Gov. Schwarzenegger [IBD Editorial Endorsing Arnold]

Investor's Business Daily ^ | September 15, 2003 edition | staff

[snopercod]

IBD offices are in Los Angeles.

[EllaMinnow]

His speech is live on FOX now.

[snopercod]

Not here on the East Coast, but I'll try and find a replay later. Thanks for the heads up.

[EllaMinnow]

Nah - they cut if off, AGAIN.

Thanks for posting the editorial.

[snopercod]

Sorry, Mark.

[EllaMinnow]

I think at least one of you has a longer ping list. Please use it for this excellent editorial and endorsement.

[snopercod]

Fox's priorities really pi$$ me off. When you alerted me, I ran in and turned on the TV. They were running a story on that new ultrasound system that shows baby's facial features (for the 200th time).

I'm still mad at them for not covering the near-deaths of the astronauts returning from the ISS on the Soyuz (several months ago).

[EllaMinnow]

FOX went live to California, but only had a reporter whispering his report while Schwarzenegger spoke. I thought they'd stay with it, but noooo.

cyn, didn't you see part of it?

[BigBobber]

IBD. Just another leftist liberal group for Arnold. The sell-outs! </sarcasm>

[cyncooper]

I did see part of it.

Here's the general gist of what I heard him say on MSNBC:

First, I saw some of Mary Bono introduce him and she said how excited she was about his candidacy and how her kids were most excited to meet #1 President Bush, and #2 Arnold Schwarzenegger, and #3 was some carrier. She said about the divisions being experienced in the Republican party, that California has veered off course and must be turned around like an aircraft carrier, and that is not abruptly. She was not dismissive of those who support McClintock at all.

Then Arnold came up and said someday America will have a woman president, and this was met with cheers, THEN he said he knew two things about this: She would be an American Margaret Thatcher and she would be a Republican.

Then he said he's always been a Republican. That he's asked ten times a day why he is a Republican "And that's just from my wife, Maria!" Much laughter. He also right before or after that made a disparaging joke about the nine democratic candidates. Yahoo!

Then he got very serious and explained how he had grown up and seen with his own eyes the Russian trucks and troops right there in his own town. That he and his father took food to a refugee camp. That he grew to hate communism and wanted to come to the greatest country on earth---America. (applause!)

Then he described coming to America and Humphrey and Nixon were campaigning and as he watched the campaign unfold he said Humphrey sounded like the communists and he knew he was a Republican. He couldn't wait to become a Republican so he could vote for a Republican. He spoke of going to California and learning that Republican values brought prosperity to that state. And now he is running for governor of California, as a Republican.

Then MSNBC decided to leave.

It was very exciting and positive and moving (the firsthand look at Communism, you can just imagine) and the crowd was jazzed.

[DoughtyOne]

More absentee ballots continue to be cast for Tom McClintock today.

As much as 7-9% of the total vote may be  locked away for McClintock
before 70% of the populace votes to elect Schwarzenegger or Bustamante.

If McClintock pulls out three days before the election
2-4% more votes will go to him anyway.

Thus 9 to 13% of the vote may be stashed away by a man who cannot win.

Let's have a big round of applause for Senator Tom McClintock.

[Sabertooth]

How many Americans, let alone politicians, can set a better example for California's large and growing immigrant population?

They say Schwarzenegger has no experience in Sacramento. We say hallelujah. What's needed there now is new, positive thinking based on real-world experience and common sense.

In a poll this week, 59% of Californians are opposed to giving valid California Drivers' Licenses to Illegal Aliens.

Arnold says that he agrees with the majority, but won't support a referendum giving them a chance to overturn the SB60 legislation in the March primary.

Arnold has offered no specific plan to oppose the CDLs for Illegals, and has also said that he want's to legalize the Illegals and give them the licenses anyway.

This is common sense?

[EllaMinnow]

Excellent. I wish I had seen it.

[Congressman Billybob]

Every now and again, the editorial writers for a major publication manage to write a statement of opinion that is clear, concise, and thoughtful. This is one of those times. Kudos to the editorial staff of the IBD.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Paying the Wrong Piper," discussion thread on FR. Article is also on ChronWatch.

[cyncooper]

I hate typing something up and then thinking I've been unclear, though hopefully this was:

he said Humphrey sounded like the communists and he knew he was a Republican.

Of course Schwarzenegger said Humphrey sounded like a communist, and after learning more about the Republican party, Schwarzenegger said he, A.S, declared that he himself was a Republican.

Whew.

[LtKerst]

He cannot win?
Many have come from behind with a 30 point deficit,
Arnold is, and will be , a "Tax and spend Liberal.
You are a sucker to think he will be different from Davis or Bustabudget.
I call on Arnold to step down and support McClintock,
before He costs us this Recall.
Arnold will not win.
But McClintock can, and should.
McClintock is the answer
Arnold is "Business as usual."
Pete Wilson is Laughing at You.

[NormsRevenge]

There is a certain hollowness to some of the arguments used in this editorial that are disturbing to say the least. Just my opinion.

I won't belabor critiquing it in depth as all those arguments go on incessantly here everyday on other threads and I wouldn't want to rain on the moderate parade that is being championed here.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for the report. I would have loved to watch that speech.

[DoughtyOne]

Okay. I'm a sucker. And casting a vote for a man that cannot win and may facilitate the election of the worst man to inhabit a governor's mansion in the United States' history, is what?

[AmericaUnited]

What do you expect from someone who's spent his entire adult life in state government — and in mostly second-rung jobs at that?

I expect Tom McClintock... a politician