Hey Meg, don’t kid yourself, that’s the same reason people will be voting GOP across the nation!

This could catch on. “I stink, but not as badly as my opponent.”

Meg Whitless; the best governor money can buy.

NORBUTT; the worst blogger money can buy.

Republicorp.us

Meg Whiteman spent 141 million dollars of her own money to buy an election and she is still going to lose. Crash and burn totally pathetic, and she is going to lose to Jerry Brown hahahaha EPIC!

Jonathan Scott said:
Meg Whiteman spent 141 million dollars of her own money to buy an election and she is still going to lose. Crash and burn totally pathetic, and she is going to lose to Jerry Brown hahahaha EPIC!

Even though I like Meg, this is still pretty freakin’ hilarious.

I wish she hadn’t done this ad – she comes across as WAY too desperate.

Shawn Soya said:
Even though I like Meg, this is still pretty freakin’ hilarious.

I wish she hadn’t done this ad – she comes across as WAY too desperate.

It is all the more insulting that she is losing to the biggest career liberal politician in the entire country. That has to hurt really bad.

Jonathan Scott said:
It is all the more insulting that she is losing to the biggest career liberal politician in the entire country. That has to hurt really bad.

That was my thought, too. All that money down the drain it seems

AngelPeters said:
That was my thought, too. All that money down the drain it seems

Jerry Brown has been the poster boy for Effete, granola eating, hollywood elite, big money career liberals for almost 40 years. This is the funniest story that has been on Mediaite in some time.

Jonathan Scott said:
Meg Whiteman spent 141 million dollars of her own money to buy an election and she is still going to lose. Crash and burn totally pathetic, and she is going to lose to Jerry Brown hahahaha EPIC!

She is a very good businesswoman.

We sometimes get politicians who don’t have any real party identification and who don’t really have a firm ideology. They often make able office holders. Meg Whitman might well be such a person. I think she is as Republican as a pancake. But, she tried to turn herself into one. She has come off as inauthentic. I tend to think if she had run as a Democrat, and she is no more Democratic than a variegated wax leafed ligustrum, she might have won.

Meg, get out of California now! Thanks to the Democrats, it’s gonna go bankrupt, and there is nothing you can do about it. Why do you want the fucking headache of being governor of that state?

Azarkhan said:
Meg, get out of California now! Thanks to the Democrats, it’s gonna go bankrupt, and there is nothing you can do about it. Why do you want the fucking headache of being governor of that state?

Actually, California is bankrupt. And, it has a Republican governor. Maybe, Meg can move to Utah and bankrupt it.

Azarkhan said:
Uh, dumb ass, Democrats have controlled the state legislature for 38 of the last 40 years.
Uh, dumb ass, state employee union pensions are what is bankrupting California.
Uh, dumb ass, Democrats have are in the pocket of the unions. Democrats have legislated these bloated pensions.
Uh, dumb ass, why are you so dumb?

You would have thought a Republican governor might have been able to erase all of that.

The Real Royal King said:
You would have thought a Republican governor might have been able to erase all of that

Not if you know anything about California politics.

Azarkhan said:
Uh, dumb ass, Democrats have controlled the state legislature for 38 of the last 40 years.
Uh, dumb ass, state employee union pensions are what is bankrupting California.
Uh, dumb ass, Democrats have are in the pocket of the unions. Democrats have legislated these bloated pensions.
Uh, dumb ass, why are you so dumb?

Wow, you sound so incredibly intelligent in your posts, just as I would expect from someone with your political views. Keep up the good work!

Azarkhan said:
Not if you know anything about California politics.

So, you’re saying there is no reason to vote for a Republican in California?

New campaign slogan: Vote for Meg “I’m The Lesser” Whitman ?

After she loses, maybe she can work at http://www.RepubliCorp.us .

Meg Whitman claims that it is her number one goal to help California. Come on, we know that she didn’t spent 140 mil of her own money to help us, you and I, why would she? She spent that money as an investment, as a way to cut taxes on herself and her rich cronies. If you think she cares about you and your families, your extremely naive. If you believe in trickle-down economics, tell me, when was the last time anything tricked down to you? It NEVER gets that far…..

Pensions are a huge problem but not just in this state…all across the country. And Arnold tried to ram through a bunch of changes to the system via the initiative process and got his ass handed to him by the voters.

There is no one father or mother to California’s ills. It’s the governor, the legislature, the initiative process, the employee unions, the voters…plenty of blame to go around. We have too many idiots out there who think they can just screw the other party in this mess and that will fix the problem. It won’t. Everyone has to come to the table and everyone has to give in on something. That is the only way we’re digging ourselves out. It’s a giant crap sandwich. We all had a hand in making it and now it’s time for dinner.

