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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Even so, national average voter turnout for a midterm is around 39% over the last three decades. CA is up from that.
BTW, this election proved my theory correct again for the success of RINO Governors passing off the office to a Conservative, or another Republican.
AR-RINO Huckabee to 'Rat Beebe
CO-RINO Owens to 'Rat Ritter
MA-RINO Romney to Moonbat 'Rat Patrick
NY-RINO Pataki to 'Rat Spitzer
OH-RINO Taft to 'Rat Strickland
Idaho was the sole successful Conservative GOP pass-off. Nevada was the sole successful RINO to RINO pass-off from Guinn to Gibbons.
"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
As the purpose of the absentee ballot changed from necessity to convenience, the tradition of Tuesday elections makes a Monday post mark acceptable to all but a few Election Commissioners regardless of when the ballot arrives and, of course, many simply turn in their absentee ballots at the polls on election day.
The result is a flood of last minute ballots, unrepresentative exit poll sampling and accurate vote totals that lag election day by as much as weeks.
Compounding this problem will be electronic voting machines which will motivate many to seek the paper trail security of the absentee ballot.
You are messing with my head. PRI means Primary Rate Interface, otherwise known as a T-1 DSL. From the context, I guess that's not what it means to you.
Conservatism is not about a rigid, puritannical point of view. National security, low taxes, smaller government, individual freedom-these are things that got people to vote Republican in the past. If the GOP stops pandering to people who want to tell others how to live their lives, they'll resume the winning streak they had under Reagan and Gingrich.
Like MurryMom, the FO account serves a role here on FR. If for no other reason than it gets you to post all sorts of info I'm too lazy to look up myself. It is also useful for smoking out the fellow travelers and useful idiots; sort of a litmus test.
"While the other Republicans were wasting their time with the straw-man argument of gay marriage, Arnold was actually doing what he was elected to do."
The problem wasn't that Republicans opposed gay-marriage. That was the right (and winning, by the way), position. The problem was that they didn't do anything else...
"Audit everything" and end the excessive state government spending and waste occurring under Davis?
When did he do that?
No surprise there. And once again, that crap never works. If it did, we'd have a string of electoral successes from coast to coast and Massachusetts would be Nirvana. RINOs like Ah-nold are the gift that keeps on giving... to the rodent left (and Aztlan Tony Villar might as well get an early start by measuring for the drapes). I'd also feel safe in stating openly that I think Ah-nold is quite happy to have John Garamendi as Lt Governor. McClintock was always far too dangerous for Ah-nold to have as #2, he was honest and intelligent. Sad to say, but TM was far too good for California (present company excepted ;-)).
BTW, is Steve Poizner a RINO or a Conservative ? I'm momentarily forgetting.
But there must be Primary Objectives that we have and are executing day by day in the WOT. Anytime we have a success in one of those it must be trumpeted to the people till everyone is talking about it.
We may not be able to give details but if a terrorist attack is successfully thwarted it needs to be pounded on.
Any successes military no matter how small or insignificant they may seem must be blasted out.
How about all the good news that SandRat posts day after day. I think Republicans could be better at getting that news out. Especially by the leaders in Washington. Patriotic stories should be thrust upon the media till every lib journalist is puking! =)
I think, more accurately, FO's pitch is:
To be a winning Republican is to believe in everything you once opposed.
"Conservatism is not about a rigid, puritannical point of view. National security, low taxes, smaller government, individual freedom-these are things that got people to vote Republican in the past."
BINGO! Hit the nail on the head!
It's kinda hard to start crunching numbers when they keep changing them, lol. I still don't see any indication that Conservatives didn't vote.
In looking at the numbers, it looks to me like about 700,000 Dems voted for Arnold instead of Angelides. During the Recall, Arnold and McClintock combined got 62% of the vote, both running on a fiscally conservative agenda (Cruz got 31%). By comparison, Arnold now got only 50% of the vote (Angelides 39%), despite moving far, far to the left.
He contributed to the DNC and the Gore recount fund.
After watching Arnold stab McClintock in the back at the 11th hour, there should be no doubt that he does not intend on handing anything at all off to conservatives. He and Boxer will be pushing Global Warming legislation nationwide. He and Perata will be doling out billions in bond money, much of which will head Villaraigosa's way for his pet projects.
Check out his Victory Speech that I transcribed...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733986/posts?page=405#405
What that makes him is anybodies guess.
Greyout Davis could have beat Angelides.
Arnold = open borders, no tax cuts, massive bond debt, skyrocketing spending and bigger state government..
I realize it's a long way from WV to CA, so you may not be up on what Arnold has actually been doing, as opposed to what his national press kit says. Trust me when I tell you he has not advanced any of the things you list. We have less security and more illegal aliens, bigger state government with still bigger revenue gap, and assaults on property rights, RKBA, etc. Don't even ask me how much his pet junk science programs are gonna cost us, but it starts at $6 billion and goes up from there. He's committed CA to the Kyoto protocols, regardless of the cost to the nonexistent benefits.
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