Posted on 09/04/2006 10:19:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
I don't recall even being in a situation where the closer Election Day gets, the less likely I am to vote for the GOP nominee.
Yet, that is where I find myself vis-a-vis Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I'm one of many conservatives who voted for Arnold in the recall, despite my preference for Tom McClintock. I found the prospect of Cruz Bustamante in the governor's office horrifying and wasn't convinced McClintock could win. The stakes so too high I though it prudent to back the Republican with the best chance of winning, and so I cast my vote for Arnold. Like other conservatives, I comforted myself with the rumor we'd heard for years that Arnold was really a libertarian. So, although he was squishy on the social issues, at least he'd be hard core on taxes, spending and freedom issues. After all, he was a Milton Friedman fan!
But ever since the Governor's nauseating policy of apologizing for the special election of 2005, it's been steadily more difficult to assembly a conservative Republican rationale for supporting his re-election.
He's signed a non-aggression pact with the government employee unions, promising he will never, ever again try to rein in their power. He talks a big game about building infrastructure, but is unable to just come out and support an infrastructure plan -- the 241 toll road completion in Orange County -- that has been EIRed and is ready to go.
This alleged acolyte of Milton Friedman signs an "anti-greenhouse gases" bill that will have no impact on the climate but will have negative impacts on California's economic competitiveness. And this is the same guy who tells every Republican crowd the same story about how he left Austria to escape its stultifying socialism -- even as he signs neo-Euro socialist bills like the emissions cap. I thought we elected a Republican as Governor during the rcall - not Al Gore.
Since being beaten by the government employee unions and adopting the Stoclkholm Syndrone as his political survival strategy, the Governor easgerly signs any minimum wage bill the Democrats send his way -- even though he knows they are job destroyers. He knows this, and yet signs them with a smile, anyway.
Old arguments employed to keep conservatives in line like "he's good on judges" hold no water when it comes to the Schwarzenegger Administration. Yes, he's appointed more Republicans than Gray Davis, but Republicans expect something more than appointing more Republican judges than your Democratci predecessor did. For example, how about no appointing public defedners who are proud of their qualifications to defend Serbian war crimninals at The Hague?
The Governor signed the latest in Sheila Kuehl's endless succession of "gay rights" bills -- SB 1441. Did the Governor actually read this bill?:
The bill would also expand the definition of discrimination under these provisions to include a perception that a person has any of these enumerated characteristics or that the person is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of these characteristics.
I would really love to hear the Governor affirm that he actually read that dangerous claptrap -- nothing is objectively real because reality is nothing more than perception -- and thought it was legislation that must be signed.
Everyday, I get e-mails from the Governor's re-election campaign. And I am trying to think of a single one that has, for even a moment, made me feeel proud Arnold Schwarzenegger is my party's nominee for Governor. And I can't think of a one. What I do remember are press releases bragging how Gov. Schwarzenegger is spending more money on education than anybody ever has in state history. Yessir -- that's why I became a Republican! To throw record sums of taxpayer dollars on failed government programs.
Perhaps the reader can detect the depth of my ever-deepening disenchantment with the Schwarzenegger Administration. Not that it really matters, because the Governor will be re-elected. He's blessed with a Democratic opponent who is a living caricature of the liberal excesses of his party and who gifted the Schwarzenegger campaign with his calls for billions in new taxes.
The Governor triangulates, buys off key Democratic special interests, adopts Democratic policies, and keeps enough conservatives in line by stoking their Fear of an Angelides Planet. He will win, and the Republican Party will find itself victorious in gubernatorial race but lacking a soul.
I think it was George Washington who said that a political party without principles is nothing more than a conspiracy to hold power. I'm afraid that is what is happening to the California Republican Party under the administration of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that is why I have gone from being a unapologetic supporter of his election in the recall to being undecided about whether I'll vote to re-elect him.
Absolute bovine feces. The press celebrated his first act when he borrowed his way out of a cash flow bind with Prop 58. He promised to "cut up the credit cards" and had 60% approval ratings. It was only when it became apparent he had no intention of keeping his promises to control spending that his reputation began to slide. His ballot propositions, supposedly directed toward that end, were proven by the LAO to be hardly such.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
You have a short memory. The special election was long after Arnold had already blown his cover and established that he was all about posturing, not substance. The budgets he submittted alienated his base right away. That base saw right through his bogus propositions and didn't fall for them. This is evidenced by the fact that the one proposition that came closest to passage was the one requiring parental notification prior to an abortion. It was also a proposition which Arnold did not include in his campaign.
The mediots attacked Reagan too, and look at the margins by which he was re-elected.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
A year ago he was a RINO. Now he's a socialist.
Good, prescient stuff. Thanks, darlin'.
I'm sure Schwarzenegger will say he was briefed on how tough it will be. When he loses, he'll depict himself as a martyr who was pilloried, he'll say something about turnout, who knows what. But no reporters will ever ask the hard questions about how and why this guy's own team destroyed him, and the really hard questions about what their polling showed -- months ago, as well as more recently. It's like Lungren 98 -- everyone will forget that the polling either was entirely incompetent, with absurd voter turnout models, or just plain fraudulent. There was no other explanation back then.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
Villargarosa [who-dinky] announced his support for Angelides today, according to KFI.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
no one can fake their IP address. Its a dead giveaway.
And thereby so did Nunez since he's Villar's campaign manager.
Hopefully no offense to the AmeriBrit account , but we're frequently forced to correct revisionists who visit our house. They are victims not perps. They're continuously swamped with misinformation from the CAGOP account.
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