{"id":188,"date":"2002-02-20T11:42:21","date_gmt":"2002-02-20T18:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/california-republican-death-wish-ii\/"},"modified":"2002-02-20T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2002-02-20T18:42:21","slug":"california-republican-death-wish-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/20\/california-republican-death-wish-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"California Republican Death Wish II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; We commented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bennett.com\/archives\/000293.html#000293\">recently<\/a> on the ideological purity-driven death wish of California conservative Republicans that&#8217;s made that party a non-entity for the past several years. That theme has been amplifed by John Fund in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/diary\/?id=100001701\">Wall St. Journal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsullivan.com\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>.  Former governor George Deukmejian&#8217;s vicious personal attack against Dick Riordan at the state convention figures prominently in this commentary, and Gray Davis is now using it against Riordan himself:   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-000012885feb20.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcalifornia\">Davis Ad Uses Deukmejian to Attack Riordan<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[Davis&#8217; ad] quotes Deukmejian&#8211;no friend of Davis&#8211;questioning Riordan&#8217;s character. &#8220;Former Gov. George Deukmejian says Riordan tries to be all things to all people and questions his commitment to principles,&#8221; the ad intones.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nDavis would clearly prefer to run against Bill Jones than Riordan, since Jones has no appeal outside the Republican base and no money to run a serious campaign. This ad of Davis&#8217; cost $1.1M, ten times the amount that Jones has spent on his own campaign ads. If Davis succeeds in picking his own opponent &#8211; with the help of Deukmejian and the other party faithful &#8211; then we can say that California Republicans have truly drunk the Kool Aid and won&#8217;t be a factor for a generation.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; We commented recently on the ideological purity-driven death wish of California conservative Republicans that&#8217;s made that party a non-entity for the past several years. That theme has been amplifed by John Fund in the Wall St. Journal and Andrew Sullivan. Former governor George Deukmejian&#8217;s vicious personal attack against Dick Riordan at the state convention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/20\/california-republican-death-wish-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California Republican Death Wish II&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-32","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}