Posted on 07/19/2006 9:11:37 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
et tu aRnold? (gasp)
Oh please raise my taxes and let illegals take over my state Mr. Rino!!!
As it is, conservatives again rule the Republican slate: Richard Mountjoy for U.S. Senate, Tom McClintock for lieutenant governor, Chuck Poochigian for attorney general, Tony Strickland for controller, Claude Parrish for treasurer.
Thank goodness. Maybe we can get this state out of the tax and spend, illegal immigrant hellhole it has become thanks to the Democrats and RINOS.
Never apologize, especially when you're RIGHT!
This is a BS description of moderate republicans.
Moderate republicans are ambivalent about abortion, are against gay marriage but otherwise have a live and let live attitude, want honest govt., are luke warm on tax cuts, REALLY WANT LAW AND ORDER AND LOW CRIME, good roads, good public schools, good public colleges, clean enviroment but with some common sense, are christian but like to keep that to themselves, want manners and decent language, mostly want to be left alone, are for fewer illegals, want to work at a decent job, are ambivalent about gun control.
They are people you would like to have as neighbors, but not all that politically active.
"Our governor cares about one thing only, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger," Maldonado told the Times.
Maldonado later apologized."
Just like a true "moderate".
Your comment about rinos is out of line.
rinos just want to have a decent life for them and their kids and are practical and not ideological and what the hell is wrong with that.
Because it doesn't work. Social liberalism creates the demand for the welfare state. Social liberalism destroys families and therefore breeds crime and dependency. To claim to be a social liberal and a fiscal conservative is to ask "other people" to deal with the costs.
Mountjoy will lose big (even he knows this), Poochigan will probably lose, but McClintock is a very viable candidate.
What are Claude Parrish's chances?
The moderates aren't about making a bigger tent. They are about pitching the tent in a new spot and leaving the old base out in the cold.
With such staunch right-wingers on the ballot as Gary Mendoza, Ruben Barrales, Tom Campbell etc. etc.?
Once again their nice theoy is full of holes. We nominate RINOs all the time and they always do far worse than conservatives.
The GUb has openly stated that "It is not my job to grow the California Republican party",, make of that what you will.
Many long time conservatives in the base see thru the charade that unfolded the last few years in the CA GOP.
We may be sunk for 4 more years, but at least the moderate hemorrhage may be curtailed (tho the runaway spending is another thing) until 2010 if the pressure is kept is kept on and enough seats in the state Assembly and Senate stay GOP and conservative.
You don't know the same "moderate" Republicans I do, and unfortunately I know a lot of them. In fact they are as extremist on abortion as the Democrats. They think gay marriage is just fine when you talk to them, but won't say it in public.
As for taxes and fiscal concerns I have it from the horse's mouth from ARNOLD's campaign strategists this past Wednesday that he is taking heat from the New Majority folks in Orange County for NOT wanting to raise taxes. Yes, these are the folks who call themselves FISCAL CONSERVATIVES.
There is nothing moderate about them. They are liberals, period.
You can take Claude off that list.
If they are as you describe, I wouldn't want them as neighbors. You described a person who doesn't care one way or the other about infanticide, self defense, or governmental control of large parts of his income. The rest of your description fits someone who is self absorbed about personal needs and wants, but totally out of touch about what the government is actually doing to address them.
His indifference and disengaged attitude is what lets the RINOs operate with impunity, because he either doesn't care or never bothers too look at what the guys he votes for are actually doing. He, and his disengaged Dem opposite, is the reason that incumbents can redline out safe districts and make a career out of sucking public teat.
Good for Arnold!
It's so, so sad!
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