Posted on 03/04/2007 7:31:30 PM PST by FairOpinion
Rudy PING
You mean Arnold isn't a Dem???
Why would it be a defeat for the dems if most of them vote for Rudy?
That would be AWESOME to carry CA!
Rino Giuliani is sure to get the gay vote.
I see you are not in CA.
CA is a very blue state - the CA Legislature is overwhelmingly Democrat controlled. They keep passing the worst bills, everything from real socialized government run medicine, to drivers licenses to illegals, to legalizing homosexual marriage, to teaching that homosexuality is good to schoolchildren, to name a few.
Arnold VETOED all of that. His Dem opponents in the first election, Bustamante and second election, Angelides, are far left wing, who are on record that they would have signed these bills. Arnold saved CA, but conservatives are still too busy attacking him, while never criticizing the REAL enemy, the Democrats, to notice.
Arnold also got CA's financial house in order without raising taxes.
Arnold also may well help elect a Republican president and help defeat the Clinton machine.
You've been refining your spin,, or hired a better writer.. not sure which.. oh well,, anything for the team.
Just Win, Baby.
Indeed!
Because, if you could understand precinct voting, and numbers in even the Red States, Dem votes are needed to inch any Goper over the edge to be a winner. There are more Dems registered than Gopers. Now, one thing is known. Likely voters in both parties are close but Pubs for years have gotten their voters out. In Ca., with huge Dem numbers, Rudy could not only win but with some coatails, even bring some down ticket Pubs in with him. Arnold could not do that but on a Presidential ticket, it is possible. NJ would be another such state.
"That would be a huge defeat for the Dems"
In my book, Rudy carrying CA would be a defeat for conservatives and a "defeat" with which liberal Democrats could certainly live.
With Rudy and Arnold, as they say... birds of a feather flock together!
sounds like more Progressive thinking,, again, how much will this latest foray into the middle cost all of us long-term.. as to coat-tails, I wonder how many care to buy much more of what the Gub is selling, no matter how a previous poster spins his "accomplishments" and rams it to the rest of the base and with much glee, as you may notice,, I, for one, would feel more comfortable without him at the Gub's side.. if ya get my drift, and it isn't to the left as so many are willing to lean so readily.
Maybe Rudy can take a page from Arnold and let his liberal Democrat wife take over his administration.
Wow, never thought of that.
So your plan is to lose?
There are more than enough states where democrats are a minority to put a good conservative republican over the top, with independents and a few democrat-registered non-affiliates.
What kind of coattails do you think Rudy's going to have with republicans? If Rudy gets more moderate democrats out to vote for him, who do you think they are going to vote for down-ticket, people like Hunter?
I'm convinced Rudy would be a disaster for solidly conservative down-ticket candidates. He will definitely suppress the solid-conservative vote, and while that won't hurt him because he'll have the independents and democrats, they won't vote for our other candidates.
Conversely, if we had a solid conservative 3rd-party candidate, it might put a democrat in the white house, but also get conservatives elected down-ticket because it would bring out the solid conservatives in droves, and they WOULD vote for any non-rudyish down-ticket republican.
Of course, if we put up a lot of rudyish candidates, we might win down-ticket races. And if the state and local government races also have rudy-ish candidates brought into the process by Rudy's success in the nomination process, we could end up winning a majority control of house and senates at the state level, and completely destroy any chance of stopping gay marriage/civil unions, AND any meaningful legislation on the state level to stop abortions, much less keeping our right to have the weapons available we need to defend ourselves when the police refuse to do so.
The top of the ticket defines the down-ballot races.
I don't know if the priesthood is that into Rudy.
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I don’t know how Rudy always manages to be in the wrong (right) place at the right (wrong) time. First in the middle of 9/11 and then this battle between the social and fiscal conservatives.
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