Posted on 11/10/2006 9:06:56 PM PST by FairOpinion
In his victory speech Tuesday night to a confetti-swamped crowd at the Beverly Hilton, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had a message for the rest of the Republican Party after its worst defeat in decades.
Follow "the California way," he said. "We are proving to the nation that there is another way to go, a better path to solve problems."
Schwarzenegger's landslide victory in a largely Democratic state illustrates the growing power of moderate candidates and the electoral appeal of bipartisanship, and it could contain important lessons for Republicans and Democrats as they seek to position themselves in the future, analysts and politicians said.
"If I was a Republican National Committee chair, I would hire Arnold out and teach Republicans what is necessary to put together a winning campaign," said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst at the University of Southern California. "He really is the poster boy of what Republicans have denied for so long. Elections are won from the center."
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No it isn't. The FairOpinion account is simply making things up to bolster support for a liberal.
You contend that Conservatives didn't vote in California. Prove it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I already acknowledged the former in my original post to you.
FairOpinion has been caught so many times there isn't any shame left.
The FairOpinon account can't, but you knew that before asking, you sly fox.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Someone has left a mess for the next shift to clean up.
There never was.
"The conservative Republican base didn't show up.''
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If this is so,, it is likely because of the effort of Social Democrats aka Progressives aka neocentrists who openly work the threads here, in the media and within the GOP.
I must say, you are one of the more energetic FOs we have had here, I guess those 5 days in Mexixo re-energized the account , or maybe it just allowed the account time to brainstorm and re-focus your efforts to continue the charade of those in the Ca GOP who were elected and how to now do the same in national elections.
Your initial opening comments certainly would indicate you have big plans.
I'm sure you've heard of the Third Way, a Clinton -
Blair inspired effort (along with lots of international elite suppoerters) that the Gub is working hand in hand with to continue to pull the wool over the eyes of the sheople and continue the quest to retain control over fiscal and social policy and the courts.
If folks only realized the depths to which deception has been practiced the last few years, I suspect the turn-out would dramtically improve, as it is, the lower you folks have been able to keep the turn-out , the better your chances that the agenda will be successful well into the future.
The recent Global Warming legislation signings and dog and pony shows and reach-out across the ocean to our allies like Blair certainly would appear to be just one example of the kinds of relationships the Third Way will rely on to continue to accumulate additional power both economically and politically
http://www.third-way.info/index2.html
Should they succeed, it will of course be conservatives that are to blame.. How convenient a comment ... and predictable when it comes to your account and its mission here and globally.
"What we saw and felt is that this is not the year you get a bunch of Republicans holding hands on the stage saying, vote for us, we're Republicans, we're a team. Part of Gov. Schwarzenegger's appeal is that he's not part of that team."Pretty inspiring to get Republicans to the polls, huh? /s
"What works for Arnold, works for Arnold. He has star power."
He got elected by his star power.
He got re-elected because people preferred his results, compared to what they could expect from the opponent.
If he had done a bad job, the voters would have tossed him out, star power notwithstanding.
Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. By the time 1912 came, Taft got the nomination. That means that the largest number of Republicans wanted Taft. That is why I said that Taft eclipsed Roosevelt.
It was actually Taft's turn, as the nomination was for what should have been Taft's second term. Roosevelt should have stayed out of the fray as an ex-President, out to pasture, that already had been President for the bulk of two terms. As it was, Roosevelt rallied progressives to create his Bull Moose Party.
Taft went on to become the only person in our history to hold the highest office in both the Executive and Legislative branches of Government. That is why I said that Taft eclipsed Roosevelt in more ways than one. Plus Taft's very large stature and girth. Look out, there's another eclipse!<
The reason that Roosevelt felt that Taft caved in to the Rats is, because Taft leaned to much toward "Big Business" and more conservative Republicans. Roosevelt felt that Taft was not progressively liberal enough. Yet Taft went on to write the Supreme Court Decision that gave individuals the right to organize, to join a union, and to strike against companies which was lifted directly from the Communist Manifesto. Taft's decision even stated that an ex-employee could picket and libel his former employer with impunity.
As far as TR goes, he was one of the most visionary and effective Presidents we have ever had. I would have followed him to hell and back.
Roosevelt's numerous accomplishments included; The Creation of The Department of Commerce and Labor; The Pure Food and Drug Act; the Meat Inspection Act. He created the idea of Federal Land and set aside 230 million acres, a land area equivalent to that of all the East coast states from Maine to Florida. He advocated the idea for the minimum wage as a "Living Wage for Americans." He created The Twentieth Century model of the "Big Chief Executive" that every POTUS since has followed. He may be your hero but he was a progressive Big Government Socialist.
I still, but only, admire him for being a larger than life objectivist individual. For that reason, I probably would have followed him to hell and back too.
Dems Turnout Higher Than GOP For First Time Since 1990
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736750/posts
"The Democratic share of the eligible vote casting ballots for the House of Representatives increased from 16.8 percent in 2002 to 17.9 in 2006.
The Republican share declined sharply, from 19.2 percent in 2002 to 16.8 in 2006. This marks the first mid-term election since 1990 in which the Democrats garnered more votes that the GOP.
In the ballots so far counted in 2006 (and again excluding California, Oregon and Washington), citizens cast 31,703,311 votes for Democratic candidates for U.S. House, compared to 28,749,023 in 2002. The Republican candidates received 29,920,240 votes in 2006 compared with 32,771,580 in 2002."
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I don't make things up, unlike a lot of people here. I only deal in facts.
I know that. I was referring to his advice to the GOP.
Moi?
GOP turnout was low in CA?
I guess McClintock, Prop 85, and Prop 90 failed to fire up the base. (Prop 85 was about parental notification of minor abortions and Prop 90 was about eminent domain. They both lost.)
This year was horrible for GOP throughout the nation. Gov. Arnold and Steve Poizner were lucky that they won.
1994 was a bad year for Dems. That years Dems only won two statewide offices in CA.
I am disappointed that Gov Arnold did not campaign too hard for McClintock. But, I am not sure McClintock would have won with Arnold's vigorous support.
Many, who voted for Arnold, obviously didn't vote for McClintock. They probably considered Tom to be too "conservative".
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Changes appear to be comming. Plescia was just forced to retire his knee pads and Sundheim can't be far behind.
For some reason, I keep thinking of Lt. Ilia referring to the Decker Unit.
-PJ
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