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To: truthandlife
On virtually every issue worth noting, Schwarzenegger comes down on the left side of the page.

It's obvious that Chuck Baldwin and the Constitution Party don't consider being a Fiscal Conservative a critical issue. Let the single issue zealots go form their own party, we don't need them.

When they are gone the GOP will gain more than enough moderate voters from the Democrats to replace the Religous Zealots .

10 posted on 10/05/2003 3:32:11 PM PDT by LPM1888 (Freedom begins when you tell Mrs Grundy to go fly a kite)
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To: LPM1888
When they are gone the GOP will gain more than enough moderate voters from the Democrats to replace the Religous Zealots .

Tick tock...

12 posted on 10/05/2003 3:34:42 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: LPM1888
Let the single issue zealots go form their own party, we don't need them.

When they are gone the GOP will gain more than enough moderate voters from the Democrats to replace the Religous Zealots .

Thanks for at least being honest. I will tell you right now that the Republican Party will be in big trouble if they decide to reject Christian conservatives. I know you don't like to hear this but some six out of seven voting-age Americans are Christians. What makes evangelical Christians so powerful, Pew found, was their consistency on the issues. "The fact that this group expresses a consistent set of conservative political attitudes and is extremely active politically makes evangelicals Christians a powerful voting bloc,They're more apt to vote than other groups. With priorities going beyond core moral concerns over abortion and homosexuality, two-thirds of self-proclaimed religious conservatives are likely to vote, versus roughly half of all Americans. This is a very powerful bloc and if people like you say we can get these votes from moderates, think again.

15 posted on 10/05/2003 3:42:45 PM PDT by truthandlife
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To: LPM1888; Howlin
Its kind of gratifying to be able to tell Ahmanson along with his co-conspirator Viguerie to go take a hike, and to quit manipulating the GOP to their ends.
16 posted on 10/05/2003 3:43:49 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine
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To: LPM1888
Let the single issue zealots go form their own party, we don't need them.

When they are gone the GOP will gain more than enough moderate voters from the Democrats to replace the Religous Zealots .

Thanks for at least being honest. I will tell you right now that the Republican Party will be in big trouble if they decide to reject Christian conservatives. I know you don't like to hear this but some six out of seven voting-age Americans are Christians.

What makes evangelical Christians so powerful, Pew found, was their consistency on the issues. "The fact that this group expresses a consistent set of conservative political attitudes and is extremely active politically makes evangelicals Christians a powerful voting bloc,They're more apt to vote than other groups. With priorities going beyond core moral concerns over abortion and homosexuality, two-thirds of self-proclaimed religious conservatives are likely to vote, versus roughly half of all Americans.

This is a very powerful bloc and if people like you say we can get these votes from moderates, think again.

17 posted on 10/05/2003 3:43:50 PM PDT by truthandlife
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To: LPM1888
It's obvious that Chuck Baldwin and the Constitution Party don't consider being a Fiscal Conservative a critical issue.

So how long has Chuck been "vision challenged" anyway?

18 posted on 10/05/2003 3:46:26 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: LPM1888
hen they are gone the GOP will gain more than enough moderate voters from the Democrats to replace the Religous Zealots .

Absurd. Without the Evangelicals the Republican Party would have gone the way of the Whigs in the 1970s.

Face it. Without Evangelical Christian social conservatives, Dems would own both houses of congress and the White House, the 1994 Republican landslide would have never happened, and this forum (if it existed at all) would be filled with speculation as to which Rockefeller/Gerald Ford clone would be most likely to give President Gore a good run before losing in 2004.

42 posted on 10/05/2003 4:29:44 PM PDT by Skooz (All Hail the Mighty Kansas City Chiefs)
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To: LPM1888
It's obvious that Chuck Baldwin and the Constitution Party don't consider being a Fiscal Conservative a critical issue.

Neither apparently, do Republicans. The Congress has been spending like a bunch of drunken whores. Wilson raised taxes after promising not to do so. Arnold will likely follow suit only through fees and fines that ammount to little more than official extortion, at least, that's what he says he'll do.

Of course, he also says he will force the entire State and Local governments to replace their vehicle fleets with outrageously expensive "clean vehicles," he promises to build hydrogen stations to fuel a non-existent vehicle fleet, he promises to regulate and enforce indoor air quality standards in private homes, he promises to destroy all timber harvesting in the Sierra (which will burn it to a crisp and cut local tax revenue), his "pollution" control plans will hand over ag land to developers and keep the maintain the State's critical shortage in electrical generating capacity...

What a guy!

45 posted on 10/05/2003 4:35:05 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: LPM1888
Gee, is that what Heinlein would have thought? Was he about trolling for moderates? Aren't atheists often irreligious zealots?

What is a fiscal conservative? Someone who balances budgets? Would that be by raising taxes or lowering spending? If Arnie follows his puppetmaster Pete Wilson's example, his election will result in colossal tax increases to pay off Warren Buffett's friends.

If you think so much of Arnie, run him as a Libertarian Party candidate. He is certainly no Republican.

Fiscal conservatism cannot stand on its own.

120 posted on 10/05/2003 7:23:52 PM PDT by BlackElk (Schwarzenegger is as Republican as Pete Wilson or George McGovern or Hillary!!!)
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To: LPM1888
It's obvious that Chuck Baldwin and the Constitution Party don't consider being a Fiscal Conservative a critical issue. Let the single issue zealots go form their own party, we don't need them.


More BS. Go to their website and read their platform. They have NOTHING in common with anything you've said.
131 posted on 10/05/2003 9:19:56 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
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To: LPM1888
Let the single issue zealots go form their own party, we don't need them. When they are gone the GOP will gain more than enough moderate voters from the Democrats to replace the Religous Zealots .

In other words, you'll turn the Republican Party into the Democratic Party. We are typical of what the GOP used to stand for. You are typical of the Neo-Con group that is rapidly becoming Left because you have no principles. You merely wish to win..just like in high school.
133 posted on 10/05/2003 9:26:29 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
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