Now this is really sad.
The underdog Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate is trolling for Republican support in California.
Perhaps there is some hope for the GOP to be relevant in a statewide office again, but not just as a marginal king-maker.
Loretta Sanchez, or Little Whoop-Whoop, is raising some money, and lots of media endorsements.
But Korrupt Kammy pretty much has this race sewn up in her favor.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Hurting for support in her own party, Rep. Loretta Sancheztilts her Senate campaign to the right
Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s U.S. Senate campaign
has swerved away from the left side of the road in recent weeks.
Oh, would that both candidates swerved from the extreme left-wing insanity.
The Democratic congresswoman popped up on a conservative
talk radio show in San Diego to tout her record against “Islamic extremists.”
She ventured to Shasta Lake, Northern California’s Republican frontier
populated by farmers and ranchers, and promised to listen to all sides to
address the state’s water crisis. And on Thursday, Sanchez will chat with U.S.
Marines at Camp Pendleton, where she will be joined by Vista Republican Rep.
Darrell Issa, who once called President Obama “one of the most corrupt
presidents in modern times.”
She promised to listen to all sides.
Isn't that nice? The same way the state senator Steve Glazer promised to be a moderate voice of reason in Sacramento, yet has continued voting left time and again.
In California’s historic Democrat-versus-Democrat U.S.
Senate race, those events and a string of others offer clear signs of Sanchez’s
effort to court the fertile field of Republicans, independents and moderates
who feel disenfranchised with two Democrats on the Senate ballot.
The answer to this disenfranchisement is to have a Democrat and a Republican in the Top Two!
But whether Sanchez can attract enough support across the
political spectrum to overcome opponent state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris’
substantial advantages in fundraising, among Democratic Party leadership and in
the polls, especially among California’s registered Democrats, remains in
doubt.
I have a ready-made answer for this:
A Field poll in early July found that 39% of likely voters
supported Harris, compared with 24% for Sanchez. Harris had the support of
nearly half of likely Democratic voters.
That same poll, however, found that 56% of Republicans and
41% of independents and voters in other parties were undecided or didn’t
support either candidate. It’s that group of untethered California voters that
offers Sanchez a glimmer of hope in November, if she can win them over.
Count me in that category at this time. I cannot see myself pulling the lever for either candidate.
Sadly, I am not seeing the Dem v. Dem money drain which pragmatic Republicans had predicted. Democrats are machine animals, and they understand the necessity of lining up behind one candidate to discourage rival candidates and fundraising.
Seizing on a potential opportunity to broaden her base of
support, Sanchez has cast her front-runner rival as the “totally to the left”
darling of the San Francisco-based California Democratic establishment, a
message similar to that pushed by Republicans in the primary.
Sorry, Loretta, but you are as establishment as it gets, too!
Can Republicans use this divide to their advantage though, as Sanchez still votes in the House of Representatives?
But to win, Sanchez still needs strong backing from Latinos
and a decent share of Democrats, which could make her path to victory
challenging.
She has more Latinos than a Democratic pollster for Korrupt Kammy can laugh at. She has all the media endorsements one could covet, too.
And still Kammy rises.
“It’s not like she’s going to suddenly become something she’s
not,” said Bill Carrick, Sanchez’s political consultant. “But a lot of what is
in her record is what Republicans like: national security experience, homeland
security experience. There’s plenty of Republicans who like the fact that she
voted against the war in Iraq. There are a lot of Republicans who like the fact
that she voted against the Wall Street bailout.”
Yes, that's nice. She voted against Big Bank ballots.
It's an entirely different story what she will do when she sits in the U.S. Senate, where liberalism and government-centered centrism takes hold.
Former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, who hosts a
conservative radio talk show on KOGO-AM in San Diego, had Sanchez on as a guest
last week and talked about the dilemma that he and his Republican listeners
face in a Senate election between two Democrats.
Carl DeMaio doesn't not like Loretta? Whoop-Whoop. This is the same openly gay liberal Republican who got crushed in a winnable race in 2014, in large part because conservatives would not vote for a liberal who was determined to upend the party platform on ... just about every issue imaginable.
“I’m not sold on you at this point, but I can tell you right
now I’m definitely urging a ‘no’ vote on Harris,” DeMaio said.
“If you don’t vote, then Ms. Harris and her party
establishment will win,” Sanchez replied.
The party establishment already won June 7th, with two Democrats sweeping the Top Two.
Someone, make the hurting stop!
This summer, the Sanchez campaign boasted about endorsements
from two prominent Southern California Republicans: former Los Angeles Mayor
Richard Riordan and former Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon of Santa
Clarita. Riordan has called Harris a “crazy liberal” and McKeon, the former
chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, praised Sanchez for supporting
policies that protect “our troops and the homeland.”
Richard Riordan embraces everybody, and fewer people seem to care.
Buck McKeon? Outside of the Santa Clarita region, this Republican is hardly "prominent".
