Posted on 05/17/2008 6:44:54 PM PDT by Hazwaste
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger created shock and awe in the Republican Party when he warned years ago that the GOP was in danger of "dying at the box office" by failing to make the sale to a wide swath of voters. And with the presidential election looming, the Republican governor of the nation's most populous state - a decidedly blue state - has now found a chorus of agreement. The Republican "brand" - thanks to an unpopular president, a war, gas prices, foreclosures and deficit - has become such damaged goods that GOP Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia groused last week that "if we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf." The answer for GOP presidential candidate John McCain: take a page out of the Schwarzenegger playbook and sell a product that is "counter" to the current GOP brand on issues like global warming, spending, and even immigration reform.
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Grand Uber Liberal Party (GULP!)
Koolaide, the favored drink.
You've said it. But how do you get them to actually practice Conservatism?
Kind of like trying to convince a woman to be a man, or a man to be a woman. They can't really pull it off because they must be TRUE to their own nature.
We're REALLY in a crisis situation because we DO NOT have any TRUE Conservative Leadership for America to turn toward.
The honorable thing for him to do would be to change party affiliation over to Democrat.
.... and what aRINOld has done for the GOP in California, McCain will do for the GOP nationally. It's almost time to bury the elephant and move on to another party.
Scum all, every single one of them, with the worst of all being Arnold The Socialist who masqueraded as a conservative during his initial campaign.
Lets rebrand McCain and Schwarzo as Rinos for life.
The Grand Old RINO Party.
Hey! Where were you today? Only the Rabi was on in your spot! I missed you and especially your bumper music!!!
It’s the Rabbi’s show. I am the utility player. Fill in guy.
I don't like any of it one bit. Both you and Melanie are missed and I'm getting really annoyed at the station's new owners!!!
Hey! What’s ol Carly’s last name? Now that HPQ is merging with EDS (Ross Perot’s old company) and she’s calling the shots for McGore’s economics... What a wonderful world it will be... (/dripping sarcasm)
Cara Carleton (”Carly”) Sneed Bartlem Fiorina
Carly’s father just died in Feb— a 9th Circuit justice appointed by Nixon.
Also part of the Nixon administration during the Watergate period.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/15/local/me-sneed15
EXCERPT:
Senior judge on U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, former law school professor
February 15, 2008
Judge Joseph T. Sneed III, who served for nearly 35 years on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals after a long career in academia, died Saturday in San Francisco. He was 87.
Sneed died in his sleep, said his daughter Carly Fiorina, former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. The cause of death was not given.
In 1994, Sneed was part of a panel that selected Kenneth Starr as the independent counsel charged with investigating President Clinton’s actions in the Whitewater real estate venture.
On the nation’s largest and busiest appellate court, Sneed ruled on a wide range of cases, many that made headlines.
In 2001, the court ruled that the sentence given to a San Bernardino man, Leandro Andrade, under California’s three-strikes law violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Andrade was sentenced to 50 years for shoplifting videotapes. Sneed dissented, arguing that the ruling contradicted the will of the public who voted for the law.
Sneed viewed himself as a fairly conservative voice on a court that had grown increasingly liberal over the years. In his rulings, Sneed said he sought a fair remedy, one that “harmonizes all the notes sounded in the interpretive symphony. Some notes in the symphony, however, should be played very softly, if at all. Those are the notes that sound in distributive justice,” he wrote, according to the Washington Post.
This New Repellican game of “keep away” from conservatives looks more and more like a collectivist clique!!! The Rockefeller, Nixon, Ford, Howard Baker, James Baker, George Shultz, et al, clique!!!
Did ya know that James Baker tried to push this global warming nonsense back in 1989?
For some reason, GHWB backed off.
I came across that in one of my Socratic adventures. ;-)
They are right, we need to rebrand the Republican party.
That means return to common-sense practical conservative values.
I do NOT think the GOP is in trouble due to ideology, either too little or too much. Look at the attacks on the GOP -
its “all Bushs fault” or “warmonger” or attacks on their person or “they dont care” or “
the core GOP values - freedom, responsibility, law-and-order, family, faith, self-reliance, individualism,
American sovereignty, patriotism, peace-through-strength, life, property rights, personal rights, equality of opportunity, accountability - These values are core American values.
The GOP is down and out over ...
- loss of faith in GOP competence (attacks on Bush)
- blaming Bush for ‘weak economy’ (its not that bad, but it happens)
it’s not really down and out because those values are less widely held or shared (although that is a factor to consider).
Why would people vote for a GOP moving toward the left, when the Democrats are already there?
“Emulate some of their positions in certain areas of the country. “
Only *before* the election. After the election, screw the peons. They win enough Bush majority house seats they can mix and match the majorities to pass tax increases AND gay rights in the military and workplace bills. Just watch.
“Conservatism wins every time. All Republicans have to do is just be conservatives.”
Woody Jenkins is a fine conservative. So was George Allen and Rick Santorum and ...
you get the picture.
Because Schwarzenegger has done such a wonderful job in making the California State Republican Party the major force it is today. /sarcasm
Wow, that is an excellent point!
Just what we need to reinvigorate the CAGOP — another blatant liberal we can add to Arnold’s expanding roster of useless political hacks.
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