Posted on 12/08/2005 3:53:30 PM PST by SierraWasp
I'm pretty well fed up with those who don't think Party Primaries and Party Leadership matter that much! I don't want any third parties when we can't even get our danged elected officials to honor the Parties we have, nor their stated platforms!!!
The California Republican Party making threats to the elected Governor?
He is successful, and they are not.
Are we letting these "leaders" in on what each of us thinks about this?
He is successful at exactly WHAT???
???Send this boob a membership in FRee Republic...
I think Miss Bebitch Jeffe is right.
Governor Schwarzennegger is Governor to ALL Californians; not just Republicans or conservatives. Last election proved and made clear a number of issues, IMHO.
That being said -- There is no money in the world sufficient to have me wish to be in Susan Kennedy's position: A Dem and working with THIS Repub Governor. This is the wrench on her, not the other way around, IMHO.
"There are obviously understandable concerns given Susan's work prior to coming to the administration, and that makes it a good story," he said. "But my caution to Republicans that are talking about rather drastic measures (is) they are overreacting. They should judge the governor on how he governs, and that's all that matters."
Stutzman is right.
Several Republicans said they are watching for signs that the governor has moved to the left on policy issues, some of which will arise next month.
I don't think he will; I do foresee some "feints", however. And if folks can stop with the kneejerk reactions, and watch the hidden "other" hand, they might begin to see some sense. (I'm not hopeful of seeing that here in FR, nonetheless, lol...)
"This is a governor who repealed a $4 billion car tax, brought the state back from insolvency without raising taxes, fixed workers comp and helped create 425,000 new jobs," he said. "He also just got done waging a campaign on some issues that Republicans have waited years to be brought to the ballot.
Meant to ping you to post #7.
A California state Senator is on record warning the Austrian to be truthful to the electorate. Of the four claims offered by Stutzman, only one, job growth, has any basis in fact; and only because Stutzman used the term helped.
I suspect Schwarzenegger and McCain are preparing to reactivate the Reform Party under different management and a different name. (I think they'll go back to early American history and revive the old Federalist Party label.)
Not sure what he was thinking.
I also would not trust her around the party information.
They have demonstrated they would do anything to win
The role of third parties in US political history has chiefly been to refocus the intentions of the two major parties. They serve the same useful purpose that is the basis of traffic citations.
Exactley WASP...Arnold is not only foolish, he is also arogant...ie("He has agreed to meet with them")
Your damn right you had better meet with them Arnold...you rhino pos...
Proud to have not voted for this fool.
All it had going for it was the fact that the American people were fed up with the radical left-wing nominating electorate of the Democrats and the radical right-wing nominating electorate of the Republicans. Neither party could think outside the box for solutions. Perot created a party of the Radical Middle, conservative on economic issues, but libertarian on social issues. By not being tied to the Religious Right, the unions or the blacks, Perot's party of the Radical Middle was in a position to push truly radical changes to American problems.
Granted, with no Reform Party folks running for House or Senate, President Perot would have been greeted by a Congress that would have worked 24/7 to destroy his presidency. Governing would have been impossible.
But to say that third parties never work is to be ignorant of our history. The Republicans started as a third party when the Whigs lost their way over slavery.
While Schwarzenegger is constitutionally unable to run for president, McCain is the most popular politician in the country, except possibly for Rudy Giuliani. A movement of the Radical Middle could split both the Democrats and the Republicans and upend the system entirely.
If you build a political movement out of independents, RINO's and DINO's, you have an electoral majority.
Now, he's taking away an opportunity to groom a future GOP governor! What was he thinking? It's not so much that he has a former Gray Davis Chief-of-Staff for his own (well, it is, really), but that he isn't taking the opportunity to let a CA GOP person take that position to be groomed to run for Governor one day! What better place is there for someone to get to intimately know the workings of Sacramento, to build a network of supporters, to learn the issues, than the Chief-of-Staff slot?
Why would Schwarzenegger deny the CA GOP the benefits of holding that position?
-PJ
Not as you'd think, or as her personality would indicate.
:-D )))
Pretend it's spelled "Bebbitch".
As some jerk says, the governor has a right to appoint whoever he wants.
What he fails to mention is that the voters and/or the party have a right to throw him out next chance they get.
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