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt endorsed Sanchez when he
interviewed her in July and later tweeted: “That was a 1st in my 16 years of a
national radio show: I endorsed a Democrat 4 US Senate: @Loretta2016: an old
friend + far better of 2 Ds.”
Why not go for 3-D? At least it would be life-like, right?
None of the major Republican opponents from the June Senate
primary have endorsed either Democrat, and most declined to reveal who might
get their vote.
Former GOP candidate Tom Del Beccaro doesn’t plan to vote, a
protest, he said, of 2010’s Proposition 14, which gave California the “top two”
primary.
The congresswoman was also endorsed last week by the
National Assn. of Women Business Owners and addressed the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce on Tuesday.
On Thursday Sanchez is scheduled to join Republican
congressmen Issa and Mike Turner of Ohio, as well as Rep. Scott Peters (D-San
Diego), at a meeting with troops at Camp Pendleton. Issa’s district includes
the U.S. Marine base, and Sanchez, Turner and Peters are members of the House
Armed Services Committee.
Sitting on a military committee does not make a person pro-military. Democrats do this kind of thing all the time. Democratic leadership will place Congressional reps on odd committees often times because they want to punish that member.
How does that make you feel, Loretta?!
The event provides Sanchez with an opportunity to put her
expertise on defense and national security issues on full display, a background
she says makes her the most qualified Senate candidate on the ballot.
Still, Sanchez has struggled to raise campaign funds, and
two independent campaign committees formed to catapult her campaign — one
backed by Republicans and the other by moderates — don’t appear to be faring
any better.
Some Republican political consultants told The Times that
business groups and conservatives have looked at reaching out to the Sanchez
campaign, worried about Harris’ liberal leanings and her possible bright future
in Washington.
Sachez has liberal leanings, too.
Do conservative groups really believe that Sanchez won't drift with the insane Democratic caucus in Washington DC? C'mon, wake up!
Marty Wilson, who managed Republican Carly Fiorina’s 2010
Senate campaign against Sen. Barbara Boxer, said he’s taken part in some
“casual conversations” with conservative-leaning organizations in Washington
about the Sanchez-Harris race. Wilson, who now works for the California Chamber
of Commerce, cautioned that it would take about $15 million to have an effect
on the race, and in the end a Democrat would still go to Washington.
Exactly. Why waste $15 million on the U.S. Senate race? How about diverting the money to ensure the re-election of David Hadley? Young Kim? Eric Linder? Marc Steinorth?
Scott Wilk and Ling Ling Chang to the state senate?
And so on?
President Obama, Gov. Jerry Brown and the California
Democratic Party have all endorsed Harris, adding an air of inevitability to
her campaign in left-leaning California. Former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg recently hosted a Manhattan fundraiser for Harris that will likely
add to her financial edge in the race.
Gun-grabbing Nanny-State Bloomberg has gotten involved. He has decided other Dem v. Dem contests in the past.
Sorry, Loretta. If you don't like Barettas, and Bloomberg doesn't like you, then two constituencies are throwing you out.
As of June 30, Harris had a 3-1 advantage over Sanchez in
fundraising, and $2.7 million still in the bank compared to Sanchez’s $919,000.
The Harris campaign also has tailored its message to appeal
to a broad spectrum of California voters. She has emphasized her
accomplishments as the state’s top law enforcement officer, touting her work
helping to broker a $25-billion nationwide settlement deal with the nation’s
five largest mortgage institutions for improper foreclosure practices during
the housing market crash. Harris will address the Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce in October.
What? Kammy has no appeal. Just lots of money.
On DeMaio’s radio show, Sanchez told listeners that, while
she has a strong Democratic record, she also has a reputation for working
across the aisle and has acquired expertise on national defense and homeland
security issues that she said her rival in the Senate race sorely lacks.
Sanchez also did not back down from her comments last
December that 5% to 20% of Muslims support a caliphate — a strict Islamic state
— a comment criticized by Muslim groups.
I wish that she had backed down and let a Republican enter the Top Two.
“I think when people take a look at me on the issues, they
will realize I have the courage to confront and speak out against the threat of
Islamic extremists,” Sanchez said. “I have a common-sense approach to gun
control that respects the basic human right of self defense — Second Amendment
rights. I’m strong on veterans’ issues,
I’m strong on national defense, on counterterrorism, on homeland security.”
She doesn't have courage. She's just crazy. Two very different things.
Very different. Whoop-whoop.
Not surprisingly, the Harris campaign took notice.
“The vast majority of Californians, regardless of party,
will be disheartened to hear the congresswoman once again use divisive rhetoric
against Muslims and tout her record giving special protections to gun makers
and the NRA,” said Nathan Click, spokesman for the Harris campaign. “Kamala's
campaign is about uniting Californians to address the challenges our nation
faces and to stand up to the corrosive rhetoric we are seeing in our
politics."
Kammy is corrupt, creepy, racist, elitists, and just plain sucks.
With Kammy gone, at least we won't have to deal with her progressive perversions here in California anymore.
As for Loretta Sanchez, it's nice to see Republicans in California having some relevance again.
Some.
Whoop.
