Mark Steyn: The Gubernator?

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 08/10/03 | Mark Steyn

[McGavin999]

I keep hearing Freepers complain that Arnold is a RINO. They have to remember the most important thing here. Without a democrat in charge, the chances of voter fraud in California are cut down considerably. Nothing will cut it out completely, but it WILL make a difference having a republican in the statehouse. Particularly someone with ethics.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

I don't recall which of the fifth columnists repeated the following lines...

I hope people will think it through and realize that any Republican/Independent/Libertarian/"very conservative Republican" etc. who votes for anyone other than Arnold is actually voting for Bustamante.

...that are witlessly intended to transfer the guilt off the shoulders of the Statist RINO wing for their treachery in the November election onto loyal conservatives.

They are scared we've realized we don't need them this time, so expect more of this and worse.

They are once again trying to extort or scare us out of our position of fighting for the right cause in place of a promise for half measures, a promise offered with no substance other than "profiding eferythin fer eferyboty."

I've given up further wasting my time even speaking to such useful idiots of the Leftist/Statist status quo. Instead I am just going to go around reinforcing those who, like you, understand this time is so very different. The Left and RINO are dickering over the same bloc of votes. They are splintered. The parties are little or no use except for sending out goons to beat us up (seen that other thread today?).

We, sticking together and picking up other thoroughly fed-up voters, can win this war on our own terms.

So continue the fight, and don't even bother telling the rubes to go stick it. They get perfectly satisfied doing it to themselves.

[Kevin Curry]

I think a blockheaded, half-nazi, pro-death, liberal, pro-homo hollyweird enviro is absolutely perfect for them.

We agree.

This is spooky.

[Kevin Curry]

Nothing will cut it out completely, but it WILL make a difference having a republican in the statehouse. Particularly someone with ethics.

Who do you have in mind?

[Wolfstar]

WOW! Your post #47 is the most venomous, hate-filled drivel I've read in a very long time. You are a poster child for everything that the general public fears about people on the Right side of the political spectrum. I mean, your string of adjectives, alone, speaks volumes about the kind of person you are: corrupted, Godless, selfish, contemptuous, blockheaded, half-Nazi, pro-death...sheesh! With your invective, you write off the largest state in the nation — some 34 million souls. You are one scary individual.

[Kevin Curry]

But he's right.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting this article. Go Arnold!

[Wolfstar]

Sometimes I think the crowd to whom Steyn refers secretly would rather have Leftist Dems in office. Certainly, for people who profess to be Conservatives and, therefore, on the political Right, a great many candidates on the same side of the political spectrum seem never to be good enough. If one is always disgruntled with their own and never with those on the other side who are much worse, then something doesn't compute. By the way, did you catch the extraordinary invective in Post #47 on this thread? Astonishing.

[FairOpinion]

"It's because the "death-before-electability crowd" is perpetually disgruntled. If they can't get a 100% complete loaf, they'd rather starve. Oddly, they always seem to be more disgruntled with everyone except the Left/Dems. "

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Another sad, but painfully true statement.

[lonevoice]

He has said he is a family man and so is his wife

That news would shock even the Hollywood "elite"! ;)

[Wolfstar]

To sum up your point of view: "To win this election, I don't need anybody except you and me." Yep. Sure. Mmmhmmm. OK. Guess essentially telling everyone but your narrow slice of the electorate to go to blazes is one way to practice politics.

[Kevin Curry]

Sometimes I think the crowd to whom Steyn refers secretly would rather have Leftist Dems in office.

The only viable choice in California is between leftist dem or a morally reprobate fiscal moderate. We merely acknowledge this. We take no pride in it. We suffer it.

[GOPJ]

LOL:

Okay, Arnold's not a Nazi. He was born in the Austrian town of Thal, but not until 1947, and thus was technically unable to join the Nazi Party no matter how much he may have wanted to. But he certainly has family ties to the Nazis. His wife's grandfather, Joe Kennedy, was one of America's most prominent Nazi sympathisers.

[PhiKapMom]

Astonishing is right! What a nasty post!

If one is always disgruntled with their own and never with those on the other side who are much worse, then something doesn't compute.

I think you are on to something and it has been bothering me for a long time. When I see people posting Bush is a RINO or Bush is a socialist but never attack the other side, I have wondered if these people who continually criticize Republicans are even Republicans.

They never answer posts asking if they walked precincts for their conservative candidates or what they are doing to elect more conservatives -- instead they whine!

No one in their right mind could say that there is no difference in the parties either. Sometimes their posts are right out of the RAT Talking point papers too.

Beginning to think I should be paying more attention on here to some postings.

[Yaelle]

Please put me on this Mark Steyn list. Every word he writes, I wish I had written.

[Victoria Delsoul]

That news would shock even the Hollywood "elite"! ;)

Well, as a matter of fact I heard Davis saying that the radical right wingers want to take his job. I guess being a family man makes anyone a radical right winger in California.

[PhiKapMom]

Carville was also spotted meeting with Perot's advisors during that critical time period. If I may, I would like to join you in selling that bridge!

It amazes me the number of folks on here that keep saying that Perot did not have an affect on the 1992 election and his being in the race didn't give Clinton the win. Have always thought they voted for Perot because all the Republicans I know believe Perot was directly responsible!

[Wolfstar]

No, he (or she) most emphatically is NOT right. I'm a Californian. He (or she) just told me to go to blazes, even though I've never voted for a Democrat in my life. I've worked long and hard volunteering on Republican campaigns and always try to back the most conservative candidate in the primaries. Even though we're in the minority in this state, there are still millions more like me. You and AAABest just dismiss all of us — AAABest just more viciously than you. Unfortunately, I can't use the words I'm thinking right now to describe him/her.

[Wolfstar]

Did you catch the breathtaking invective in Post #47! And some other dope came along and agreed with that poster, no less. That's the kind of attitude that turns the general public off to Republicans. The public believes we all think like that.

[A.J.Armitage]

He has said he is a family man and so is his wife,

Nuclear dirt! I smell nuclear dirt!