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May The Schwarzenegger Not Be With You
American Spectator ^ | George Neumayr

Posted on 05/21/2009 3:25:00 AM PDT by rellimpank

The subject of Arnold Schwarzenegger bores me. I wrote ceaseless columns on this site warning Republicans and conservatives that he would govern as a liberal and operate as a Trojan Horse for the Dems. During an appearance on the now-defunct CNN show Inside Politics, I said that he could become "the Jim Jeffords of the West Coast." For my troubles, I was dismissed as an out-of-touch, maniacal, abortion-obsessed pinhead.

Now to hear the same country-club Republican jackasses who sabotaged Tom McClintock and parachuted Arnie into office whine about his liberal legacy is just boring. You made this slipshod bed; lie in it. "This isn't the Arnold we once knew," they say in effect. Yes, it is. You just weren't paying attention, or more likely just didn't care, owing to ambivalence about your own platform.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: arnold; arnoldlegacy; ca; calinitiatives; georgeneumayr; parsky; recallarnold

1 posted on 05/21/2009 3:25:03 AM PDT by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank
All you got to do is talk conservative. Republicans eat it up


2 posted on 05/21/2009 3:29:01 AM PDT by Leisler ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."~G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Leisler
Arnie was "conservative" and Obama was a devout Christian.

Morons, morons, morons.

3 posted on 05/21/2009 3:35:24 AM PDT by Enterprise (The Porkulus brought us economic swine flu.)
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To: rellimpank
Arnold is in a hell of a pickle.

He can't act and he sure as hell can't govern. He's not a member of the Party of Death and Communism (PDC-was old Democrat Party) and he's not a dyed-in-the-wool Republican.

Perhaps his problem is that he's married to a Kennedy skeleton. That boy needs someone with meat on her bones.

4 posted on 05/21/2009 3:38:28 AM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholics voted based upon the teachings of the church, there would be no abortion and no Obomba.)
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To: rellimpank

What is a Schwarzenegger?


5 posted on 05/21/2009 4:07:37 AM PDT by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: chainsaw

I think it’s a black plowman. That’s what I seem to recall.


6 posted on 05/21/2009 4:36:40 AM PDT by all the best
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To: Enterprise

Is it realistically possible to elect a true conservative in Caifornia?


7 posted on 05/21/2009 5:11:13 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

It was possible in the past. We had George Deukmejian and Ronald Reagan. Plus, we had a really good guy as a State Senator for a while, Chuck Poochigian. Once in a while, some good ones get in there. I’m still hoping to see Poochigian have a reasonable shot at Attorney General or even Governor someday.


8 posted on 05/21/2009 6:51:07 AM PDT by Enterprise (The Porkulus brought us economic swine flu.)
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To: rellimpank
Republican businessmen made endless excuses for Schwarzenegger. Well, at least he is a "fiscal conservative," they would say, mumbling something about him having quoted Adam Smith and Milton Friedman once or twice. To anyone even remotely paying attention, this was obvious BS.

Sadly, there are still some trying to sell the same BS.

9 posted on 05/21/2009 10:22:41 AM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado!)
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To: traderrob6
Is it realistically possible to elect a true conservative in Caifornia?

Usually they are taken down before/during the Primary by the GOP establishment. They prefer Dems to Conservatives, apparently.

10 posted on 05/21/2009 10:25:34 AM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado!)
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To: calcowgirl
>> Usually they are taken down before/during the Primary by the GOP establishment. They prefer Dems to Conservatives, apparently. <<

The sad thing is you can usually which candidate the RINO is if the GOP "leadership" intervenes in a primary and is hell-bent on making certain their chosen one is nominated. Arnold, Specter, Martinez, Chaffee, Crist...

And of course, whichever "Republican" official gets non-stop fawning allocates from the pro-Obama local media, while all their other endorsements are down-the-line pro-Democrat

11 posted on 05/27/2009 1:09:17 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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