Posted on 09/19/2003 8:52:17 PM PDT by FairOpinion
American Indians who are supporting Democrat front-runner Cruz Bustamante in California are also promoting Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock, and GOP front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger is furious.
"I think that as far as Tom McClintock is concerned, I think the question I have for him is, what side is he on?" Schwarzenegger said Thursday. "Is he on the side of the Republicans? Does he represent the Republicans, or does he represent Bustamante?"
Schwarzenegger suggested that the tribes were abetting Bustamante by trying to split the Republican vote.
"They are financing his commercials and TV spots and all that," said Schwarzenegger, who doesn't take money from Indian tribes. "He knows they're financing him not because they want him to be governor. They just want to interfere with the process so that Bustamante wins. He has to decide which side is he on, the Republicans' or Bustamante's."
McClintock called Schwarzenegger's comments "a ridiculous statement by a man who obviously hasn't paid much attention to California public affairs. ... For 20 years, I have fought to protect sovereignty on reservation lands, well before there was gaming.
"If they wanted to hurt Schwarzenegger, they would be making an independent expenditure to hurt Schwarzenegger, and Lord knows there's plenty they could hurt him with."
Assemblyman John Benoit, R-Palm Desert, a Schwarzenegger supporter, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise: "I think the idea of divide and conquer is a tried and true tactic. I can't speak for the Indians, but if there was somebody looking to help Bustamante, this would be the way to do it."
This thread, to you, is for sliming TM, using talking points put out by Arnold's leftwing political hacks.
I haven't found where you have condemned him for it.
He had every right to do so, and there is no shame in it.
No shame in taking contributions that will help Bustamante to be elected Governor? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Intentional blindness is a terrible thing. To see it exhibited by so-called "conservatives" on FreeRepublic is even more horrible.
As Harry Truman once said, "I just tell the truth, and to them it just SOUNDS like hell!"
Good question. Apparently the uber-conservatives whose total votes together couldn't fill a phone booth don't care if Their Saintly Hero accepts money from the same place that Gray Davis gets his.
WAAAAHHHHHH!!!! Keep crying - Governor Schwarzenegger will dry your tears soon enough.
Apparently we can fill more than a phone booth, since there are more of us here than there are of you, and since Tom beat Arnold in the strawpoll at the GOP convention.
What does Bustamante pay you in - dollars or pesos?
(snicker) You're basing the entire political future of your candidate on the basis of one unscientific straw poll held by an anti-abortion advocacy group. Good - just keep doing dumb things.
No, I demand gold bars, since paper money will be worthless once you leftists get done destroying the economy.
Actually, most of us are trying to get California OUT of this mess by electing a Republican to the governorship. And we'll win in spite of the roving bands of uber-conservatives who are actively trying to elect Cruz Bustamante over the Republican.
No, I was ridiculing your side for the lying claim they have made for days that some strawpoll done at a convention has validity.
So you admit that you are getting paid to post here. Thanks - it makes it easier to assign weight to your posts when we know whether a particular poster is a paid shill or not.
Toodles, paid shill.
You aren't smart enough to understand humor, because you don't have any humor. You're humorless.
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