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Governor: Wait on '08-He discloses no preference for president, saying there are good GOP candidates
Sacramento Bee ^ | 1/18/7 | Kevin Yamamura

Posted on 01/18/2007 10:27:22 AM PST by SmithL

After declaring himself a proud Republican last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hedged his answers Wednesday when asked whether he will endorse a Republican in the 2008 presidential race.

The governor remained coy about his presidential preferences in his annual Sacramento Press Club appearance while insisting California should play a greater role in shaping national politics by moving up the state's primary next year from June to February.

Schwarzenegger, a celebrity governor in the nation's most populous state, could affect the presidential race by campaigning on behalf of a candidate.

"We have to look at all the candidates and just listen to them very carefully," he responded to a question about whether he would consider Democrats alongside Republicans when picking a presidential candidate.

Schwarzenegger said he would consider views on health care, the environment and immigration as criteria for his presidential choice. Pressed further on whether he might endorse a Democrat, Schwarzenegger said, "No, I'm not leaving that impression. I'm just saying that we all should look at all the candidates. Because this room here is filled with Democrats and Republicans and independents and decline-to-state."

The governor is ineligible to run for president because he was not born in the United States.

The governor in 2004 stumped for President Bush in Ohio, where Schwarzenegger is popular. Democrats used 2004 footage of Schwarzenegger chanting Bush's name in attack ads last year in an attempt to weaken his support among Democrats and independents.

Schwarzenegger intends to travel to a few places to support his chosen candidate. In an ABC News interview that aired Sunday, Schwarzenegger called three Republicans terrific: former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani; U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Giuliani and McCain have launched exploratory efforts, and some have pushed Bloomberg...

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; rino; rinold; schwarzenegger
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"I'm not leaving that impression. I'm just saying that we all should look at all the candidates." - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pressed whether he might endorse a Democrat for president


1 posted on 01/18/2007 10:27:24 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL
After declaring himself a proud Republican last week,

That has got to be the funniest thing I heard today.

2 posted on 01/18/2007 10:28:34 AM PST by Long Island Pete
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To: SmithL

He's always endorsed and campainged for the GOP.


3 posted on 01/18/2007 10:30:51 AM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: SmithL

Arnold and John McCain relaxing in the sun


4 posted on 01/18/2007 10:32:08 AM PST by Paloma_55 (I may be a hateful bigot, but I still love you)
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To: Long Island Pete

The Austrian calling himself a Republican is political cross dressing.


5 posted on 01/18/2007 10:32:21 AM PST by NeoCaveman (good luck beats early rising)
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To: SmithL

"We have to look at all the candidates and just listen to them very carefully,"


...that's what a lot of "independants" did for their 2006 vote. Just wait 'til they see what they've done. With the exception of Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman, ALL dems are liars. Swarzeneggar is an idiot.


6 posted on 01/18/2007 10:36:08 AM PST by albie
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"...that's what a lot of "independants" did for their 2006 vote. Just wait 'til they see what they've done. With the exception of Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman, ALL dems are liars. Swarzeneggar is an idiot."

And Republicans are STILL clueless.


7 posted on 01/18/2007 11:17:11 AM PST by Scarlet Pimpernel
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To: onyx

I wish he would just come out for McCain and get it over with and quit the pretenses, too much of his reign is being played out like a melodrama as is, imo.


8 posted on 01/18/2007 11:38:29 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... California 2007,, Where's a script re-write guy when ya need 'em?)
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To: onyx
He's always endorsed and campainged for the GOP.

That is just flat out wrong!

He refused to endorse the candidate for US Senate, Dick Mountjoy. He refused to voice support for Richard Pombo. He refused to campaign for McClintock, Poochigian, even the moderate McPherson, instead sliming McClintock while on the campaign trail. He went so far as to have Republican campaign signs removed from the wall so the media wouldn't take pictures of him with a possible "McClintock for Lt. Gov." sign in the background. Support him if you like, but please be honest about his actions.

9 posted on 01/18/2007 12:21:41 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl

ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL, WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS ARTICLE.


