’s impeachment. Then they told themselves 4 years later that there was no way that a Republican president whose war effort was going so poorly and whose economy was barely limping along could get reelected.

All it takes is finding an “Aw, shucks” Republican who can capitalize on the electorate’s ability to overlook the party’s very obvious problems when the guy in front of them looks like “one of us.”