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Is Schwarzenegger a Closet Democrat? (NO)
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| Sept. 3, 2006
| Joe Mathews
Posted on 09/03/2006 8:54:11 AM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: Madame Dufarge
Mental image, crime against humanity - it all melds...... If Arnold signs SB1437, it prohibits such thoughtcrime.
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posted on
09/03/2006 10:54:40 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(Angelides v. Schwarzenegger is like deciding between ebola and cancer, respectively.)
To: FairOpinion; Amerigomag; Carry_Okie; SierraWasp; kellynla; Czar; NormsRevenge; tubebender; ...
His most persistent political booster has been his mother-in-law, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a Democratic icon and sister of President Kennedy. She persuaded President George H.W. Bush to appoint Schwarzenegger as the nation's fitness czar... Definitely Democrat.
When Pete Wilson's right hand, Bob White, came to visit him on the set of "End of Days" in 1999, Schwarzenegger was cool to White's idea that he enter politics and revive the state GOP. The star instead complained about the party's support for the impeachment of President Clinton. Two years later, Schwarzenegger's political consultants sat him down in front of a camera and asked him to state his views on issues. He railed against partisan politics and laid out his plan for expanding healthcare coverage. After focus groups complained that the plan sounded like something Hillary Rodham Clinton would embrace, he dropped the idea.
This was White's way of reviving the GOP? More like destroying it!
The full article is worth a read. It was written by the author of the recently released book: "The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy."
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posted on
09/03/2006 11:06:49 AM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
To: calcowgirl
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posted on
09/03/2006 11:09:17 AM PDT
by
Mojave
To: Mojave
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posted on
09/03/2006 11:14:10 AM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
To: calcowgirl; All
Well, as usual, you have summed up the endless debate in a rather supurb documentary way with irrefutable arguments!!!
You are truly magnificent!!! Thank you!!!
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posted on
09/03/2006 11:17:44 AM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(With government as your savior from disaster, it must first be your master!!!)
To: FairOpinion; calcowgirl; SierraWasp; NormsRevenge; Amerigomag
Schwarzenegger routinely sides with business and asserts quasi-libertarian views on individual freedom. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Let's see. Did they mean that "libertarian" bill about not smoking in your car that he plans to sign? Did they mean the "libertarian" ban on cell phones while driving? How about the "libertarian" increase in the minimum wage? The "libertarian" Sierra land grab? The "libertarian" forcing "diversity" down the throats of private religious schools?
The Libertarian Party needs to sue the LA Times for defamation.
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posted on
09/03/2006 11:35:00 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(The California Republican Party needs Arnold the way a drowning man needs an anvil.)
To: SierraWasp
Did you catch the part where Arnie said the man whose views have had the most lasting influence on him was an anarchist?
LOL.
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posted on
09/03/2006 11:42:51 AM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
To: ElkGroveDan
Don't forget the "libertarian" Hydrogen Higways, Solar Roofs, Global Warming regulation...
This guy doesn't have a clue about Milton Friedman, other than that he was a cool popular guy that wanted Arnold to help tout his book (for a fee, I assume).
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posted on
09/03/2006 11:46:03 AM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
To: Bommer
"Look at his cabnet appointments, his stance on the enviorment and stem cell research."He's also pro-abortion, pro-homo agenda, anti-2nd Amendment and thinks the way out of debt is to pass even bigger debt to the next generation. It's the same old borrow/tax/spend liberal mentality.
To: FairOpinion
Arnold is a puppet. Maria tugs his strings.
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posted on
09/03/2006 7:26:14 PM PDT
by
stocksthatgoup
("Is it real? Or is it Reuters?")
To: stocksthatgoup
"Arnold is a puppet. Maria tugs his strings."
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If that were even remotely true, Arnold would have become a Democrat a long time ago -- it would have been much easier for him to run as a Dem. Yet, with all the Kennedy pressure, he remained a Republican, because he believes in the Republican principles.
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posted on
09/03/2006 8:20:02 PM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
To: FairOpinion
LOL, FO! Name ONE Republican principle Arnold subscribes to.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
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posted on
09/03/2006 8:21:04 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
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posted on
09/03/2006 8:28:59 PM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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