Arnold's "No New Taxes" Rhetoric Was Just That - All Talk

FlashReport ^ | 9-18-2007 8:16 am | Jon Fleischman

[Badeye]

(chuckle)

SD, LA, SF, some of the wine country to the northeast of SF on a few occasions, and a couple of trips to San Luis.

(note I was responding ‘in kind’ to the posters funny comments about Ohio)

[Badeye]

I’ve met idiots and deviants from all political parties and in the military in my life.

Never have I met so many of them as I have in California.

Never.

[Rick_Michael]

I didn’t and wouldn’t vote for him; but I don’t understand why people are always on taxes,...rather than spending. Cut spending...hell, even I wouldn’t mind paying higher taxes if spending is cut in the long-run. It just makes more sense to start with the spending first.

[goldstategop]

The percentage of Democrats has steadily eroded. The bad news is the surviving Democrats are reliably left of center and many of the decline to state independents are much the same. The GOP share of the state electorate has remained constant for decades.

"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 Palelologus

[potlatch]

Green man bump!!

[potlatch]

Credit where credit’s due.

[devolve]

.

LOL!

“Credit where credit is due”

Good one!

[potlatch]

[Good one!]

Lol, sometimes it happens!

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

There's one thing Ohio's got that California doesn't --Badeye.

[freedomdefender]

Not surprise here. We were warned. Some chose not to listen and to become Arnoldbots - and some Arnoldbots even chose to slime those of us who could see through the Austrian and supported McClintock. So, where are the apologies now? I guess being a “pragmatist” means never having to say you’re sorry.

[Lurker]

California gave the Republican nominee 5.5 million votes in the last presidential election

How many Electoral College votes did that add up to?

L

[bubbacluck]

Isn’t Congressman Murtha from Ohio?

[Badeye]

I watched that election cycle and the primaries before it, from here in Ohio, and on another political website (now gone totally kook). And I remember those that desperately wanted McClintock to be the nominee, not Arnold.

I didn’t think McClintock could win a statewide race for Governor, and nothing I’ve seen or heard from him has changed that viewpoint.

It doesn’t matter who the nominee is in California. Its a very unique political enviroment, one where a relative tiny union (prison guards union) has enormous clout statewide, for example.

I just don’t see how you can elect a bonafide conservative in the state the way things stood then, or stand now.

[Badeye]

Hey, its the multi site kook!

(chuckle)

Now, call me a newbie...and hope nobody checks your veracity like last time.

[calcowgirl]

The bad news is the surviving Democrats are reliably left of center

You mean like the communists of the 1940s, 50s and 60s? Or the farmworkers and Cesar Chavez? Or Tom Hayden and the 60s anti-war activists? Or the free speech movement? (etc. etc. etc.) Not much has really changed except Republicans seem to have adopted a defeatist attitude.

and many of the decline to state independents are much the same.

Many are also freepers and disaffected Republicans... and decidedly NOT left of center.

[kellynla]

Larry Elder & I tried to warn everyone in 2003, you can’t be a social liberal & a fiscal conservative at the same time.
Ya gotta pay for all those social programs some how.

I won’t say “I told you so.”

Too bad everyone who said they were going to vote for Tom McClintock in 2003 didn’t.
As it is, after three more years of RINOld, the CA GOP won’t be able to get a dog catcher elected to statewide office for at least another ten years.

[goldstategop]

There's some truth to what you say. With the Reagan Democrats gone, its a more liberal electorate. But its not overwhelmingly so. Democrats receive around 55% of the vote statewide. The reason Republicans don't have the number of seats proportionate to their vote share is due to gerrymandering. Imagine how much real clout the CAGOP would have in the State Legislature if it had 45% instead of one third plus one or two of the seats.

"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 Palelologus

[dashing doofus]

I just think that when the unions run the show, like in California, it doesn’t matter that much who is elected.

The only thing you can do vote initiatives to “starve the beast,” but the union memember will make sure THEY get paid, even while your services are reduced to nil.

[calcowgirl]

I watched that election cycle and the primaries before it, from here in Ohio, and on another political website (now gone totally kook). And I remember those that desperately wanted McClintock to be the nominee, not Arnold. I didn’t think McClintock could win a statewide race for Governor, and nothing I’ve seen or heard from him has changed that viewpoint.

Did you watch, as the CA GOP starved McClintock's campaign of support and dollars (allowing ARnold and his liberal machine to take over the GOTV effort)? Did you watch, as Arnold stabbed him in the back publicly, right before the election? Perhaps if we didn't elect LIBERALS to be titular head of the Republican Party in California, under the guise of "the best we can do," the State might have a chance.

[dashing doofus]

You must visit the Boston area soon, especially Cambridge, which will make you feel like you are back in the 60s, except most of these hippies are rich, trust fund kids with alot of time on their hands.