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Arnold Wins Clear Mandate (Plans For Recall Junked)
NewsMax.com ^ | 10/08/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 10/08/2003 7:24:42 AM PDT by kattracks

More Californians voted in Tuesday night's recall election than in the general election eleven months ago, giving Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger a clear mandate for change.

Ten million Golden Staters went to the polls yesterday, far more than the 7.7 million who voted in the 2002 gubernatorial election. When the final count is done, Schwarzenegger is expected to have garnered at least one million more votes than Gov. Davis did last November.

The actor turned governor bested his nearest competition, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, by a whopping 15 points - 47.8 to 32.6 percent, with the recall itself passing by a six point margin - 53.7 to 46.3 percent.

The devastating loss for Democrats had at least one top state party official conceding that plans to recall the recall would have to be junked.

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1 posted on 10/08/2003 7:24:42 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
My opinion:

CONCLUSIONS CAN BE DRAWN FROM THE CALIFORNIA RECALL ELECTION:

1) The Democrat Party has been steadily imploding. The withering on the vine of the Democrat Party can be traced to the Congressional elections of 1994 - no wonder that hated Newt Gingrich.

2) Republicans got about 3 out of every 5 votes in a very liberal California and the tax and spend Democrat Davis was booted from office by a massive turnout of voters.

3) Take a look at the Democrat Presidential candidates, could there be a weaker field? I don't think so.

4) HOPEFULLY the GOP Senate will see this obvious trend and get tough on the foolish Democrats and their silly obstructionist tactics. Republicans should now be emboldened and they should govern like conservative Republicans.

5) President Bush is doing a fine job, he'll handily win re-election, he can be comfortable in pushing his conservative programs and he should definately fight hard to put conservative judges on the Supreme Court to fill any upcoming vacancies.

6) The Klintoons have been horrible for the Dem Party on a national basis. The Dems can't seem to recognize this and throw McCauliffe out of the DNC and shun both Bill and Hillary. The Clintoons will continue to drag the Dems down :)

2 posted on 10/08/2003 7:25:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (ESPN now has 4 little wimpy sissies left. I'm switching back to FOX.)
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To: kattracks
I've never seen a liberal win an election with a whopping 15 point margin! And we're told it has nothing to do with the set of policies the Democrats have been pushing on California for the last couple of years.
3 posted on 10/08/2003 7:26:37 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: 1Old Pro
he'll handily win re-election

A lot can happen in one year. I sincerely hope you are right, but....

4 posted on 10/08/2003 7:27:31 AM PDT by RoughDobermann (Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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To: All
Got a minute?
I'd really like you to rub my ears,
or help out FR.

5 posted on 10/08/2003 7:27:58 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: 1Old Pro
SHHHHH....don'ttell the Stupid Dems that the Clintons are the reason they are losing EVERYWHERE....let's just keep that a secret til ALL the Dems lose.

They think the Clintons are their saviors, when really they are the MILLSTONES around their necks!!!

6 posted on 10/08/2003 7:31:58 AM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: kattracks
The devastating loss for Democrats had at least one top state party official conceding that plans to recall the recall would have to be junked.

Oh puh_leez. The hardcore dems are too stupid to know when they have lost. There will be an effort by DU types to get a recall, although they will fall way short.

7 posted on 10/08/2003 7:32:47 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: 1Old Pro
I think McCaullife is an agent of the Republican party. He's awesome. Since he's presided over the DNC, the Democrats lost the Senate and lost seats in the House despite the fact that it was an off-year election and the party in power usually loses seats. Next, he convinces all prominent Democrats to stay out of the recall race, so Cruz can get his clock cleaned. If he were a CEO of a public company, he'd have been kicked out by the Board long ago, and if the Board was rubber stamping him, a shareholder revolt would kick out the Board. But since the Democrats will do whatever is good for Bill Clinton, they keep this guy in, to the further detriment of their party.

10 years ago: 1993. Bill Clinton was President. The House was Democrat. The Senate was Democrat. Most governors were Democrats (But strangely enough, not California). Today: Republican President. Republican House. Republican Senate. Most governors are now Republican. And we've got California back. Republicans now control the governorships in California, New York, Florida, and Texas, as well as erstwhile Democratic states like Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maryland.

This means that for years to come, the Dem field is going to consist of Washington types, who aren't good presidential candidates, and governors of small states like Vermont.

Go McCaullife!

8 posted on 10/08/2003 7:38:19 AM PDT by Koblenz (There's usually a free market solution)
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To: 1Old Pro
4) HOPEFULLY the GOP Senate will see this obvious trend and get tough on the foolish Democrats and their silly obstructionist tactics. Republicans should now be emboldened and they should govern like conservative Republicans.

