The problem is the California GOP. I live in northern California, and nothing was more frustrating to me last year than the realization that the CAGOP has practically conceded the election to the Democrats. There was a lot of grassroots movement happening, but there was no support from the state party. The guy running for the Assembly in our district had no support whatsoever, and this for a seat that was being vacated by a termed-out incumbent.

We have to replace the state leaders. We also need a general plan to recapture California for the conservatives. We can’t just write this state off without a fight.

Henry was in the bedroom of suite at the MGM Grand making deals with the RIAA.

Maybe somebody should write to Michael Steele and suggest that the GOP focus election campaign efforts on trying to unseat Henry Waxman, and while they’re at it, all the Democrats who hold key positions in both houses of Congress.

If we can develop a solidly conservative platform and throw everything we’ve got at the Democratic leaders in Congress, we might see the pendulums come our way soon.

Andrew, trust me conservatives eat their own. If you have NO name recognition you are treated by them as if you are a homeless drunk in a crowded elevator. Liberals will back anyone, no matter who it is as long as that person gets out there and supports abortion, gay marriage and hates Bush. Conservatives only back people who can do something for them. You make a film, write a song, etc if the conservatives don’t know it they just pat you on the back, wish you all the luck in the world and then go run to meet famous people. That is why we are all in the pit we are in. As long as egos, jealousy, and not helping unless that person gets a cut or something out of it. We all better hunker down for generations of leftist democratic rule. The conservatives pulled the same thing in Massachusetts with the only Black conservative republican to run against Ted Kennedy and he could have won if he had the backing of his party and the resources to win.

You think I would be in this position with my film that was blackballed by the left and politely ignored by my own conservatives, if I have the resources? I’d be all over the news raising hell to fire up the base. So i go back into my mine shaft digging to find the mother lode to get me out of this BS on both sides.

Until conservatives think like Democrats and they play to win we will always get abused by them. I am sure Orson has told you this for many years. I tell republicans all the time, ‘NO BUCKS, NO BUCK ROGERS” that is who the mad dogs win and they will defend the most despicable person, who got away with murder and is still in the Senate.

But what the hell do I know, I’m just a filmmaker with a 20 year old film he can’t sell to his conservative peers here in Hollywood.

It’s a waste of resources to spend much money on someone who’s running against someone who’s in such a very safe district, unless there’s some compelling reason to do it.

As for the person mentioned fitting the uniform, perhaps differntiating themselves from the Dems and their quotas/Gramcianism is the better solution. Doing so would allow the GOP to skewer the Dems over those issues, something that would be easy to do if the GOP weren’t too utterly corrupt to do it.

Andrew – don’t blame the conservatives – blame the Republican establishment./ How about abandoning Michelle Bachmann in MN this cycle just because it looked “unwinnable” – Michelle won by a cliff hanger in spite of no support from the Republicans.

It is these reasons why I like to give money directly to candidfates I want rather than trust the Republican establishment.

A depressingly concise connect the dots Andrew. The parallels between the Auto industry (’50’s-’75) and Film/TV (70’s-2000) are astounding. For all the overt hatred toward Reagan – look at the GAP treaty negotiated on his watch. In the 80’s thru the early 90’s Hollywood had a lock on production and distribution WORLDWIDE, providing the kind of lucrative earning both above and below the line undreamed of in prior generations. This was a golden age for crissakes!

Still the ‘rally cry’ in the last WGA strike was what a crappy deal writers settled for back at the advent of VHS & later with DVD’s. All about the residuals being a ‘penison’ with the formula for internet content the new ‘battlefront’. SAG/WGA duplicating what the UAW did in the 60’s & 70’s; with the same result. Driving production out of the US.

Zeroing in on Waxman highlights how domestic politics feeds the erosion. Why is John Conyers still in congress – after all he’s done for Detroit?

It all culminates in the insidious collusion that deprives conservative viewpoints from getting a seat at the table. When this topic has come up – as it has – trolling liberals fire back – ‘you guys are all about the free market so why don’t you just make your movies/sitcom whatever.’

Because there isn’t a free or fair market, that’s why. It isn’t just never before published fifty year old white guys who can’t get a script looked at or sold, it’s ANYBODY who doesn’t hoe the same fellow traveller mindset.

Which is why we need Big Hollywood to short circuit the wiring, and establish portals to benifactors willing to take the risks to make the content we believe Americans (and many the world over) want to see.

Of course it would be delicious to retire Henry Rat Face in the process as well.

Morgan – February 1st, 2009 at 7:26 pm

“Maybe somebody should write to Michael Steele and suggest…..

If we can develop a solidly conservative platform…”

Any hope of a conservative platform went out the window with the GUN GRABBER Steele. But they jus’ had to get their monkey just like the Democrats, right? They have long abandoned real issues and are only concerned with appearances. This country is finished.

Andrew Price – February 1st, 2009 at 6:53 pm

“I also think you touch on another interesting issue. Republicans need to learn how to do “minority outreach.””

