Posted on 10/05/2003 3:18:56 PM PDT by truthandlife
If there is anyone left who truly believes the Republican Party is committed to genuine conservative principles, the candidacy of bodybuilder/actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be California's next governor should be enough to set the record straight.
Despite Schwarzenegger's extreme liberal views, he has won praise from Republicans nationwide. On virtually every issue worth noting, Schwarzenegger comes down on the left side of the page.
Schwarzenegger is pro-abortion, pro-homosexual rights, pro-gun control, pro-green, and pro-illegal immigration. He even said that Clinton's impeachment made him "ashamed" to call himself a Republican.
Furthermore, Schwarzenegger's immoral escapades make even Bill Clinton look unsoiled. He once bragged in an Oui magazine interview about participating in sex orgies, not to mention his repeated admissions of drug use.
In spite of his personal and philosophical discrepancies, Schwarzenegger has received accolades from notable conservatives such as Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Pat Robertson, not to mention practically the entire national Republican hierarchy.
Writing for The New York Times, Frank Rich correctly observed, "It is hilarious to watch conservatives, the same conservatives who often decry phony Hollywood liberals and their followers, betray their own inviolate principles to bask in Arnold's hulking movie-star aura so that they might possibly gain a nominal Republican victory in the bargain."
By supporting a liberal such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republicans demonstrate that they have no real loyalty to conservative principles. Beyond that, by supporting Schwarzenegger, they have turned their backs on a true conservative gubernatorial candidate, Tom McClintock.
However, people who are paying attention know that this is the rule, not the exception, for the Republican Party. In race after race, Republican heavyweights will throw their support behind a liberal candidate and will starve out a conservative candidate. This is not an accident or a coincidence. It is the party's plan A. The Republican Party no more desires conservatives in political office than the Democratic Party does, and people who think otherwise are only deceiving themselves.
At some point, conservatives must awaken to the reality that they do not have a political party in Washington, D.C., that represents them. They must, at some point, be willing to abandon the Republican Party and unite around a party and a candidate that will courageously and consistently promote their principles. Can I get a second for Judge Roy Moore and the Constitution Party?
Sounds like a party of Freepers.
No you're not. You are one of the Religous Extremists who have hijacked the GOP.
I voted for Goldwater back when we didn't have to ask for the approval of a Theocrat before voting.
It's a shame that the Proof in Labeling Laws don't apply to politics. Otherwise you couldn't call yourself a Republican.
You Theocrats are frauds and a cancer on America.
I never said anything "jettisoning all those darn conservatives".
We must jettison all those Religous Zealot Theocrats who are mascarading as Conservative Republicans.
Because we have a Constitution that protects us from Extremist Religous Zealots.
Disallowing children to talk amongst themselves about Jesus while encouraging them to practice Islam for a month?
You and your children have a Right to all of those things. You are free to do all of them in a private school paid for with your money. But don't expect to come to a public school and use it as a forum for proselytizing the children of others.
Fighting for laws that say your daughter doesn't have to get your consent to get an abortion, even though she does to get an ear piercing?
Having a baby to care for is a life-long commitment, one that your daughter will have to live with long after you are no longer her legal guardian. She should not have to ask your permission on how to live the rest of her life. Comparing an abortion and an ear piercing is ridiculous.
If you were concerned about the possibilty of you daughter needing an abortion then you should have been a responsible parent and provided her birth control options.
Don't you think the citizens of the states should be able to make the laws that affect them?
I think you need a history lesson .... BIG TIME!!
I am embarassed by the spending habits of the GOP since 2000. They have had their chance to show their "stuff" but they are setting themselves up for a reverse of the 1994 , 2000 and 2002 gains. Someday a I may be ashamed to admit to my grandchildren that I was a Republican.
You already have religious freedom, try another lie.
Supreme court outlaws prayer at high school football games
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