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Arnoldian Standards (GOPers playing dumb about Schwarzenegger's obvious liberalism)
American Spectator ^ | 08/14/03 | George Neumayr

Posted on 08/13/2003 9:57:10 PM PDT by Pokey78

Republicans ravenous for pyrrhic victories are playing dumb about Schwarzenegger's obvious liberalism

Liberals in the California media always counsel the Republican Party to run liberal Republicans like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Do Republicans think journalists offer this avuncular advice because they have the GOP's best interests at heart? Let's take a wild guess here and say that journalists don't stay up late at night fretting over the welfare of the Republican Party. Why then do they promote the Riordans and the Schwarzeneggers? Because they want the Republican Party to adopt the liberalism of their party.

Me-too Republicanism is music to the liberal media's ears. It means liberals get to exercise ideological control over both parties and shunt out of the mainstream debate all those "reactionary" Republicans who foil their agenda.

Democrats might well vote for Schwarzenegger. Why not? He agrees with them on the most fundamental philosophical issues. Democrats support it's-for-the-children-and-the-elderly statism; so does he. They want gun control; so does he. They support a constitutional right to abortion; so does he. They may figure, Why not vote for a Republican who will do our work for us? In liberalizing the Republican Party, liberals have two parties to do their bidding. What they do from without -- pressuring Republicans to compromise their principles -- Schwarzenegger can do from within.

Republicans ravenous for pyrrhic victories are playing dumb about Schwarzenegger's obvious liberalism, but liberals are not. They know he is a Hollywood liberal who won't give them much trouble about their statism and political correctness. I have heard Davis-hating Democrats extol Schwarzenegger. They know that he is a Kennedy Republican, that is, a nominal Republican who will advance the views and values of Kennedy liberals under the false flag of Republicanism. "We want to make sure the mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure the older folks have their care that they need. That everything has to be provided for the people," says Schwarzenegger. Was Schwarzenegger doing an impersonation of Ted Kennedy?

The Kennedy playboy philosophy of Schwarzenegger also puts Dems at ease. "I have no sexual standards in my head that say 'this is good' or 'this is bad,'" he has said to Cosmopolitan magazine. "'Homosexual' -- that only means to me that he enjoys sex with a man and I enjoy sex with a woman. It's all legitimate to me." Has a Democrat every expressed the it's-all-good moral relativism of his party more ably than that?

Schwarzenegger is the sort of "children's activist" JFK could admire: Schwarzenegger can go from an appearance on the Howard Stern show to an elementary school classroom for a little chat with the children about "responsibility." One can only marvel at the cynicism of it all. An actor known principally for bringing R-rated violence to children is treated by the media as one of the leading children activists in the country. As a member of the Kennedy family, Schwarzenegger would know from in-law Teddy that as long as a pol mouths PC pieties about children and women he can get away with just about anything. Who cares if he has pawed women? He holds the Gloria Steinem position on abortion! "I'm for choice. The women should have the choice. The women should decide what they want to do with their bodies. I'm all for that," he says. Teddy couldn't have said it better.

Schwarzenegger's strategists are busy teaching him how to play a Republican on television, and we can expect him to throw a few bones to conservatives so they will politely avert their gaze from his Kennedy liberalism. But he will remain a de facto Democrat for anybody with eyes to see and ears to hear. Republicans who have lost their sight in the glare of his celebrity will call his candidacy "Big Tent" Republicanism. It is more like Circus Tent Republicanism.

Washington Post columnist David Broder -- observing last year that Democrats like San Francisco ultraliberal mayor Willie Brown supported Schwarzenegger's state-babysitting proposition, Prop 49 -- wondered aloud: "Are [Democrats] letting themselves be used to create a new Ronald Reagan for the embattled California Republican party?" Don't worry, Mr. Broder. Schwarzenegger is no Reagan, and the only party that's being used is the Republican one.

Reagan registered with the Republican Party to stop liberals, not elect them. Schwarzenegger's campaign is not the return of Reagan's California party, but definitive proof of its collapse.

A party that abandons its agenda "to win" will have no agenda to promote once it does.


George Neumayr, a writer in Southern California, contributes frequently to The American Prowler and The American Spectator.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 1eternalvignotincali; schwarzenegger; schwarzenrino; screwupfaceandcry
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1 posted on 08/13/2003 9:57:10 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
Neumayr is trying to bait California conservatives. It won't work. This recall is about holding a lying politician/powergoon to responsibility for the horrific mess he's made of California's economy. This election isn't about conservative issues like abortion, or homosexual rights. And who knows, if Arnold gets elected, he may grow to appreciate conservative values as he deals with the liberal pukes seeking to mutate this nation into socialism-land.
2 posted on 08/13/2003 10:02:29 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Pokey78
What an idiot this author is. Nowhere does he even address the disaster that the state is in financially and this is what the recall is all about. It's not about sex. Nobody is reaclling Davis because he's leading a morally deficent life. It's about the budget stupid.
3 posted on 08/13/2003 10:04:00 PM PDT by byteback
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To: Pokey78
Georgie's gonna be pissed on October 8.

