We cats recall plenty of buzz in the last few weeks that the sole Republican among the five candidates for Mayor of Los Angeles was the real deal — a serious, rising GOP star who could, someday, help lead his flailing party out of the wilderness and back to relevance in California.
Whoops.
The next person in charge of L.A. will either be the city's first woman mayor, or its first Jewish mayor. And he or she will be a Democrat. But the next mayor of L.A. will not be the openly gay Republican fiscal conservative Kevin James. So, for the 973rd time since the 2012 election, it must be time to hit the ol' reset button on that GOP reboot.
We cats admit that as Republicans go, Kevin James might have been less objectionable than most. He's generally liberal on social issues (like — gasp! — marriage equality). But he had to back down during the campaign and say he kinda believed in climate change, and that maybe he'd been too "black and white" on immigration. And anybody who writes for TownHall.com is way off the right-wing charts in our book. So we won't miss Mr. James.
We just wonder where the Republicans are going to find the people who will save them. People who aren't retreads, who aren't total whackjobs, and who can win. We're not seeing a lot of those folks around, and we know for sure that they won't be at CPAC, either.
Meanwhile, the GOP "reset moments" just keep coming. Our favorite remains Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal telling Republicans they have to stop being "the stupid party." Because at the same time, he was announcing his plans to throw poor Louisianans out of hospice — even though all the facts and figures proved that cutting dying people off from long-term home and medical care would actually cost the state more than the Medicaid hospice benefit.
Whoops again!
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