Jill Stewart on the California Republican’s “Circular Firing Squad”
Jill Stwart’s latest column, Republican Murder-Suicide, asks whether we will ever again have two-party politics in California:
We’ll remain a one-party state as long as the GOP fails to quell its far-right, which insures the party’s failure in California.
As a fiscally conservative Democrat, I want California to return to a two-party system, and thus engage in a true debate over the big ideas. Yet as Republicans gear up for the 2006 statewide elections, they are once again taking actions that guarantee they get nowhere in their uphill battle to regain California.
She looks mostly at the legislature, but the same problem repeats itself when competing for the governorship (Gov. Schwarzenegger would not have survived a Republican primary) and U.S. Senator (Exhibit A: Barbara Boxer, who should be unelectable). Until the California Republican party supports its moderates, it is doomed to perpetual minority status. And while that may feel good, it also means they will have minimal impact on policy.
Is that really the right choice?
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