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More Parsky Watch Parsky Watch - The Magazine Take the Parsky Watch IQ Test Visit the Parsky Watch Store	Back to Parsky Watch archives Parsky continues opposition to Recall Parsky Watch #49 July 1, 2003 DAVIS RECALL AND PARSKY PARALYSIS "Although my priority is the re-election of the president, if recent media reports are to be believed, then this recall appears to be on track to qualify," [Gerry] Parsky told an annual gathering of moderate Republicans. "If this effort qualifies, we as a party must be very thoughtful and disciplined if we want to find ourselves in a better place after this is all over," he said. "We must once again look to the president, his vision, his message, as a guide to those who would seek to run in a recall election." -- Associated Press, June 15, 2003. Given the mechanical rigidity of Parsky’s comments about the Davis recall, we’re beginning to wonder the real Gerry Parsky has been kidnapped and replaced by some sort of Parskybot, as part of an insidious plot by the Democrats and left-wing aliens to ruin the California Republican Party. Then again, maybe he just has trouble thinking originally. In any case, we’re fascinated GP is advising the rest of us to be “very thoughtful and disciplined” regarding the recall, when his tenure as CRP Shogun has been exactly the opposite. More to the point, it is especially nervy advice considering Parsky refuses to lift a finger to help this historic opportunity to elect a Republican Governor. The body follows the head, and in our unfortunate case, the head of the California Republican party is Gerry Parsky. Duf Sundheim is a good man who loves his party, but he is hamstrung by the Parsky Reforms that gutted the powers of his office and rendered it almost purely ceremonial. Perhaps that explains why at a recent meeting of the CRP Executive Committee, the recall merited barely five minutes of discussion. Amazing. For the first time ever, we’ll have the opportunity to elect a Republican governor with a plurality of the vote. Given the state’s current tilt, we couldn’t ask for a more favorable circumstance for capturing the governor’s office and showing California voters the difference between a tax-and-spend Democratic legislature and a lowers taxes and economic growth GOP governor. Yet, when asked about what the CRP is doing to help the recall, Duf could only allude vaguely that they are “looking into things” behind the scenes. Very reassuring. Like we said, Duf is boxed in, beset with a bankrupted bounty program, huge bills and over-paid consultants and forced to take his cues from the man who writes the checks and calls the shots --Gerry Parsky. Parsky clearly lands in the camp of Finlandized GOP politicians and money men who have grown comfortable with defeat; who would rather pray for a perfect alignment of the political stars in 2006 than seize the opportunity before them. Fortune favors the bold – not hand-wringers and second-guessers. As long as Gerry remains mystically fixated on the President’s re-election next year, rather than Davis recall this year, CRP will remain a bystander during the greatest Republican grass-roots earthquake since proposition 13.