Those darned elected officials and other insiders. Next thing you know, they're going to be running our government.

I've spoken to two past heads of the CDP in the past couple of weeks. Neither of them are interested in Orly in the slightest. They both cringed when her name came up and had minor rants about how awful she is but neither consider her even as significant as a fly in the ointment. She's not, I repeat not, a threat to Dianne. I don't believe they'd chose to focus on her.

She's more of a threat to the Repigs, because especially if she gets the nomination, she makes them look like incompetent buffoons who couldn't even defeat an incompetent nutcase like Orly.

Taitz is smart enough to know that June primary is a race for second place (Feinstein will be first), and that Emken is her main opponent.

Taitz, however, invokes the name of the tea party, which has fizzled considerably since 2010 -- partially due to events such as a tea-party candidate besting a mainstream candidate in the primary, only to get creamed in the general election.

Well, now that it's an open primary, as a Democrat in California I know who I will vote for.

OD: Please take the lesson of The Producers to heart. When you set out to deliberately fail, you might inadvertently succeed. Then you must live with unintended consequences. People sadly tend to vote on name recognition and women tend to get elected more frequently than men. Feinstein fortunately has both. I think to vote for birfoons or TPers only encourages them.

I know all about the Producers ... my favorite film long before it became a musical. But I am not sure the premise holds here -- remember David Dukes in Louisiana? It would be more like that. I think Orly coming in second would help the Dems. It would mean a significant savings in funding for Feinstein/Dems. And would be such a huge embarrassment for the GOP, it might actually have an impact nationally and help Obama.

On the other hand, if O'rly came in 5th, she might begin to understand the vastness of the conspiracy against her.

Damn it Zeke! I'm all out of kewpie dolls!

You think, you wish. And this is how Lester Maddox ended up being governor of Georgia; the Republicans crossed over and voted for him in the primary because he was going to be so much easier to beat.

I'm not so sure. I think Lester Maddox was elected because he was Lester Maddox. Republicans crossed over and voted for him because they liked what they saw.

You may not be sure, but I was there, and I am. Do you have any facts to show that it was otherwise, or are you just WAGing?

They thought Maddox was a buffoon, but at that time there had been no Republican governor ever elected in Georgia since Reconstruction -- the "real election" was still the Democratic primary. The GOP nominee, Bo Callaway (of Callaway Gardens name), stood little chance against the respected moderate Democrat, Ellis Arnall. Their votes were able to push Massox into the runoff with Arnall, and then they flooded in in droves to vote for Maddox in the runoff.

I would remind you that the Republican Party of 1966 was quite different than the GOP of today, even in Georgia, and most of the 1964 Goldwater crossovers were still Democrats. Prior to Goldwater, the Republican insurgence in the South was reformist, the Democrats were the entrenched party of racism there, and the "negro vote," what little there was of it, was reliably Republican.

I fail to see the connection between Maddox's 1966 Georgia campaign and Taitz's 2012 California campaign. (Especially considering Feinstein is 20-year incumbent in a blue state.)

I toyed with that I idea, but I feel conflicted about it. It might be fun to screw with Orly that way, but I think I should vote for my real candidate instead.

Every vote that Taitz receives she will trumpet and celebrate as proof that she is important and relevant, even when she loses. So why contribute to that? She is likely to come in second anyway due to name recognition among the otherwise ignorant.

Taitz on the ballot against Feinstein in the general election will be embarassing to the state GOP, but that party is on the ropes already. The fall into complete disgrace is a very short one and will occur without voters throwing away their vote in the primary election.

I remember Lester Maddox and the Ax, quite well. But I agree here with bob, this is hardly the same. First of all, Maddox had an issue that rang true at the time with GA voters who, wrong or right, felt they were being disenfranchased. Moreover, while there wasn't polling at the time, I suspect he was a hero, not a clown in the eyes of the electorate. In fact, Maddox had a sizable base, even if it was undefined at the time. That is hardly true with Orly. Other than her Flying Monkeys, she has negatives higher than anyone in either party in the race and is considered a buffoon. You aren't suggesting that in an overwhelmingly blue state where Obama will carry it like a piece of puff pastry, a nut-case like Orly could even compete against a Dem incumbent? How big is her base, again? And don't forget: she couldn't even keep an invitation to speak at a relatively small GOP caucus. They find her as abhorrent as we do, as do most GOPs in California who know of her (thus the high negatives).

With Emken in second, there is likely to be spending on both sides -- I have seen her profile and she is pretty attractive as a politician, a real package of experience, outside-Washington bent while still knowing the ropes, etc. With Orly in second, in a state where most Republicans are pro-Choice and the Tea Party is a whimper at best, it would be only funny -- and Dianne and the Dems wouldn't have to spend much on the race. With Emken, the GOPs will put up the bucks to draw the Dem money into the race.

That is why I know who I am most likely to vote for in this crazy top two-person primary that we insanely voted in!

There just may be some birther in-fighting!: Lightfoot for Senate 2012!

(Taitz filed on Lightfoot's behalf an emergency petition in SCOCA to stop California's certification of the 2008 election results.)

She didn't actually make it to the list, did she?

Lightfoot hasn't (yet) filed with the FEC. But I note there are a few candidates who have submitted statements that also haven't filed with the FEC.

Looking to find the Secretary of State's official list of approved candidates, but haven't found it yet.

http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=33114#comments

Huh? What "message" is Taitz sending by participating in these "rigged" elections?

The one on her candidate statement. The only one she cares about. The smearing of the President of the United States of America.

You hit that nail on the head raicha. Nothing (other than getting her name down in the history books as the greatest person to ever draw breath since Joan of Arch) matters. P E R I O D.

How very helpful. Orly is thanking her minions by name... I can't quote from my phone. Sorry.





FIFY

Wasn't Mike the mysterious person identified as the forger of the LFBC

He is now on her side?????

I thought he was on our side.