Arnold has been Machiavellian -- working with the Dems, giving them lots of small victories, which allowed him to hold the line and veto important stuff: no raising taxes, vetoing universal healthcare, homosexual marriage, vetoing drivers licenses for illegals, passed workman's comp, etc.
National Republicans need to follow his example: talk bipartisanship, give Dems small victories, but hold the line on important stuff, all along telling the people what you are doing, so they understand that you are working hard to be bipartisan, but there are important issues, where the Republicans are right, Dems are wrong, and why.
If Republicans learn these Machiavellian lessons, they will recapture Congress in 2008 and elect a Republican president.
Shut up.
california is hardly a red state
I know that Arnold is an extremely liberal Republican, verging on the Democrat, but he has turned into a master politician and does manage a very difficult state from which so many of the 'Rat leaders hail. In short, you just can't argue with his success and maybe he does have a winning formula. It'd be really stupid to ignore him and his methods.
Don't be a girly-man, Arnold. Seriously, what do you expect from a man married into the Kennedys?
Some relevant Vince Lombardi quotes:
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. "
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. "
"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it. "
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. "
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. "
He wants us to terminate the party, how quaint. Courting the center contributed to the current mess.
What works for Arnold, works for Arnold. He has star power.
I know where your going with this, but it reaks to high heaven.
Arnold won because his opponent had no chance of winning. The guy was a socialist moonbat trainwreck. The other option was another Gray Davis with a different name. California was heading in the same economic direction of France ecomonically before Arnie came in and stopped the collapse.
While Arnold had to sell half his soul to get elected again, I would not even begin to compare California's issues with the rest of the US.
Arnold won, but it was only because the person he was running against was aweful in every way.
The GOP will not sit back and take this. It was a wake up call and in 2008, hopefully, they will have the candidates and strategy to regain control.
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil." -- Ayn Rand
"Conservatism works every time it's tried." -- Rush Limbaugh
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything" -- unknown
Whatever happened to voting for what you believe in?
Arno the RINO is part of the problem on national level. Thank God he can't run from President.
The Senate can be recaptured in 2008, The House made closer, and a GOP President elected.
Were it not for the Constitution, Arnold would be the next president - and he'd win in a cakewalk. His advice ought not be dismissed lightly...
With all respect this isn't a movie we are making to appeal to the most people. Our existence is at stake and we better do more than play footsie with persons that will bring our destruction.
Intransigence and the Veto must be the order-of-the-day!