Posted on 06/20/2006 8:52:46 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is leaving open the possibility of backing Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein for re-election, despite an impassioned appeal from her GOP rival, former state Sen. Dick Mountjoy.
Schwarzenegger surprised his Republican backers shortly after the primary when he said he would have no problem endorsing a Democrat for office this year. "If I like someone, absolutely,'' he said at a June 8 campaign stop in Antioch.
While the governor didn't name any names, Steve Schmidt, his campaign manager, wasn't quite so circumspect.
"Like most Californians, (Schwarzenegger) thinks Dianne Feinstein is a great senator,'' Schmidt said.
While Schwarzenegger has made a blanket endorsement of the other Republicans on the statewide ticket, he has pointedly left the Senate seat out of the mix.
The governor "has not made an endorsement in the Senate race,'' Julie Soderlund, a spokeswoman for Schwarzenegger's campaign, said Friday. "We have nothing to announce at this time.''
The governor's reluctance to back Mountjoy has made a tough campaign even more of a longshot. The 74-year-old Monrovia (Los Angeles County) resident only jumped into the race after Republicans failed to recruit a better-known candidate and finds himself running far behind Feinstein in the polls and the quest for campaign cash.
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It's all the conservatives fault , moderates and dems are ruthless, any good republican much less conservative ones should and are repulsed by the attitude that those now in power are infallible.
That has to change and quick or we truly will have a one party system. Frankly, my gut feel is we already do here in California.
And that is the problem with the so-called "GOP strategy." As Sundheim implied last year (see post 21), he thinks ideology is no longer important--it is only "winning" that matters. The big-government, big-spending, big-borrowing agenda is being embraced by these infiltrators. This new "pragmatic" party will serve no one but themselves. It's time to throw the bums out and return the Republican party to one that stands for something!
What was Tom Campbell?????
It's just as likely to cost him votes. I know for certain of two voters that will consider that the final straw.
Or Bill Jones, for that matter!!!
Does this guy really have a chance at being Governor? I think he's a front for the Mexican government.
I don't know, but he sure seems to be cozy with all the L.A. power brokers.
Any traditional Republican voices seem to be MIA.
Bill who? Campaign? What campaign?
Say wha...??? Yew tawlkin ta me???
LOL.
What I meant was, there was such an absence of a campaign that it's hard to remember who Bill Jones was
(Yes, I'm exaggerating a little--but not much!)
I contend, again, that this is not what you've written off, this is your goal.
Its good when others perceive the agenda of the ilk.
Care to place a bet on how much state spending increases the next few years under either Schwarzenegger or
Angelides?
Your record of support is nothing to crow about either.
Obfuscate all you like, but he's right, you're the consistent one. Consistent at heckling, that is. Y'know, undermining the CA GOP strategy base. I can just picture you completing newzdude's prediction, "Look, they couldn't win!". LOL
Please define what that means.
Unlike you, I want no stinkin' demoncraps to win a dang thing.
PS
It's clear what the (M)ilk's agenda is,, support big spenders and big borrowers.
...and those who do not oppose the homosexual agenda.
Please define what that means.
To me this means the GOPers we need, plus the wishy washy, easily swayed, completely unreliable, often unwashed, middleground. They aren't GOP, but they're needed in the strategy to win.
This leads again to Newzjunky's observation that your goal (my words) is to divide first the GOP. With division within the GOP the middleground will never follow. But, you know that, don't you?
Boy, that's gonna smart not being able to vote for Moonbeam again, huh? (Or is Poochigian too conservative for you too?)
Who says I'm voting for any democrat, btw?
Dang, it doesn't get much better than this! The faux-bull is inferring that I support the homosexual agenda. What a hoot! Doesn't get much more unsavory than that.
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