Posted on 08/06/2003 11:31:56 PM PDT by jagrmeister
CALLING ALL Arnold Schwarzenegger Supporters:
I am announcing the creation of ArnoldGovernor.net . I have reserved the domain, but the site is up right now at a temporary URL which can be seen here (www.elephantparty.com). I am a Californian and a conservative - and I can say with certainty that Arnold represents the best chance we have of claiming California's governorship. I am posting this site for your review.
First, the others in the race. Bill Simon and Tom McClintock are both fine men, but they have lost important statewide races in the past. Simon lost a race against Davis last year which should have been a cakewalk given Davis' record. Most political analysts agree that Simon ran one of the worst campaigns in recent memory. McClintock is a virtual unknown statewide (let's not get fooled by our own echo chamber). The KEY to remember is that we have
Only 2 months (8 weeks) until Election Day. There is NO time to run someone who Californians have rejected in the past or a virtual unknown. For those who have leaned towards either of them, I'm appealing to your sense of reason to get behind someone with the best shot of winning. Now, why should we elect Arnold?
Arnold is a fiscal conservative but moderate otherwise. His stance on abortion will matter less than you might think- that's a matter for Supreme Court justices which the California governor has no say about. He is pro-business, pro-entrepreneurship, and tough on crime (witness his Proposition 49 which aims to reduce juvenille crime - a major, largely unaddressed component of crime). He is an "American by choice" and is very patriotic. People look at him and think "It's okay to be a Republican". With Schwarzenegger pulling a Total Recall on Grey Davis, Bush may actually find that California is friendly territory in 2004.
I am looking for pro-Arnold supporters to help:
1. Pitching Arnold's candidacy
2. Graphics design- create compelling visuals that are pro-Arnold or anti-Davis
3. Anyone else that wants to be pinged for pro-Arnold events.
4. Coming up with good one liners, spin, updates, opposition research, etc.
Let's team up! Thanks!!
Once I get your suggestions, I will update the site and in a few days, it will be at ArnoldGovernor.net . Thanks all Freepers for your help.
Yeah, just better to sell out, right ?
A couple ?!? On what issues does he remotely agree with the Republican platform ?!
"He might be the next governor, or a democrat will be the next governor."
If one embraces every 'Rat position from abortion to expansion of government, does that not make them a 'Rat ? Ah-nold's a 'Rat. I support Republicans who don't endorse the entirety of the 'Rat agenda. If CA wants a 'Rat, let 'em vote for one who has the courage to embrace the "D" letter, courage Ah-nold lacks.
And voting for someone who will expand state government beyond the 'Rats wildest dreams as Ah-nold will will fix the mess how again ?
And as a fellow Tennessean, you ought to know better than to even think about considering urging support for this RINO after 8 years of Scumquist.
Wrong. The term "RINO" is best applied to a candidate who embraces every single solitary major position of the 'Rats while having the brass cajones to run as a Republican. Ah-nold is for whom this term so perfectly fits.
Do you not think this is an issue ? I don't think a lot of the electorate knows this and it certainly will be an issue. But that's just one other bad point about the man.
"Arnold will be California's next Governor because he is the GOP's best shot of re-emerging in the union's most populous state."
Correction, it'll be the death knell of the GOP selling its soul for a few pieces of silver.
Then the party deserves to die ! The NY GOP is a national embarrassment -- chock-full of RINOs who get a sexual high off of expanding government, wreaking havoc with the state budget, a group that has a Devil's Agreement with the 'Rats that they will never attempt to contest their control of the State Assembly, who are their equals in every sleazy way. These cretins crush all independent-thinkers who attempt to win office and halt their "business as usual" attitude. I'm sickened that you would want to have the CA GOP embrace that closed-off and corrupt NY GOP establishment style. That, sir, is an endorsement of tyranny, not an endorsement of freedom.
"Those who want more conservative results can't just "will it to be" on election day...they have to do the harder work of changing hearts and minds of ordinary Californians between elections."
And you ain't gonna get that emulating NY.
I couldn't validate your conservatism if I tried.
Ain't that the truth. The party is actually eroding at the Congressional level despite having a Governor and State Senate and its majority in the latter is based precariously on a stack of cards. In NY, it ain't about ideology, but patronage, and as a result, the whole state resembles the old Soviet Union in that regard. Whole parties sell out on patronage and cut deals with each other over it so as not to infringe on the others' turf. For any serious-minded person to want to emulate this system anywhere else, one that discourages ethics, open-government and participation by the people, they are clearly uninterested in a "free republic."
It also provides an all-encompassing excuse when you throw an election into a Dim's waiting hands.
Simon lost? Those damned RINOs sabotaged him! Candidate didn't win? It was because HE was a RINO! Didn't ge EVERYTHING you wanted in the first week of a new administration? Those RINOs are dragging their feet!
Convinient scapegoat. I guess it's more real-sounding than "space aliens", but it's getting close...
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