California Republicans go gaga for Trump

[DonViejo]

The state's withered GOP base loves the president, even if he drags down their House incumbents.

By DAVID SIDERS and CARLA MARINUCCI 10/22/2017 06:58 AM EDT

ANAHEIM, Calif. — His former chief strategist pillories fellow Republicans they once loved. His dreadful poll numbers here might drag their House incumbents down next year.

But with little else to cheer in this heavily Democratic state, the California Republican Party is falling hard for Donald Trump.

Rallying their dwindling ranks at the party’s fall convention over the weekend, Steve Bannon drew applause when he called former President George W. Bush a “piece of work” and said “there has not been a more destructive presidency than George Bush’s.” As for another Republican who once led the party ticket, Sen. John McCain, when Bannon mentioned his name at a dinner banquet here, someone in the audience yelled, “Hang him!”

Both Bush and McCain won more votes in California than Trump did last year. And the last Republican presidential candidate to carry the state was Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, in 1988. It was California’s own Ronald Reagan who popularized what he called the “Eleventh Commandment,” which declared, “Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.”

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[roamer65]

1. Without Rethugs, CA will be a much better place.

Hopefully they lose ALL representation in the state.

[SamKnause]

2. Without Evil Lying Republicans, the world would be a better place !!!!

[roamer65]

3. I cannot deny of what you speak.

[Hortensis]

5. Well, THIS version, yes, but half of all Californians are cons.

If they lost all representation, that would be such a huge unbalance of democracy that it would have to create an enormous backlash and crisis. Even as a minority there are many millions and they are a power that will never go away. The question is who will lead them?

Today's Repub voters don't understand that their party's been taken over and is being used to restructure our government to serve the new ultrawealthy classes, that they've been trained as attack dogs against us (divide and conquer). They're currently hopelessly distracted by what's become a visceral need to snarl and slather whenever we come in sight.

But for all of that, they know something is terribly wrong with their leadership -- both the Tea Party and Trump were their failed rebellions against it. Both were/are used by their enemies to gain further power, but that power is being used more and more blatantly to hurt ALL of us, them included, in ways that have to be unmistakable to at least some of them.

I'd missed that this was the Republican Party's fall convention that Bannon was actually keynote speaker (!) at -- a true anti-democracy extremist who's declared war on the party's least corrupted, most responsible members (yes, I know, but they are the least rotten of a toxic lot). Wow! What a mess. Certainly those who attended or approved from home are still very far from understanding who their enemies are. But how many do approve?

Registered Republicans have shrunk 10% in California since 2007, and that number doesn't measure what's been happening since this administration came in. And the party itself is in huge disarray, as this convention makes all too clear. They're having a horrible time finding candidates with known names to try to run for state offices, and several of their reps to DC are in trouble. We shouldn't hold our breath, but a very bad election day for Repubs in California would go a long way to flipping the House.

In any case, we haven't seen the last of the rebellions against their current leaders by Republican voters. Which brings us to back Bannon, who's hoping to lead their third "populist rebellion" -- harnessing this resistance yet again to continue the transfer of our national power and wealth to a new dominating class.

[ghostsinthemachine]

4. Go ahead, put ALL your eggs in that basket

That evil, lying, tweeting, agent of Putin's basket. What Ahhhnold didn't destroy, The Dotard will finish off here in CA. The Rs won't be able to get a dog catcher elected.