Repeating it doesn't make it so.Perhaps.
But IGNORING REALITY will not make it go away, either.It appears that even MahaRushie may be joining the ever-growing bandwagon of support for Arnold:
Arnold Answers "Rush Limbaugh Challenge"
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 21 August 2003 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 08/24/2003 3:51 PM PDT by demlosers
The audio links below - featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger's economic presser with George Schultz and Warren Buffett, plus clips of Ronald Reagan from 1964 and 1981 - prove that we are "show prep for the rest of the media." The ripple began with my op-ed in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal: California Needs Conservatism. Liz Ann Sonders of Charles Schwab, who couldn't bring herself to say my name, was nevertheless among the first to cite Arnold taking the advice of a "great Wall Street Journal op-ed" and thus harnessing "the Reagan Effect."
It was no accident that Arnold's presser occurred after 3:00PM ET. I ended Wednesday's program with a simple monologue transcribed under the headlined: "Just Be Yourself, Arnold." I said this because I believe Arnold, based on his life story, is a conservative. A few hours after this monologue and the candidate's presser, Fred Barnes said that Schwarzenegger "really did take up what I consider the Rush Limbaugh Challenge..." A short time later on Kudlow & Cramer, Tony Blankley cited "Rush Limbaugh's theory that California has become a perfect laboratory for the failures of liberalism."
This was my op-ed challenge: "We conservatives need to learn from Ronald Reagan. Conservatives need to stop being timid and pessimistic and insecure because California needs solutions. There is no better time and place to establish and illustrate the primacy of conservatism than now. Now, it's true not all of California's problems mirror those of the late 70s and early 80s, but many of them do - particularly those that forced this recall. Now, if one man with a vision completely changed the course of a nation and the world, why can't it happen in a single state?"
How Arnold Got His (Conservative) Groove Back
If you saw Arnold's press conference, you know how he rose to my challenge - and you can relive those moments through the magic of the RushLimbaugh.com audio links below. I was struck in particular by Secretary Schultz. He apparently saw a need to validate Schwarzenegger's maturity, competence and all that. It reminded me of his statement after Reagan walked out on Gorbachev at Reykjavik: "I never felt prouder of my president than I was today." Schultz knows they're trying to do the old tar-the-(R)-as-an-idiot trick on (R)nold.
As for Buffett, Arnold told him he'd have to do 500 sit-ups if he ever mentioned Prop. 13 and suggested hiking property taxes again. Arnold's impassioned offensive against punishing the people of California with high taxes represented a 180 towards that famous '64 Reagan stump speech for Goldwater. Schwarzenegger hammered away at the need for fiscal discipline. It's another conservative principle: You can't spend more than you take in. He said, "[O]f course I want to give away anything and everything. But can we afford it?" Great question! Besides, you ruin people's incentive to support themselves and they don't appreciate it if you give them everything.
Arnold told of a woman in tears when Prop. 13 passed because it meant she didn't have to sell her house to pay taxes, and told Buffett his taxes were lower than others because he hadn't sold his house and had it reassessed. A reporter pressed Arnold to name a program he'd cut, and his response brought to mind Reagan's overall philosophy on not spending more than you earn. Arnold nuked the reporter's premise that the very people who've overspent the people's money are the only ones who can reverse the trend. He's auditing the books, and he says he's going to find places to cut. This, and his rejection of tax hikes as an option, contrast starkly to the $8 billion tax gouge of Davis and the $7.9 billion proposed gouge of Cruz Bustamante...
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