Posted on 12/14/2005 6:08:39 PM PST by FairOpinion
The celebrity California governor, gearing up for 2006 reelection bid, aims to craft a more centrist image.
Recover. Reform. Rebuild. As a bodybuilder, that was Arnold Schwarzenegger's method to sculpt eye-popping muscles. As a governor, it was his three-part plan to fix California. Now, it might be his prescription for political survival.
But revamping the Schwarzenegger agenda to reflect Democratic priorities is exactly what California Republicans fear most. "Hell hath no fury like a conservative scorned," says California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres.
For now, Republican Party leaders are standing by their man. "He's done a great job for this state, and I think at present time we stand by that," says Duf Sundheim, chairman of the California Republican Party. "We hope that he retains his decision to [run again] as a Republican."
"The problem he ran into this year was that he emphasized the most conservative aspects of his agenda. The lesson Schwarzenegger learned is that he has to present himself in ideological balance." (Schnur, GOP strategist)
"Arnold needs to stay with us," says Mr. Jeffries. "And we need to stay with him."
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Please note the comment by the Dem Chairman who is counting on the conservatives to sink Arnold and get a Dem elected.
Something all rational Republicans and conservatives should consider.
What do you know about rational and who are you to criticize?
Conservatives knew what they were getting with Schwarzenegger
Weakening Schwarzenegger through party infighting will only compound the damage Democrats have inflicted on the governor and all but assure a return to the bad old days of one-party rule in California. Then we'd all have good reason to hold our noses.
BS
Arnold is a gun grabbing elitest... there is no way I'd support him for anything at any time. He should go back to making movies and leave the politics alone.
Mike
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
California needs a REPUBLICAN Governor.
Bustamante, Davis, Angelides are just SOOOO much better... (/sarcasm)
And you are going to wave a magic wand and make the californian voters elect a conservaitve, right?
The same voters who rejected some common sense propositions, which were in line with conservative ideas.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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A couiple of party leaders still stand by him for now.
We've never had massive increases in budgets like we have had the last 2 years.
We then get taken for a ride as greens and gays are appointed at numbers approaching if not exceeding republicans much less conservatives.
Oh, that's right , "WE" won the Recall, huh? Got rid of Gray and now we have Gray 2 presiding... almost doubled our long term debt and about to be told we need to borrow even more ..
Good Lord, when will you and your ilk just leave this forum or at least come to your senses, you are nothing that you pretend to be, just like your Trojan Horse in Sacramento.
You need to put everything on a scale, the negatives on one side, the positives on the other side.
Everything considered Arnold's positives still outweigh the Dems by far. If you consider nothing else, he held the line on taxes, he tried to defang Prop. 98, which is a major cause of our budget problems, but the voters didn't support him.
Don't blame Arnold for the stupidity of the CA voters.
Very few of us here, if any at all, were opposed to the propositions. But Ah-nold surely has done NADA for Conservatives while in office. He's carried NADA, ZIP, ZILCH more Republicans into office during the past election. He does more to spit in the face of Conservatives since he's been in office and he keeps goose-stepping the state leftward on his watch (again, no wonder why he managed to depress turnout in key GOP areas on those ballot initiatives). Before you point to Tookie's execution as a "stellar achievement" for Ah-nold, many states with 'Rat Governors would've just as easily not stood in the way of his justified fate.
All cut from the same cloth... Anyone who thinks he or she has the right to deny me my rights is an enemy and will NOT get my vote... ever. I don't do the lesser of two evils thing.
Mike
First you say it's "Conservative's" fault, then you say it's CA voters fault, when is it ever Ah-nold's fault ?
He not only is hoping... He's down on his knees to both A.S. and his "higher power!" He has no other "French Wing" of the Republican Party candidates besides Gerald Parsky himself!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!
Leaving a wounded Davis in power to take the blame with a Republican bloc to preclude tax increases would have left us in a better position than electing Arnold.
He has been, if anything, worse than Davis.
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