Posted on 12/18/2004 12:56:18 PM PST by yonif
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested in a German newspaper interview, that the US Republican Party should move "a little to the left", a shift that he said would allow it to pick up new voters.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, has taken an unorthodox approach since winning office last year - standing by a promise to toe a conservative line on fiscal matters while veering leftward on social issues such as gay rights and the environment.
In an interview with Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily, Schwarzenegger said: "The Republican Party currently covers only the spectrum from the right wing to the middle, and the Democratic Party covers the spectrum from the left to the middle."
"I would like the Republican Party to cross this line, move a little further left and place more weight on the centre," he was quoted as saying.
"This would immediately give the party 5 per cent more votes without it losing anything elsewhere."
Schwarzenegger was guarded on suggestions that he harbours presidential ambitions, saying only that a debate on whether the constitution should be amended to allow foreign-born citizens to run was "overdue".
Schwarzenegger became an American citizen in 1983, 15 years after he emigrated from Austria.
He has said he'd consider running for president if such an amendment passed, but has also taken pains to say it shouldn't be created specifically for him.
"I would like people to remember me as someone who raised standards, wherever I got involved," he was quoted as saying.
"I brought bodybuilding from nothing, I made the action film a genre, and the same goes for politics - I want to do things that no one believed possible. I would like to bring people together as governor."
Wow. Arnold is a complete moron.
Since when did Ahnold become Rove?
It will probably be a combination of both the Federal Government and Wall Street who will eventually take over running California.
We could make a quartet if we can find someone to wretch and up chuck.
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Yup... then we can perform some Vomit Vocals in Vegas !!!
It'll be Supercalifragilisticexpealidociously Spewlicious !!! ;-))
I'm just not surprised at all, not after his rousing speech at the RNC convention which happened around the same time as he signed the 50 caliber ban here in Californiastan. And just how has he improved things since he took office? By the time we have a chance to vote again, illegals will have drivers licenses, the state will own more property for envirowhackism, taxes will be even higher, and homos will be obtaining wedding certificates all over the state. But he'll crack a joke and send Maria out to shill for himself and the leftist media will feign unhappiness. The RNC will shrug and get behind another term.
LOL! Yep. Pass the cool aid.
I cease to be amazed. What's truly sickening is how many "Republicans" (sic) want this RINO to be President.
LMAO! Thanks!
In a pig's eye. That RINO supported Prop 71, adding another SIX BILLION DOLLARS to California's already multi-billion dollar burgeoning debt.
Fiscal conservative? My sweet aching @ss.
"California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested in a German newspaper interview, that the US Republican Party should move "a little to the left", a shift that he said would allow it to pick up new voters."
Did Arnie happen to notice that the GoP kept the presidency, picked up seats in the US Senate, and also in the US House?
Tip for Arnie....Go soak your Head!;and shadayupppp!!!!
Kiss my hard-line Republican cheeks Arnold!
Freeking idiot... Get over yourself...
When did he start "toe(ing) a conservative line on fiscal matters"? I must have missed that.
"abortionists and the stem cell researchers"
...and plastinators..
He's firmly in the death camp.
The way I see it the dims are taking the country to hell so fast ya can't see the scenery. At least with the pubbies you can catch a bit of a view every now and then.
Whoa. I hadn't heard that. Where can I dig up more info on that connection? That's some political TNT right there.
I'll try and get a documented source for ya
Tell that to Bush 41. He'll be glad to hear that Arnold thinks that losing the conservative base had nothing to do with his being sent to the showers in 1992.
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