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Go left: Arnie tells US Republicans
The Age ^ | December 19, 2004 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

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."


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bigtent; gop; republicans; rino; schwarzenegger
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To: Captain Kirk
I suspect the GOP might have grown some backbone as it did during the early Clinton years.

Oh, how I miss those days, when conservatives were , well, conservative!

61 posted on 12/18/2004 1:21:34 PM PST by JustAnotherSavage ("As frightening as terrorism is, it's the weapon of losers." P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: NittanyLion

I went to Behrend in Erie, but main was a great place to party!


62 posted on 12/18/2004 1:22:45 PM PST by superskunk (Quinn's Law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.)
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To: superskunk
It's the old saying, sometimes it has to get worse before it can get better which it is going to do in this state once the boomers in state government retire and bankrupt this state. 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.
63 posted on 12/18/2004 1:23:06 PM PST by John Lenin
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To: Sonny M
You show a level of intuition that most FReepers can only dream about. Touche!

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.

64 posted on 12/18/2004 1:25:21 PM PST by Reagan Man ("America has spoken")
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To: JustAnotherSavage
True...I really do HATE limp wristed conservatives. They should just be honest and switch parties. There absence wouldn't be a loss.
65 posted on 12/18/2004 1:25:50 PM PST by superskunk (Quinn's Law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.)
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To: yonif
Ahnold really means he wants the GOP to GO LEFT at a much faster rate than it already is...going

The GOP just isn't making enough 'progress' for the likes of Ahnold....the Austrian....

How far left.... of our founding father's intent...is the GOP anyway...somewhere near where the DNC was about 20 yrs ago?

Is the Founding Father's "intent' even visible in our nations peripheral vision anymore?
66 posted on 12/18/2004 1:26:19 PM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
Considering what Arnold has done and intends to do (licenses for illegals), I can't see how he is different from Bustamante.

Whereas McClintock, the true Republican, would have been different. Tom suffered a major betrayal at the hands of the CRP.

67 posted on 12/18/2004 1:26:48 PM PST by KiloLima (www.opgratitude.com = Give, you will feel better.)
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To: bushisdamanin04
And some people are so stupid as to want to change the Constitution for this guy's sake.

Not only that, but changing the constitution for his sake is a suicidal move. Look what it got Germany in the 1930s.

68 posted on 12/18/2004 1:27:12 PM PST by Paul_Denton
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To: yonif

I agree. It better stop pretty soon or we are in BIG trouble.


69 posted on 12/18/2004 1:28:43 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: John Lenin

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.


70 posted on 12/18/2004 1:29:40 PM PST by superskunk (Quinn's Law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.)
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To: yonif

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.


71 posted on 12/18/2004 1:30:20 PM PST by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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To: yonif
RINO Ahnold: "This [moving politically left] would immediately give the party 5 per cent more votes without it losing anything elsewhere."

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.

72 posted on 12/18/2004 1:30:38 PM PST by F16Fighter
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To: yonif

Um, my advice to Arnie is to go a little to the right. Then he'll have a better chance at higher office!


73 posted on 12/18/2004 1:30:50 PM PST by No Dems 2004
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To: bushisdamanin04

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


74 posted on 12/18/2004 1:31:59 PM PST by muir_redwoods
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
I'm glad I am not the only one hoping for bankruptcy.

It's coming real soon here, there is no way to avoid it. The state tax will have to double just to pay for the pension system within 7-10 years.
75 posted on 12/18/2004 1:33:15 PM PST by John Lenin
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To: yonif
Go left

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.....

76 posted on 12/18/2004 1:34:10 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: muir_redwoods
And, more importantly, the Men of Steel just defeated the Gi-Ants 33-30.
77 posted on 12/18/2004 1:34:40 PM PST by bushisdamanin04
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To: No Dems 2004

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?


78 posted on 12/18/2004 1:35:07 PM PST by superskunk (Quinn's Law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.)
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To: superskunk
I think he's just playing 'the diplomat'.

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?

79 posted on 12/18/2004 1:36:00 PM PST by Reeses
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To: muir_redwoods

Do what? Ben was born in Boston. Look it up.


80 posted on 12/18/2004 1:37:58 PM PST by RichInOC (Mark Morford 2008: When The Going Gets Weird, The Weird Go Pro.)
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