Posted on 01/13/2006 4:35:43 PM PST by FairOpinion
A recent poll shows the born-again "moderate" Republican governor has gained back some popularity, especially in the Bay Area, and is now in a dead heat with Democratic competitors.
"Our survey demonstrates that Schwarzenegger's retreat from the more conservative rhetoric and agenda he brandished during the latter part of 2005 has paid off among middle-of-the road voters," said Melinda Jackson, director of the Survey and Policy Research Institute at San Jose State University.
The governor's job performance rating among voters in a Democrat-leaning state has climbed from 36 percent positive and 53 percent negative in September, to 40 percent positive and 51 percent negative this month.
(Excerpt) Read more at insidebayarea.com ...
Make your plan! All yer boards are belong to us!!!
I'd like to know who Arnolds appointments were to the Central Committee, i'll bet it would be very enlightning.
Whadda you mean, "Rolling On The Floor?" Abe couldn't do dat cause he had four on the floor!!!
That calcowgirl sure dug up a purdy Reagan quote! Perfection!!!
There are more where that came from!
“We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all.”
— Ronald Reagan, 1965
Don't lavish too much praise on him. He's the one that drove off all the trolls and now we can't play.
Basically, I was questioning your lack of confidence which manifests as you to overstate, use shouting bold, multiple exclamation points and insults in lieu of rational response. To thinking people this indicates a basic insecurity. Such insecurity must have deep roots.
While we are quoting Reagan:
Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.
"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960104/posts
Well stated. If you were here in 2002, you remember that there were conservatives on FR that rationalized voting for Arnold, using (in my view) very tortured reasoning. Now conservatives my wonder, privately, why they bothered. Arnold is and has always been a leftist that simply couldn't stomach the soft anti-Americanism and in-your-face arrogance of the New Left Democrats. A sound conservative ideology that is not.
And I agree with that! But...
1) People on this thread are not "radical conservatives" andThere is a huge difference.
2) Arnold is not "compromising" he is capitulating.
Yes... that was the summer/fall of 2003 and I was here. Some of the same posters offering up torutured reasoning then have offered the same or similar arguments on this thread. But now, there are two-plus years of actions which allow for a more objective evaluation of the candidate--that record does not speak well for the candidate or the party.
I think if he wants to remain on the taxpayer dollar he must win the Lt. Governor position, right?
Was he going to have to leave the other position due to term limits?
McClintock was not a major factor in Davis going down, Davis was.
If you are suggesting you would NOT vote in the major election for the Republican, then you are being a Democrat in that election.
You can only say that after the fact with confidence. One Democrat against two republicans does split the conservative vote.
As far as people who would refuse to back Arnold if McClintock dropped out, well they would be totally useless to anyone with their limited thinking. They would not be the solution for conservatives in California at all, they would be the typical problem that Democrats depend on to self destruct.
I'm mot talking big tents, I'm saying only that you challenge in the primaries with strange votes if you wish, but in the actual election you always vote and for the Republican.
Anything else would be a waste of your vote in favor of getting a Democrat elected.
Upon what authority have you declared the world's sixth largest economy "dead"?
The CA economy needs priming.
No, it needs to have it's regulatory chokehold loosened. Unfortunately, Arnold makes that situation considerably worse, that is, for everybody but his socialist, er, "centrist" friends.
The recent flapnoodle over the solar energy debate? Does anyone besides me remember that President Bush has allocated funds for this? This means.. fed dollars are coming into CA, and with it, accountability measures. for one example.
Have you really studied the payback on solar? It's lousy. Further, you are effectively asking the Federal government to borrow money from the Chinese so that they can make solar cells that require more energy to build and install than they are worth.
You call that priming an economy? Please.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.