Posted on 03/22/2018 5:07:22 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday that wealthy donors should “starve” the Republican Party of funds until it moves in the liberal ideological direction that he, and they, desire. The Fresno Bee reports:
“The people that are funding the Republican Party should turn off their financial support, because that would starve the party, and I think they would then maybe come to their senses,” Schwarzenegger told a crowd at the launch event for his centrist Republican advocacy group New Way California. “You better go and lead and tell your people around you that we’ve got to change, because that’s what California demands, or there will be no more money.”
Schwarzenegger, California’s highest-profile Republican figure and one of the last to win statewide office in 2006, is part of a nascent movement to reshape and broaden the appealof a political party that now makes up just a quarter of registered voters here. During his speech at a community center in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, he took a victory lap for predicting his party’s demise in an infamous 2007 speech where he said the California GOP was “dying at the box office.”
Schwarzenegger was joined by Ohio Governor John Kasich, who lost to President Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primary and then stayed away from his party’s national convention, even though it was held in Cleveland.
He was also joined by former Republican State Assembly leader Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley), who was forced out last year after supporting Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democrats in renewing the state’s controversial cap-and-trade program.
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We have a liberal party. If you like those policies, I’m sure they’d take you Arnold...
His election was a fluke, he won’t be back.
I think to say it even better, "Arnold may be a member of the Republican Party, but he is not a conservative."
Not even REALLY sure you can count on that????
We have a liberal party. If you like those policies, I’m sure they’d take you Arnold...
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Exactly. He should stop complaining and just join the party of his ideological brethern. But whining has the advantage getting attention for a publicity hound. Its all about a fading politician getting noticed and trying to be relevant again. Pathetic.
Okay. But I thought that was self-evident. It’s been more than 25 year since the Republican Party actually represented conservatives.
Wow, did Arnold turn out to be a turd. Sure he wasn’t born in Braunau?
Yeah, he also said that he grew up with Nazi tanks in the streets of his home town.
Airhead body builder. Can lift a ton but can’t spell it.
Time to form a Conservative Party as Republicans have definitely lost their way!
If you can't wrest back control of the GOP, then you sure as hell will have no success with a "conservative party". Besides, there already is a Conservative Party.
How's that working out for you?
And being around Kennedy’s as well.
Designer Liberalism.
For liberals who think the Democratic Party is too vulgarian and declasse for their exquisitely refined tastes.
In a word, Chablis and Caviar Liberalism.
For the kind of folks who think conservatism is too crude for them to bear as well.
Schwarzenegger and John Kasich will NEVER get MY vote for the Presidential Race !
... or they have been infiltrated ...
... like the churches ...
... and the schools ...
... and the entertainment industry ...
... and the news organizations ...
... all according to (the Gramsci) plan ...
... the great march through the institutions ...
... courtesy of the good folks at the Frankfurt School ...
If you want liberal then switch to the Democrats. Problem solved.
So this is how they think it should work? Rich donors telling the rest of us how to think?
Remember when Progs were outraged at Citizens United and how it would “buy”elections?
He has gone full retard. Damn, what happened to him?
What’s stopping Steyer and Arnie from setting up their own centrist party?
C’mon guys, if there’s market for centrism, voters will flock to it.
A party with donors, but no voters.
How do you propose THAT is gonna work there, Arnie?
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