I actually think Brown is the safer choice this time around. He may or may not be beholden to the unions (seriously, do you think the unions would give to Whitman under ANY circumstance? They’ll donate to Brown not entirely sure what he’ll do but figure he’s a better alternative than Whitman) but Brown is more likely to rebel against his own party than Whitman is against hers and that independence counts for a lot to me in this modern age of “blind party loyalty”. Brown clashed frequently with the Democratic controlled legislature when he was Governor. History really has glossed over Brown’s tenure as Governor. He’s still mostly known for Governor Moonbeam, Rose Bird, and dating Linda Rondstat. Few remember all the fights he picked over policy, how he hated the trappings of the office he was elected to. I’m not saying he was a saint or perfect or anything like that. But I remember him as governor and history’s version of his tenure is a gross distortion.

Spud said:
Pensions are a huge problem but not just in this state…all across the country. And Arnold tried to ram through a bunch of changes to the system via the initiative process and got his ass handed to him by the voters.

There is no one father or mother to California’s ills. It’s the governor, the legislature, the initiative process, the employee unions, the voters…plenty of blame to go around. We have too many idiots out there who think they can just screw the other party in this mess and that will fix the problem. It won’t. Everyone has to come to the table and everyone has to give in on something. That is the only way we’re digging ourselves out. It’s a giant crap sandwich. We all had a hand in making it and now it’s time for dinner.

It REALLY gets old hearing the same old anti-union, anti-public employee rhetoric. Yes, we ALL have to do our part and sacrifice to fix this thing. My husband is a state employee and our family has give 15% of our paycheck for 1.5yrs and are being forced to give 15% for another year. It has been a very trying time for us. What have YOU done, what have YOU given, how have YOU sacrificed for the better of California? Just curious….

In spite of the fact that the lunatic-left d-crat socialists in the CA legislature have already morally, ethically, socially, politically AND economically bankrupted the state, there is still room for a lunatic-left retread like moonbeam brown to do even more damage. He will certainly let the out-of-control socialist legislature continue to enrich themselves, while shafting every business and every taxpayer in the state. Whitman is indeed correct, compared to moonbeam, she is indisputably the best choice for the state, and the ONLY one who will actually try to protect the state and its citizens from the socialist, extremist legislature.

honeybee64 said:
It REALLY gets old hearing the same old anti-union, anti-public employee rhetoric. Yes, we ALL have to do our part and sacrifice to fix this thing. My husband is a state employee and our family has give 15% of our paycheck for 1.5yrs and are being forced to give 15% for another year. It has been a very trying time for us. What have YOU done, what have YOU given, how have YOU sacrificed for the better of California? Just curious….

You’re conflating my “we’re all in it together” screed for an “anti-union” screed. I was in a union for 10 years so I know the benefits (and the ills) of union membership. Unions are not evil, but neither are they perfect and not impervious to reform.

We all try to live our lives within our means by and large. When times are good we spend more, when times are bad we make sacrifices. We cut back on purchases. We do less. We scrape by with less. We adjust.

But for some strange reason we seem hold our own lives to a higher standard than we expect from our government. In tough times we don’t want to see cutbacks. We don’t want to see service disruption. We don’t want to lose libraries, have less police or fire coverage, public transportation, more potholes, etc, etc. And we absolutely don’t want to see tax increases. Unions don’t want to give up hard fought gains. Legislators don’t want to have their turf messed with. Government doesn’t adjust and more importantly the public protests whenever government does try to adjust.

This kind of attitude is what’s driving the state off a cliff. Nobody wants to the state in areas that affects them but is perfectly happy to demand cuts in areas that don’t affect them. Ergo, we have no consensus on how to fix the problem.

As to what I’ve sacrificed? Well as a private enterprise employee now, I twice went through salary reductions at my company during economic down times. Then I got laid off. Been out of work for quite a while now. That’s not necessarily a “sacrifice for the good of the state” per se, but it doesn’t mean that I haven’t been impacted by the negative period. As to what I do to “help”? Options are limited. I’ve grown increasingly fiscally conservative in my voting. I haven’t voted for a bond measure in almost a decade. School improment bond? Can’t afford it. Highway improvement bond? Can’t afford it. I want all these things but I realize that right now we can’t afford to keep adding to the debt so I vote against my own self interest in the name of fiscal sanity. At some point I hope we can start adding back some of these things I feel the need to deprive myself of but the time is not now.

I would add one other thing about Pensions. This is not about unions. It’s about funding. Pensions are not funded fully. This is strictly a numbers game…almost a ponzi scheme. At some point, and for some cities that some point is coming soon, the pension funding issue is going to force cities into bankruptcy. When that happens those pensions are going to be busted. It’s not your fault. You didn’t know this would happen. You thought, and with some justfication, that this was a bond between government and it’s employees. But you’re going to get screwed when it happens. A lot of people are going to get screwed. This happened about 10 years ago in the private sector as companies either jetissoned or started phasing out their pension programs because they couldn’t afford them. It’s going to happen to government next, starting at the city level. A bailout isn’t unlikely as the cost would be in the billions and billions. There’s going to be some sort of restructuring and/or abandonment of the pension system.