Hell, he's pissed NOW!

4 posted on 08/13/2003 10:06:05 PM PDT by sinkspur (Get a dog! He'll change your life!)
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To: Pokey78
Exactly if Arnold wins he gains control of the State
party and that means conservatives no longer
have a voice on any issues.

This is not the way to advance the conservative
agenda but to destroy it.
5 posted on 08/13/2003 10:06:15 PM PDT by Princeliberty
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To: Princeliberty
bump
6 posted on 08/13/2003 10:07:51 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah (The 12th Republican Commandment: "Thou shalt not alienate thy base")
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To: Princeliberty
Exactly if Arnold wins he gains control of the State party and that means conservatives no longer have a voice on any issues.

What voice do conservatives have now? You have a totally Democrat-dominated legislature.

7 posted on 08/13/2003 10:08:35 PM PDT by sinkspur (Get a dog! He'll change your life!)
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To: Rabid Republican
Ping
8 posted on 08/13/2003 10:09:04 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah (The 12th Republican Commandment: "Thou shalt not alienate thy base")
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To: Princeliberty
Bump
9 posted on 08/13/2003 10:09:18 PM PDT by ambrose (Don't be a RINO sell-out, vote for McClintock!)
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To: sinkspur
So many who don't live in California seem to nurse this notion that this recall isn't about money, and impending financial catastrophe. If these folks really want to change the major issue in this election, they should arrange to send about 30 billion out this way. Maybe Bush can arrange it.
10 posted on 08/13/2003 10:09:37 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Pokey78
George Neumayr nails it.
11 posted on 08/13/2003 10:10:37 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Princeliberty
"This is not the way to advance the conservative agenda but to destroy it."

Unfortunately, losing is not the way to advance it either.

13 posted on 08/13/2003 10:12:07 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
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To: MHGinTN
Exactly!
14 posted on 08/13/2003 10:13:08 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Torie
So many who don't live in California seem to nurse this notion that this recall isn't about money, and impending financial catastrophe.

Of course it's about money. California's deficit is larger than the deficit of the other 49 states COMBINED!

15 posted on 08/13/2003 10:14:25 PM PDT by sinkspur (Get a dog! He'll change your life!)
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To: Princeliberty
Gee, I didn`t know the Conservative agenda was still alive in the Land of Fruits and Nuts. I do know that Arnold agrees with my views one hell of lot more then Grey out and his swedt Lt. Gov.. Tis time for California Conseratives to try to win for a change and then try to bring the poli closer to our position. Or, vote for the loser and then try to make changes. LOL
16 posted on 08/13/2003 10:14:43 PM PDT by bybybill (first the public employees, next the fish and, finally, the children)
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To: Pokey78
This guy was Limbaugh's source for the mud slinging campaign he started against AS last week. I understand that Limbaugh's performance today was worthy of Cirque du Soleil-a lot of back flips and contortions trying to deny he ever uttered a negative word against AS.
17 posted on 08/13/2003 10:16:12 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue (Who is this guy and why should anyone care?)
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To: nickcarraway; Sabertooth
They know that he is a Kennedy Republican, that is, a nominal Republican who will advance the views and values of Kennedy liberals under the false flag of Republicanism.

This is good.

18 posted on 08/13/2003 10:18:41 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah (The 12th Republican Commandment: "Thou shalt not alienate thy base")
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To: MHGinTN
This recall is about holding a lying politician/powergoon to responsibility for the horrific mess he's made of California's economy.

How is Arnie going to fix these problems when he just shredded his soft image as a "fiscal conservative" with the hiring of Buffet (D)? Only Soros is a bigger douchebag of a billionare.

And who knows, if Arnold gets elected, he may grow to appreciate conservative values as he deals with the liberal pukes seeking to mutate this nation into socialism-land.

Don't count on it. Most people with a political ideology have it formed by age 16. They usually stick by it for the rest of their lives withstanding a severe realigning event (eg. Great Depression, 9/11).

And, so far, it hasn't worked for this guy.


19 posted on 08/13/2003 10:21:05 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: Pokey78
Reagan registered with the Republican Party to stop liberals, not elect them. Schwarzenegger's campaign is not the return of Reagan's California party, but definitive proof of its collapse.

A party that abandons its agenda "to win" will have no agenda to promote once it does.

George Neumayr, a writer in Southern California, contributes frequently to The American Prowler and The American Spectator.

I think I love this man.

20 posted on 08/13/2003 10:21:21 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah (The 12th Republican Commandment: "Thou shalt not alienate thy base")
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