If the California Republican leadership had come out early on for Tom McClintock, I believe theres a good chance, he'd be well ahead in all the polls right now. Let's look back just a short time ago. Without ever evaluating or analyzing Arnie's politics and where he stood on the issues, Californian's immediately went for Arnie. In the first poll released after he announced, people gave Arnie 23%. That 23% I suggest, came mostly from people who were fans of the pop cult icon and Hollywood superstar. Not from anything to do with his politics and stances on the issues.
I think the Califonria GOP has sold out their conservative principles and Republican convicitons to secure a victory over the liberal Democratic establishment in the Golden State. They've also sold out Tom McClintock, in order to support a liberal named Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Conservative Republican's have bitten the bullet on many occasions in the past, covering many election cycles. We have always tried to keep a positive, optimistic and winning attitude, with election victory as the target goal. Sometimes we've had to accept a candidate who was less then a full fledged conservative. At times we've backed a social moderate, who was a fiscal conservative. Other times we've even accepted a candidate who was, both a social and fiscal moderate. And on are occasion, conservatives have even tolerated a social liberal, who was also, a hardcore fiscal conservative. But this can only be carried so far, before you cross the centrist line on the American political spectrum and find yourself in the land of liberals and liberalism.
I think the California GOP and Republicans in general, have carried this to the extreme. Arnold's politics simply do not embrace the conservative agenda or advance the GOP party platform. And anyone who says Arnold is a conservative, who supports the GOP platform, better reevaluate their own political ideology and philosophy. Arnold's political agenda is closer to that of Teddy Kennedy, Tom Daschle and John F.Kerry, then it will ever be to that of Dick Cheney, George W.Bush and Ronald Reagan.
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