Yes, we can hope. But just what thing in the past 8 years makes you think that the GOP will suddenly grow a spine, a pair of cojones, and some intestines all at once?

I'll be happy if they simply wash off that yellow streak down their back.

9 posted on 10/08/2003 7:39:37 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: goldstategop
"I've never seen a liberal win an election with a whopping 15 point margin!"


Well, I did, just last night. : )

It is clear that most Republicans voted for Arnold, not McClintock, yesterday, so the California GOP has given Arnold a mandate. If he raises taxes or pushes for civil unions for gays, affirmative action, more gun control, taxpayer-funded abortions or bigger government, he will destroy the California GOP from within. But I sincerely hope that Governor Schwarzenegger proves me wrong and actually governs like a Republican, and if he does I'll be happy to accept "I told you so"s from pro-Arnold FReepers.
10 posted on 10/08/2003 7:41:37 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: kattracks
When the final count is done, Schwarzenegger is expected to have garnered at least one million more votes than Gov. Davis did last November.

I would be surprised to see anyone file a lawsuit against the recall at this point.

11 posted on 10/08/2003 7:41:52 AM PDT by TheDon
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To: goldstategop
"I've never seen a liberal win an election with a whopping 15 point margin!"

Yes you have. you saw it happen last night.

Arnold is a Rino. I think it's overstating things to call this a conservative victory or a republican victory.

Arnold has no coattails to offer for other conservatives. He's not going to sway anyone to vote for GWB in 2004.

Just as the libs are trying to overstate the no vote on 51 today, I see conservatives trying to make too much of Arnold's win. We need to be honest here - there are people in CA who decided that his politics were liberal in spite of his party affiliation, and they trusted him more than Bustamove. Arnold inspired a lot of crossover votes from the Dems because they saw through his fake (R) and saw one of their own.

Also Arnold had a certain Ventura factor other Republi

12 posted on 10/08/2003 7:46:11 AM PDT by shadowman99
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To: 1Old Pro
3) Take a look at the Democrat Presidential candidates, could there be a weaker field?

No - this is why I believe that Hillary is going to enter the race and attempt to rescue the Rats from themselves. I hope that she does because I believe that if she does, it will destroy all future hope for the Clintonistas once and for all.

The DimwitDems are already spinning the California Recall as an unfortunate "local" matter. They cannot face the reality that what happened in California yesterday was not only a rejection of Gray Davis but a slap in the face to the Clinton's, Jackass Jackson, Terry McAwful, Diane Frankenstein, and the rest of the trash and burn Socialist Party.

If they do not clean up their act, they are going to go down in flames, burning all their "bridges to the 21st century" behind them and they will end up in the same place others like them before have gone - "in the disgarded grave of history's lies."

13 posted on 10/08/2003 7:47:50 AM PDT by slimer (i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take it anymore!)
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To: kattracks
Conan! What is best in life?

To crush your enemy. To them driven before your eyes. To hear the lamentations of their women!

14 posted on 10/08/2003 7:48:09 AM PDT by Destructor
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To: shadowman99
Also Arnold had a certain Ventura factor other Republi...

run out of minutes?

15 posted on 10/08/2003 7:50:05 AM PDT by new cruelty
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To: shadowman99
I don't agree with you. Arnold did NOT run as a liberal - at least on the issues that mattered. And the crossover votes he received from Democrats and Independents came from people disgusted with the anti-freedom, anti-business, and anti-opportunity socialist outlook peddled by today's Democratic Party. Any one who doesn't see that doesn't understand why more than 60% of Californians voted for the GOP yesterday.
16 posted on 10/08/2003 7:50:56 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: slimer
what happened in California yesterday was not only a rejection of Gray Davis but a slap in the face to the Clinton's, Jackass Jackson, Terry McAwful, Diane Frankenstein, and the rest of the trash and burn Socialist Party.

Well said.

17 posted on 10/08/2003 7:53:30 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (ESPN now has 4 little wimpy sissies left. I'm switching back to FOX.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
But just what thing in the past 8 years makes you think that the GOP will suddenly grow a spine, a pair of cojones, and some intestines all at once?

Nothing, I can hope they wake up though can't I? :)

18 posted on 10/08/2003 7:54:33 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (ESPN now has 4 little wimpy sissies left. I'm switching back to FOX.)
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To: Koblenz
good points
19 posted on 10/08/2003 7:56:39 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (ESPN now has 4 little wimpy sissies left. I'm switching back to FOX.)
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To: Koblenz
We have Republicans for Sharpton; maybe it's time for Republicans for McAuliffe?
20 posted on 10/08/2003 7:59:31 AM PDT by Born Conservative ("Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names" - John F. Kennedy)
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