Do Democrats every outreach to Whites? Maybe WHITES need to learn how to ORGANIZE and vote as a block?

“It’s not enough to run the occasional ad in Spanish or to be photographed with the occasional minority.”

Actually, when I see that, they LOSE my vote and other votes.

“The Republicans need to open offices in minority districts.”

And get shot? Maybe minorities should learn to stop acting like savages?

” Choose minority candidates to run in those districts.”

Why don’t you wag your finger at those “minorities” and tell them to stop being racist and vote for someone White?

“Work with those candidates and sitting members of Congress to do community work — help small businessmen get loans, help people stuck in the system get past the bureaucracy (e.g. social security, immigration, etc.). This is how you reach people. I hope Michael Steele figures this out.”

He doesn’t have to “figure out” how to be a Democrat. He already is one! Just like McCain. Steele is against gun-rights. He isn’t a conservative.

I’d be willing to pay for Mr Waxman to go to Romania tomorrow, right along with all our Hollywood productions. As long as he stays there.
Republicans don’t like to run against the tide, even down to the PTA level, a friend who now homeschools her kids, was told by her principal that “Mrs. Day, Conservative people just don’t RUN…if you don’t start running for office of School Board or anything else, you’ll never get anywhere.”

Typical. Bring back Mr. Elizalde.. we need him now more than ever.

The black community’s unwavering support for Democrats has always been a puzzle to me. Slavery was ended by a Republican President. Though he was a Democrat, he was a very CONSERVATIVE Democrat when H.S. Truman desegregated the military services. It was a Republican President who provided friend-of-the-court briefs in favor of the Brown vs. Board of Education case that ended the concept of “separate but equal” (in other words, segregation) in schools. The 1994 Civil Rights Act and the 1995 Voting Rights Act, which were of enormous benefit to minorities, would not have passed without GOP support. There were too many Democrats who voted against it for it to have passed without majority GOP support. During the Reagan years, the fastest-growing segment of our society was in blacks moving from the lower economic classes into the middle class and even into the upper classes.

All Democrats have ever done for blacks is to make them more and more dependent on….Democrats. It was LBJ’s policies that literally destroyed tens of thousands of black families by forcing fathers out in order for the family to qualify for receive welfare assistance. It was Democrats who destroyed inner-city schools by insisting that the only teachers who were capable of teaching black kids had to be black, too, causing an influx of highly UNqualfied black teachers into those schools and the exodus of caring, well-qualified, white teachers into the suburbs. Democrats have promoted the concept of “racial justice” to the nth degree, and there simply isn’t a single, living victim of slavery who can claim he/she was damaged by the institution of slavery personally. Victimhood is just easier than studying for years, getting a GOOD education and a good job and working 9-5 5 days per week and too many blacks have been encouraged by the Democrats to choose that path because as imaginary “victims” of racial bias, they are entitled somehow to “free” stuff.

Great column, Andrew. I couldn’t agree more. Maybe it’s a waste of money to fight races you probably can’t win, but then again maybe you start to chip away at the base of support of the Dems by doing so (if it’s done honorably and articulately). If a Conservative can’t win, then run a Moderate or Liberal Republican who shares some of the values of the party instead of turning up your nose and crying for party “purity.”

There’s a reason I’ve never been a registered Republican, and it’s doubtful they’re going to convert me any time soon. Their best weapon at the moment seems to be the corruption and ineptitude of the Left (guaranteeing that I’ll never vote for a Democrat until the party makes major changes). Hoping to win because they other guys will screw up….that’s not going to bring things around unless everything becomes so bad that it will be impossible to fix for a long time. I really hope the Republicans aren’t so desperate for wins that they’ll consider that a viable strategy.

Mr. Elizalde should of been supported. I oppose intervening in primaries-that almost always is stupid, but the Party should help in General Elections.

Term LIMITS on EVERY political position is what is needed. ESPECIALLY senate seats.

Mr. Breitbart,

Prior to his appointment as the chairman of the rnc, (the lower case letters are used purposely), I recall listening to Mr. Steele as he was guest hosting for a conservative radio personality.
During the show, he made mention of several key issues that needed to be changed within the party if republicans were interested in not only regaining the lost congressional seats but in squishing the dnc like a cockroach caught in the middle of a kitchen floor as it scurried to the next free meal made by someone else…
He said that the first and most important change needed was to de-centralize the rnc and allow the local committees more autonomy to run candidates for EVERY district.
While that sounds really great, the bland, boring and butt-kissing majority of local committee members are far more likely to shoot their *&&&KS off instead if given that much latitude.
I live in Placer County, California which had the distinction of being the most conservative county in the state and had the distinct displeasure of watching the local committees in my region be run by some of the most elitist wienies there are. Worse yet, in a nearby US assembly district, virtually no effort was made to unseat the non-active wife of a dead dem in a district that included many conservatives.
Instead, two well known republicans practically beat each other to death to replace a disgraced congressman in a primary, leaving the winner with depleted funds to run against an anti-war veteran heavily financed by the dnc and pac’s like Nancy Pelosi’s. Now that’s what I call a great winning strategy…
Wouldn’t it have been smarter to run one against the widow Matsui and the other against the anti-war candidate. I could name at least five other state state races where the local committee managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, but I can only take one anti-depressant a day…
This is a perfect example of why I will ONLY support candidates directly, because at the local level, the rnc is usually a country club run by fat, paranoid middle aged white guys who do not know how to fight.
Fear and arrogance are the currency they use and neither wins elections.