Jerry Brown on His First Stint as Governor: ‘It’s All a Lie… I Didn’t Have a Plan for California’

http://www.breitbart.tv/jerry-brown-on-his-first-stint-as-governor-its-all-a-lie-i-didnt-have-a-plan-for-california/

Jonathan Scott said:
Crash and burn totally pathetic

Already that down on your new album?

honeybee64 said:
My husband is a state employee and our family has give 15% of our paycheck for 1.5yrs and are being forced to give 15% for another year.

Ah, poor baby, that’s what liberalism will get you.

The phony royal prince says:

Actually, California is bankrupt. And, it has a Republican governor. Maybe, Meg can move to Utah and bankrupt it.

Actually, it has a R Gov that is nowhere near conservative and a Dem legislature. Nice try though!

I thought this was the republican’s year?

Seeing November From My Window said:
Jerry Brown on His First Stint as Governor: ‘It’s All a Lie… I Didn’t Have a Plan for California’

http://www.breitbart.tv/jerry-brown-on-his-first-stint-as-governor-its-all-a-lie-i-didnt-have-a-plan-for-california/

Typical Breitbart, takes something out of context. It’s a short clip but even I can tell that Brown is referring to candidates stating they have a plan when they run for office but then getting in and throwing the plan out the window. And he’s right.

To add more context to the Brown quote, this is from the 1992 when Brown was running as the insurgent outsider, one of the various lives Brown has lived during his life (Governor, Presidential Candidate, wannabe Missionary, State Party Candidate, Senate Candidate, Insurgent Outsider Presidential Candidate, Oakland Mayor, Attorney General, Candidate for Governor). At the time Brown was calling everyone frauds, even those in his own party. His off prime time speech at the Democratic Convention was remarkable for two reasons 1) He was saying what nobody would say at the convention but which a lot of people in the Democratic party believed, and 2) He got muted applause.

Speaking as a political science grad, I have to admit to a bizarre fascination with Brown. The right loves to just pigeonhole him but he’s such a complex person, operating on so many different levels at the same time. In a lot of ways he’s the left version of Richard Nixon, but without the criminal history and bunker mentality. Both were life long, or would have been life long, public servants and yet both hated the very apparatus that put them in power and the world they operated in.

So spud, should we believe what Brown says now or is he lying again?

She is doomed. That is all.

Stick a fork in the campaign. Toast. Over. Finished!

Patrick Henry said:
Already that down on your new album?

Seymour Stein and I were just listening to my new album and smoking crack and laughing about teabag trolls that hide behind fake screen names they learned on Glenn Beck.

It might be smart in this election to vote as if your job depended on it.

Jonathan Scott said:
Seymour Stein and I were just listening to my new album and smoking crack

I’m sure smoking crack is the only way you can stand to listen to it. Another fine, upstanding liberal.

Jonathan Scott said:> Meg Whiteman spent 141 million dollars of her own money to buy an election and she is still going to lose.

And just how much Stimulus did Moonbeam contribute to California’s economy?

Morgan said:
Jonathan Scott said:> Meg Whiteman spent 141 million dollars of her own money to buy an election and she is still going to lose.

And just how much Stimulus did Moonbeam contribute to California’s economy?

I don’t remember, but the really great thing is we are all going to get to experience Governor Moonbeam once again because the CA Republican Party ran someone who was completely not up for the job, the failure is theirs to own on this one.

California Uber Alles

“Typical Breitbart, takes something out of context. ”

If he didn’t do that, he’d have nothing to say.

Hmm. . . .

http://www.RepubliCorp.us

To you people in California…your state is failing! Your government is failing you! What are you thinking?

Why in the world would you let it be run by a lawyer who has made a living off the public!

Try a business person, someone who knows about income and expense…stupid little things like that.

It is far more than just Union employee pensions that are bankrupting California. California currently is being run by a one-party held Legislative majority (Democrats) who are unchecked in their spending frenzy. Need an “entitlement” to garner votes, no problem. Along with unsustainable concessions to Unions, business restrictions and taxes are driving business out of California. Add to that a nearly 10% State sales tax, and well over 3,000,000. illegal alien trespassers costing California citizens nearly $11,000,000,000. annually, and rising, and it’s not hard to figure out why California is constantly on the verge of Bankruptcy. Currently, more legal citizens are leaving California that entering. The population growth is due to illegal alien trespassers entering California. It’s only a matter of time before the illegals use up an ever dwindling tax base and California is forced into bankruptcy.