The California Democratic Party (CDP) and sour grapes.
June 8th was our California Primary, both major parties had of course put up their candidates from which voters of their respective parties could vote for; except in the case of Governor and US Senate where Democrat Brown who had all but scared off any possible contenders and Senator Boxer being an incumbent didn’t have any real competition which left the Republicans with some very interesting races. Which brings me to why I think the CDP and their operatives are exhibiting nothing more than sour grapes. I can understand members, supporters, operatives and so forth of either party going full throttle after the other side’s candidate of choice, once that choice is clear, but in recent years party machinations have tried to influence the outcomes of primary elections, and in the case of the Republicans this usually translates into an unelectable candidate to face off against the Democratic hopeful. However many Republicans decided that this year would be different and we’d let Republicans decide the outcomes of our own primary election.
Of course the CDP couldn’t help itself launching early and nasty attacks against both Meg Whitman (Republican Gubernatorial candidate hopeful) and Carly Fiorina (Republican Senatorial candidate hopeful). So for the first time in recent memory the Republican party faithful seemed to successfully tune out the CDP propaganda and hit pieces, went to the polls and picked their candidates. Which brings me to the evening of the 8th, when CDP operatives were aggressively handing out little pink half sheets “slamming” Carly. I’m the last one that would attempt to censor someone, but I thought how tacky and how desperate the CDP was to pass out such misleading information during our day to celebrate. Leave it to the CDP to try and rain on our parade, and why couldn’t they wait until the next morning to launch their first salvo in the General Election. They just couldn’t help themselves so they tried to use the celebration at our venue to pass out their sorry attempt to smear our candidate – tacky -- tacky -- tacky.
So as my daughter drove me home I contemplated the motive of these “tiny” people and concluded that the only reason they chose to try and rain on our “parade” was fear! You see they wanted deVore to get the Republican nomination and they did their best to nudge him into the winners slot, because by their calculations he didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in the general election; but Carly, well she’s an impressive leader who has proven she can and will make the tough decisions and could unseat Boxer, and for the CDP and Friends of Boxer this is a very scary thought!