Russ – February 1st, 2009 at 10:42 pm

BTW, Michael Steele had better, first, learn how to embrace Limbaugh and the grassroots conservatives before courting moderates who don’t know what they believe.

Why is it that some Conservative delude themselves into thinking that the only enlightened opinion is if you agree with them? So Moderates (who decide issue by issue based on the facts) don’t know what they believe? Would you care to back that up factually?

Pandering to illegal aliens doesn’t work. Moderates don’t work. Get with the AMERICAN PEOPLE and you could win without even needing to waste money on slick ads (designed to fool people anyway – inherently dishonest.)

Run on:
deport all illegals
raise tariffs
end aid to Israel

A VAST majority of Americans want these things but neither party does because they are bought off by foreign special interests. This is treason going on.

I bame the corrupt unions. They’re killing us here and across the nation.

Andrew, out here in flyover country the small band of consevative rebels in Hollywood were only recently discovered. You are right to chide the party because the Greybeards drove us into this ditch by going to the left. Liberterians and social conservatives on the fringe split for Obmaa because what use is a 10 percent republican. Just like the Democrats except 10 percent less. I will point out to you consevatives in Hollywood that you failed to get in the face of Big Hollywood and communicate the notion to the rest of the movement. Aside from the last election, when Jon Voight ruffled a few feathers, Has any conservative in Hollywood called an idiot star out, a producer or director. Who stood with Elia Kazan, John Wayne, or Charleton Heston? My point is we never knew because Conservative Hollywood failed to Act, speak, or just plain have a brawl.
With you to communicate with us now talk to the Heartland more, we need you.

Thank you, Mr. Breitbart, for addressing what I consider to be one of the top crucial issues for the GOP. I’m am sick and tired of the state and national levels of the Republican party conceding certain elections versus getting in there, gloves dropped, with full fight to win them! RNC Chairman Steele recognizes this weakness in our party, and appears to have incorporated this as a priority in his blueprint for improving the GOP’s electoral success.

California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore has recently declared his candidacy to run for Barbara Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat in 2010 (www.chuckdevore.com). As a Californian, this is one election I’d love to see the RNC put their full support behind. This would be such a coup for the GOP if we can capture this seat and remove the extreme far-left lib Boxer! But with California being a majority Democratic state, it will require the national support of our party to help pull this off and get Assemblyman Chuck DeVore elected to the U.S. Senate.

This Waxman character wouldn’t be the famous PigMan from the hospital scene on “Seinfeld” would he?

Fred2-
I don’t think its purposeful that many Republicans (especially local folk and members of grassroots organisations), think of ‘white only’ recruiting strategies; I think they act the way they do out of resignation and fear. Let me explain.

I’m a woman in her mid-30’s with a pierced nose; I’ve been a Republican all my life, and I’ve volunteered for various campaigns since I was about 19 (although I got my nose ring later!). I’m involved with a local conservative group that meets every month, gets speakers, periodically has co-ordinated events with other local conservative groups, etc.

I’ve expressed a lot of frustration with the party and it falls on deaf ears. Everyone seems so shaken and so frightened that we’ll really lose the hearts and minds battle that they are in protectionist mode. When I criticised Dave Reichert for not being conservative enough and supporting illegal immigration and making conciliatory noises about various other things, I was told I didn’t understand, that he’s one of the few GOPs around (I live in the WA state), and we needed to *preserve* his seat. In other words, he needed to talk out of both sides of his mouth in order to not lose his seat. I argued we won’t make gains if we’re on defence, and we need to make the case for being a Republican to people.

It was an eye-opener; the GOP (at least around here) appear to be afraid of getting smacked down. There’s HUGE opportunities to make people realise our message is in line with their goals and we just don’t do it, and it appears to be because we are afraid of failure, so we just try to legalise an illegal class of people (who are highly religious), and claim the party will die otherwise. This is idiotic.

Young families would benefit from our fiscal conservative message, young women from our support of the 2nd Amendment, minorities from the personal independence message the Republican party has (or at least used to have). The GOP is too meek; we don’t want to be mean, we don’t want to be criticised or labeled greedy, so we accept that ‘the Dems have the minority vote’. How can anyone follow us if we don’t appear to have faith in the strength of our own message? We’re doomed ourselves to the very fate we have feared.

I hope Michael Steele becomes a galvanising force for disaffected members of the party who have long been frustrated with our leader’s eagerness to compromise our principles away for the sake of ‘bipartisanship’ and long weekends at Teddy’s beach house during summer recess. We need to start contributing locally, building up a good farm team in our states and push through this cr@p.

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