The Los Angeles Times has an article about a recent poll of California politics and opened with this sentence:
Republicans had to look for a very long time at last week’s Field Poll of California voters to find something remotely uplifting as they ponder the 2010 state elections.
A few paragraphs into the article comes the crux of the Republican Party’s problem today and in the years to come:
Right now, however, there is one group in which they really don’t, and that is among younger voters. The conundrum for the state Republican Party and its candidates: how to get ethnically diverse voters who demand healthcare reform and environmental protection to side with a party associated with neither, and whose icon remains a former president elected before they were born.
Crocodile tears. Here’s the one time that we should not follow the axiom, “Don’t kick a man while he’s down.”