Arnold's corruption of Republican Party

World Net Daily ^ | 10/6/2003 | ALAN KEYES

[EternalVigilance]

Keyes isn't on the team.

He hasn't gone anywhere. He's still firmly on the conservative team.

It's you guys who are scoring TDs for the opposition.

[outlawcam]

An AS victory will give me 80% of what I want.

Do you have a laundry list of things, readily accessible or easily explained, that you want? I'd be interested in reading them.

[Sir Gawain]

Keyes called Bush "evil" too

Source please.

[churchillbuff]

The Republicans who vote for Schwarzenegger will owe Bill Clinton an apology for having given the nation the impression that they sincerely believed character to be an issue for those claiming high office.

Doug - defender of Willey - needs to hear Alan on this issue. I ask again: would Doug and all the others who rightly screamed about the treatment of Willey by Clinton, have kept their mouths shut if it had been ARNOLD who groped her? It's looking like they might have. They seem to care less about Willey and women who are victimized than the party label of the alleged victimizer

[Rabid Dog]

Half of California's conservative base has been duped by Doof and his minions. It's not too late - the real poll is tomorrow.

Why have Arnold's "conservative" supporters been so sure from the beginning that the apparent electoral weakness of McClintock, the choice of merit, was not due to their failure to support him, as they bowed before an idol of false pragmatism?

It seems that many California Republican leaders never even seriously considered the recall as an opportunity to make their real case to the people of California. As I write this, the under-funded and under-reported McClintock defeats Bustamante in head-to-head polls, with Arnold off the ballot. A vast majority in the state understands even now that Tom McClintock is the candidate most able to handle California's fiscal crisis. Californians told pollsters, by a two-to-one margin, that McClintock won the debate, that two-thirds of them also said would be crucial to their choice on Oct. 7.

The recall had providentially presented Californians with the prospect of electing a principled moral conservative statesman to handle a crisis of government fiscal and budget policy that he has spent his entire career preparing to face. McClintock's predictable surge in the polls from an asterisk to nearly 20 percent, as voters began to focus on the question of who would replace Davis, and before his widely watched victory in the debate, positioned him for a final surge to victory.

[TexasCajun]

I really don't see ANY Conservative principles being upheld by ANY Republican, including my President!

So Ahhnold is in good company.

[Aquinasfan]

Arnold is in good company.

With you.

I didn't need any more assurance that McClintock was the right choice, but there it is anyway.

[G.Mason]

"Expect Keyes's character to be drug through the mud on this thread. His message will be ignored."

Hey! That's not fair.

You're using a crystal ball.

[churchillbuff]

Keyes called Bush "evil" too

No, if he used that word about anybody in 2000, it was McCain. He didn't blast Bush in that race.

[EternalVigilance]

Typical b/s. Blame one guy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, for all the ills befalling the Repulican party in California.

You need to read the whole article. The last few paragraphs put the blame exactly where it always must lie ultimately...and it ain't all on Arnold.

[outlawcam]

This is a false assumption.

Your assumption is obviously based on something. What is it?Is it based on polls, which indicate McClintock would win if Arnold was not in the race, or are they based on your own gut instinct?

[kellynla]

We don't have to "eat" and we certainly don't have to "swallow" everything that comes out of a person's mouth that claims to be a "Republican"??? I guess you supported David Duke too! But then you don't live here so what do you really care...you're not going to have to pay the con$equence$! VOTE4MCCLINTOCK or vote for the liberal(either one of them) and pay the freight! http://www.helptom.com

[Afronaut]

But does anyone doubt that the 2004 Republican convention in New York would be dominated by media heavies tripping over themselves to get the governor of the nations most populous state to denounce the GOP platform on social issues (Abortion) as "out of the mainstream"?

The Whole Pie is right here. Can you see this in NY? Reporters will be on Arnold and Maria like a gallery following Tiger Woods. His Opinions will be getting headlines, His voice and the "raging Liberal", Maria will be the lead in all the News broadcasts.

[zook]

Yep. But I'm too busy to rehash this here now. Plenty of others have rattled off lists. The main thing for me is an R next to the name of the Calif. gov. This will damage the Dems and help Bush in 04.

[Corin Stormhands]

You know I said on the other thread that, indeed, I've often been embarrassed by the Republican Party. But what's happened in California to the party is not Arnold's fault. He may have taken advantage of it, but he has not corrupted the party.

Alan Keyes was whining about the GOP long before the recall movement ever started.

[carton253]

No, we are not. Because Arnold is not the opposition. He is a Republican. You are sadly mistaken if you think Republicans come in one size fits all. They do not, and it is silly, stupid, and counterproductive to keep insisting otherwise.

All Republicans are not pro-life. Sorry, but its true. All Republicans are not anti-immigration. Sorry, but its true.

As long as you keep believing that only your brand of conservatism is what makes a republican a republican, you will continue to be defeated at the polls.

[Aquinasfan]

The Democratic Party is the party of abortion.

They have competition for the "pro-death" title now. When the Republican Party supports abortion it is no longer worthy of support.

[G.Mason]

"I really don't see ANY Conservative principles being upheld by ANY Republican, including my President!"

" So Ahhnold is in good company."

Ain't that the truth?

I'm just happy the Whore House is now the White House!

Sad to say but a little at a time is the best "we" are gonna do.

[churchillbuff]

To be fair, Doug has posted that if Arnold does something like this in the Governor's office, Doug will be first in line calling for his ouster. But I don't understand why this behavior becomes disqualifying only when done while in public office? Does that mean women are fair game for groping in other settings?

[Bob]

Well, the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition supports Arnold wholeheartedly.

Their endorsement