Arnold is destroying California. We are worse off, not better.
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Posted on 12/28/2004 10:49:19 AM PST by truthandlife
In the new Broadway play "Democracy," actor Richard Thomas plays an East German spy who manages in the midst of the Cold War to penetrate the upper echelons of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's government.
California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could be the Democrat Party's "plant" inside the GOP, or so it seems from an interview he gave recently to a German newspaper. In that interview, Mr. Schwarzenegger suggested the Republican Party should move left to attract more voters.
What is interesting about this suggestion is its contrast with what Mr. Schwarzenegger told the Republican National Convention in New York last summer. Then, he said it was Richard Nixon and his conservative policies that persuaded him to become a Republican after emigrating from his native Austria. Nixon famously created the Southern strategy, which doomed the GOP's liberal wing and began the Democrat Party's long decline into its current anemic state.
Why would Mr. Schwarzenegger want to trade a winning strategy for one with a proven record of failure? When the Republican Party was controlled by lefties like Nelson Rockefeller and House Minority Leader Charles Halleck, the party lost elections. For 40 years, the moderate-liberal wing of the Republican Party never achieved majority status in the House of Representatives.
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Arnold is good for California (at least a marked improvement). Fortunately, the constitution allows him no shot as CIC.
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Arnold is to California what that wrestler guy was to Minnesoooota, just a passing anomoly.
Arnold is destroying California. We are worse off, not better.
Here you go. Have some more.
Give me a break. He's no plant. It's just the cost of being a "big tent."
Just let him run CA, and ignore him. When you look at it that way, it's not so bad. It's better to have a liberal Republican running CA than a liberal Democrat.
I heard a report that he denied suggesting that we move towards the left. I'm going from memory, but it seems like he suggested that we 'reach out' to the left. I wouldn't recommend doing either (It's been tried. It's pointless.), but it seems to change the connotation of the message.
It's the VOTERS!
Gray Davis had you in a death spiral. Arnold has at least slowed the spiral so it can potentailly be reversed.
What is he doing to "destroy California"?
How is it "worse off", and "not better" than what they had?
Two questions, hopefully two specific answers. Thanks.
Tell Cal Thomas not to sweat the small stuff - xlinton was a communist agent!
He described the democrat party as being from the far left to the middle.
He described the republican party as being from the far right to the middle.
He then suggested that the republican party "cross over the line" to pick up 5% of the democrats.
In other words, he suggested that the republican party should move left.
There is no other way to interpret it, even if he didn't use the term "move left."
But it's fun to spin titles to fit an agenda!! What's wrong with that?
I feel the same way about Ahhhhhnold that I did about DiFi when she was my mayor twenty-some years ago-the "best" of lousy alternatives as those who can remember the likes of Art Agnos will understand (or John Burton as a Congresscritter)--
Girly Men
Plant or not, Ah-nold's speech at the Republican Convention was effective enough to tolerate a few misguided remarks from time to time.
As long as he doesn't let some girlie men start writing his speeches for him, and goes with his instincts, he can be of use to the GOP.
Jeez!! As hard as it is to get a Republican elected in California these days, I'll take what I can get!
I wouldn't give them that much credit. These are the same people that thought John Kerry was a good candidate. They're not that smart.
*Yawn* We all know Arnold is a Rovian spy whose actually a double agent planted here by the DUmmies. . .
Discuss it amongest yourselves.
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