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."
If the price of courting the Hispanic vote is abandoning conservative values, then I heartily reject this, come what may.
A move to the left would be both dangerous AND disastrous.
Educating the Public about what it our Founding Fathers believed in, and what a "Constitutional Republic" is supposed to be, as well as educating the public about the ACTUAL language of the Bill of Rights would move some on the left to the right! THAT is the right strategy to take in this political mess the lefty loonies have created.
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Didn't think so.
Great term, RINOld. I think I will call him aRINOld from how on...
I agree with the folks who think that by moving left to get a sliver of the wacko vote, the GOP will lose the Lion's Share of pro-life social conservatives who handed GWB this victory.
Poor Arnie, his lack of prinicples are showing, AGAIN.
Arnie, Bush won because he went to the RIGHT. People are sickened by LEFTISTS like YOU who sympathize with homos and are pro choice - all qualities you HAVE. Arnie, YOU are a loser. You should be honest and just become a DEMONcrat rather than parading around as a Republican.
I didn't stand out in the cold and hold signs and have passing motorists throw cups and cans at us, nor send money to Republican candidates, including Pres.Bush, nor talk my head off trying to convince leftist that there is a better way so we can move the country left. This country is so far left now from the past 45 years of liberal and judicial tyranny that we will need a bulldozer just to move it a little to the right. No one in the Republican party should be talking about moving left or making nice-nice with prosocialist, procommunists, leftist, democrats before we right the ship that is listing to the left. But I'm not bitter.
On the other hand, I don't think George Bush got any of his votes from liberals, and he didn't get any of his votes from people who were afraid that they had to pick Bush because Kerry wasn't going to increase the size of government fast enough for them.
So there probably are 51% conservative people out there. No point moving to the left. Arnold just wants to do this because he knows he's not popular with conservatives.
Another good reason why a foreigner should not be President -- or, actually, any government job, but I suppose we're past that point by now.
Roy Moore for President. It's really not a bad idea. Here's a man who will make personal sacrifices for a principle. Don't we need people exactly like that?
BTW, it's "the Democrat Party".
LOL! Well said.
And some people are so stupid as to want to change the Constitution for this guy's sake.
Now you couldn't be talking about the "wonderful, exciting, courageous" U.S. senior senator from UT, could you?
I don't think George Bush got any of his votes from liberals....
Wrong, didn't Arlen and his two ME women colleagues say they voted for BushCheney?
How about me crossing a line and scoring with Maria?
Maria Shriver (R), wife of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, poses with her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder and honorary chairman of Special Olympics, before the start of the California Governor's Conference on Women and Familes in Long Beach, California December 7, 2004. REUTERS/Jim Ruymen
wasn't sure about that. That's a scary prospect.
Figures. He's a RINO married to a Kennedy. It was only a matter of time before the horns popped out of his head, starting with breaking his promise regarding drivers licenses for illegals.
I used to respect the man to whom you allude; I'm not sure what the heck happened to him. Maybe just age.
And NO WE WILL NOT CHANGE THE U.S. Constitution so you can run for the White House!
Fortunately, Hamilton et al. made it nearly impossible to accommodate a politician born outside the country after 1789.
I think I speak for the vast majority of Republicans when I say to Arnold:
Go F--- yourself, Governor!
And I also hereby publicly admit that I was wrong to support Arnold's candidacy here on this forum over McClintock. Please forgive me.
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