10 posted on 01/18/2007 12:24:00 PM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

McCain or Guiliani. Bloomberg? ROTFLOL


11 posted on 01/18/2007 12:24:48 PM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: SmithL
After declaring himself a proud Republican last week

Talk is cheap.

12 posted on 01/18/2007 12:26:09 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Circumstances are the fire by which the mettle of men is tried.)
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He refused to endorse the candidate for US Senate, Dick Mountjoy.

He may have been a fine candidate but what kind of a loving parent would name their child that?

13 posted on 01/18/2007 12:27:34 PM PST by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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To: onyx

Congress and the Senate aren't the "national level" (Pombo and Mountjoy)?


14 posted on 01/18/2007 1:06:56 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl

Of course they're not the same. Even you KNOW that.


15 posted on 01/18/2007 1:12:47 PM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: NeoCaveman

Anybody catch this recent sound bite from Warren Beatty:

"I don't know why they can't just do what I ask them to do. I asked Arnold (Schwarzenegger) to become a Democrat and he did what I said," Beatty said, to laughter and applause.


16 posted on 01/18/2007 1:14:07 PM PST by JZelle
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To: onyx
In other words, when you said "He's always endorsed and campainged for the GOP", you really meant he supported Bush a couple times?
17 posted on 01/18/2007 1:24:35 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Paloma_55

LMAO! Yeah, they are a pair, aren't they?


18 posted on 01/18/2007 3:21:32 PM PST by bushfamfan (DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRES. 2008)
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>> He refused to endorse the candidate for US Senate, Dick Mountjoy. He refused to voice support for Richard Pombo. He refused to campaign for McClintock, Poochigian, even the moderate McPherson, instead sliming McClintock while on the campaign trail. He went so far as to have Republican campaign signs removed from the wall so the media wouldn't take pictures of him with a possible "McClintock for Lt. Gov." <<

You forgot poor Tan Nyugen, who Arnold tried to force out of the race so Loretta Sanchez would run unopposed. Ironically, the "unelectable" Nyugen got close to 40% with GOP leaders stabbing him in the back, meaning he polled far better than the last couple of party-endorsed candidates who ran against Sanchez, like Chavez (34% of the vote), and so forth.

It's interesting that Arnold's supporters equated any non-endorsement for Arnold as "working for the Democrat", but they have no problem with Arnold failing to endorse a fellow Republican. The double-standard was exposed her when not one Arnold supporter complained that Arnold was "working for Sanchez" by failing to endorse Nyuguen and their "straight-ticket Republican" agenda.

It could be worse, RINO Arlen Specter won the primary with conservative freepers arguing he would somehow "deliver Pennsylvania to Bush", then in the general election, he avoided using the word "Republican" on any campaign literature or commercials -- and even his campaign staff put up "SPECTER & KERRY FOR WORKING FAMILIES" signs. Specter of course, denies that he gave them permission to do that.

Personally I think Arnold will give token support to the Republican presidential candidate if it's one of the three "moderate" frontrunner's (McCain/Giuliani/Romney), though I wouldn't be surprised to see him sit it out if the party nominates one of those eeeeeeeeeevil "unelectable" conservatives like California's own Duncan Hunter. Arnold doesn't want to be seen even mentioning the candidacy of a "right-wing crazy".

He might try what the RINOs do here in Illinois. Get on the stage with a conservative Republican, hug them, take their money, promise to support them "100%", then embrace for their liberal Democrat opponent the following week. It worked for Judy Baar Topinka... until she ran for Governor and sought support from all the Republicans she double-crossed.

19 posted on 01/18/2007 4:24:46 PM PST by BillyBoy (Don't blame Illinois for Pelosi -- we elected ROSKAM)
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To: BillyBoy
and sought support from all the Republicans she double-crossed.

They're coming around:

McClintock, the GOP candidate for lieutenant governor last year, says Schwarzenegger has left him "very disillusioned and disappointed. The reason I supported him — and a lot of other voters did — was because of his ironclad, clear promise that he would not raise taxes. "It's the last time I'll ever trust anything he says."

20 posted on 01/18/2007 8:35:22 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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