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."
Oh, how I miss those days, when conservatives were , well, conservative!
I went to Behrend in Erie, but main was a great place to party!
People who support the policy agenda of GovRino are not, I repeat, are not, political conservatives. Arnie belongs in the Democratic Party, with his Kennedy relatives.
Whereas McClintock, the true Republican, would have been different. Tom suffered a major betrayal at the hands of the CRP.
Not only that, but changing the constitution for his sake is a suicidal move. Look what it got Germany in the 1930s.
I agree. It better stop pretty soon or we are in BIG trouble.
We have to make an example of socialism and how deadly it can be when the incentives are for everybody to be on the government dole.
True!!! One would think that the world wide massive failure would be enough evidence for the liberals, but we're dealing with an exceptionally dense bunch.
Dense. Not stupid, though. We can never afford to underestimate them.
WE should fake a left step much like Hilary has faked her right step. That would make things fun and make the ultra-leftist scream even louder.
Spoken like a true Democrat in sheep's clothing -- and as delusional and arrogant.
THIS is what the Californian fraught upon themselves when they supported this fraud instead of a real Republican.
Um, my advice to Arnie is to go a little to the right. Then he'll have a better chance at higher office!
We didn't change it for Benjamin Franklin so I don't see changing it for Arnie. I love you Arnie but you're no Ben Franklin
Sounds good. If we do that we should be able to win a couple of presidential elections, gain control of the senate and house,......hmmmm....wait a minute....didn't we.....
He said he wouldn't mind running for President if an ammendment was passed allowing it; however, the 'born citizen' limitation is part of the original constitution. That can't be altered, can it?
Democrats always say something other than what they mean, wink wink. Conservatives mean what they say and say what they mean.
If the Republicans moved any further to the left, what would that leave the Democrats? Communism?
Do what? Ben was born in Boston. Look it up.
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