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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Pesky facts.
"This value voter voted Republican."
Then you are a smart conservative.
But a large number of conservatives stayed home, and they are responsible for the Dem victory. The Dems didn't really win, the Republicans lost, but we still have a Dem Congress, which helps the Dems in the presidential election in 2008, in addition to all the damage they will cause in the next two years.
"Just go away"
Are you very happy that we lost?
Do you want to do what it takes to win, or insist on continuing to lose?
Pelosi won, because the Dems gained control of the House.
Lieberman: lifetime ACU rating --- 17%
Nelson --- 53%
Boren --- 64%
I pray that there will be none who fall for a horrific scenario:
That they must compromise and swallow such an amendment and presidential candidate as Arnold 'because only he could help us keep Hillary out of the White House'
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.
They do this in the WWF and as a result Minnesota got a wrestler/actor as their governor.
Wisdom from "the Land of Fruits and Nuts"?
Put down the crack pipe. Pelosi didn't run in a statewide election - - she ran in her little district in San Fransicko. A foul toilet brimming with scum..
Maybe Lieberman isn't truly center-right, but any Democrat who gives the Moonbat Left conniption fits is all right by me.
I agree with your "right way to court the center." It needs to be the Right's way to court the Center.
The "land of fruits and nuts" is the home site of FR. Care to continue?
As a matter of fact, if you ever look at an election map of CA (which I used to have saved) you will see that CA is a red state, but for heavily populated pockets of democrat strong holds.
Arnold is not running for President, he can't because he was not born in the US.
If he could and beat Hillary, don't you think he would be a thousand times preferable to President Hillary?
"Chief" Wallace Newman, USC football star (1923 Rose Bowl) and Whittier College coach.
Pelosi won the SPEAKER position, because the Dems took control of Congress.
I was not talking about winning her district and it was pretty obvious what I was talking about.
They adore him --- he votes with them on EVERYTHING except the WOT and policies effecting Israel.
Yahh, well, conservatives will now have to deal with a democrat run house and senate.
They handed the election them, so they now they can sit in the stew they created by pouting and staying at home.
Maybe after 2 years of Pelosi and whoever the dems make leader of the Senate, the conservaties will get motivated, instead of pouting in their chairs at home about how the curent GOP somehow wronged them.
Low taxes
Agressive foreign policy on the war on terror
Great economy
Low unemployment
Highly qualified, conservative judges elected to the Supreme court
Bush's agenda continuely pushed from the whitehouse
And they sat at home pouting saying their leadership had foresaken them???????
They want to pout in 2008, then the are going to have to deal with President Hillary till 2012. Maybe the thought of that might wake them up and get them out to the election booths.
Wisdom from "the Land of Fruits and Nuts"?
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Yes, indeed.
Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)
An American Life (his autobiography) | 8/7/03 | Ronald Reagan
When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.
"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
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