Unbelievable:

So how did Emken get that whopping 12.5% of that vote to become the Republican standard bearer? She employed a mailing house to include her on a conservative slate mailer (suck it,Orly Taitz!) that went out to 5.5 million Californians and, after picking up 604,910 votes, it was “Sweet! Beltway here I come…”. [...]

Remember that $200,000 that she had on hand? Yeah. Funny thing about that. According tothe Landslide Communications lawsuit, Emken loaned her campaign $200,000 on March 24th and proceeded to flash her roll to vendors to show them that she had the ability to pay and it was full speed ahead. But then she repaid herself that $200,000 three weeks later on April 18th and didn’t notify anyone until May 29th, just a week before the election.

Psych!

Now she’s got no money no money no money because nobody is going donate to a campaign that looks worse than Todd Akins which means that Elizabeth Emken is like a low rent Sarah Palin, if that is possible.

I live in the district (or what’s left of it) in which Emken made her bid, and was frankly shocked to hear that California Republicans weren’t able to come up with a better sacrificial lamb than someone who couldn’t win a primary for Congress. But this is the sign of a state party in an advanced state of decomposition. They can’t scare up halfway-credible people to contest the races. Used to be they’d be able to find a former Secretary of State or AG or something, but there just aren’t any Tom Campbells left because the GOP thought that running one-percenter candidates was going to be the ticket to getting back in the game. The Tom Campbells all said to hell with it, the millionaires are gone, which leaves us with…Elizabeth Emken. Increasingly, we’re looking at a GOP that can only contend far inland and in some parts of the Central Valley, and that segment is not going to bend for moderation any time soon because they’re ‘merikuns. Sign of times to come, nationally, perhaps?