Heres a new ad from Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerbergs Cheap Labor lobby FWD.us, The Parable of Pete Wilson about how supporting Proposition 187 in 1994 doomed the Republican Party in California.
I realize that back in 1994, Mr. Zuckerberg was probably less interested in election data than in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, but theres this thing called the Internet and you can use it to look up old numbers to see if somebody is trying to pull your leg. He should try it.
Ive gone over this a million times over the years, but this media myth is just a retconning of history. The GOP won California in 9 out of 10 Presidential elections from 1952-1988, but the historic turning point wasnt after 1994, it was before it: in 1992 Bill Clinton whomped the incumbent Republican president George H.W. Bush 46-33 in California. And the Democrats won two open seat Senatorial elections in 1992: Barbara Boxer won 48-43 and Diane Feinstein won 54-38.
Contrary to the myth, the GOP candidate did relatively better in 1996 than in 1992. I wrote in VDARE:
Indeed, the GOP candidate did better in California in the Presidential election of 1996 than in 1992, both in absolute terms and relative to the whole country. Bush lost the U.S. in 1992 by 5.5 points and California by 13.3 points, while Dole lost the country in 1996 by 8.5 points and California by only 12.9 points. So, relative to their dire performance in the whole country, the GOP Presidential candidate closed the gap in California by 3.5 points from 1992 to 1996.
Poster Comment:
Pandering to Zuckerbergs tribe is what has destroyed the GOP. The Jonah Golberg wing of the GOP were the ones pushing to remove Israels enemy Saddam, never mind how great he had been against our own enemy Iran. Zuckerbergs tribal interest is to see western nations swamped by immigration to turn them into multi-cultural cess pools. And America of hyphenated Americans who may be played against each other, divide and conquer. While Americans are supposed to function as Janissaries to keeps Zuckerbergs own tribal homeland inviolate.
Stop pandering to Zuckerbergs tribe, start pandering to Americans. If it takes economics that end up stripping some loot from Zuckerbergs tribe, so be it. Preserving America is more important than preserving Zuckerbergs purse.
The Jonah Golberg wing of the GOP were the ones pushing to remove Israels enemy Saddam, never mind how great he had been against our own enemy Iran.
Not really. Hussein and Iraq were no real threat to Israel. He liked to talk crap about Israel just like the Israel pols liked to talk crap about him and Iraq,but that was just the game they played to appease the low-IQ people so they could stay in power.
Truth to tell,he was maybe the biggest asset that Israel had since he and Iraq were responsible for the deaths of more fundie Muslims than every other nation on Earth combined.
He and Iraq WERE a genuine threat to Saudi Arabia,though. it was Saudi Arabia that bought and paid for that one.
Not really. Hussein and Iraq were no real threat to Israel. He liked to talk crap about Israel just like the Israel pols liked to talk crap about him and Iraq,but that was just the game they played to appease the low-IQ people so they could stay in power.
I was alive at the time. Jonah Goldberg's tribe was doing the full court press for that war. They've tried to rewrite history a la Marguerite. Big neo-con interventionists when they wanted the war. The ones shilling for the war had names like Perle, Podhoretz, Frum, Horowitz, Krauthammer and Goldberg. They wanted that war, they wanted it badly, there is way too much evidence to try and sweep it under the rug.