Posted on 01/13/2006 4:35:43 PM PST by FairOpinion
A recent poll shows the born-again "moderate" Republican governor has gained back some popularity, especially in the Bay Area, and is now in a dead heat with Democratic competitors.
"Our survey demonstrates that Schwarzenegger's retreat from the more conservative rhetoric and agenda he brandished during the latter part of 2005 has paid off among middle-of-the road voters," said Melinda Jackson, director of the Survey and Policy Research Institute at San Jose State University.
The governor's job performance rating among voters in a Democrat-leaning state has climbed from 36 percent positive and 53 percent negative in September, to 40 percent positive and 51 percent negative this month.
(Excerpt) Read more at insidebayarea.com ...
No one is going to argue your point on the Democrats. The radical left succeeded in taking over that party lock, stock, and barrel 32 years ago for good. But, I'll be damned if I let those same factions of corrupt and decayed leftist evil hijack the Republicans, too. Unfortunately, they're already succeeding, those "Republicans" are called "moderates", which are nothing but leftist Democrat cross-dressers AKA RINOs. Ah-nold is a prime example numero uno of one in California... The nephew-in-law of a Democrat President, a Democrat U.S. Attorney-General and Presidential Candidate, and the manslaughering senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and the son-in-law of the running mate of George McGovern, one of the most extreme-left America-hating tickets in the history of the United States. I won't bother mentioning his own father's political affiliation during WW2, but it wasn't our side, either.
So, again, I ask, why in the hell would WE nominate someone of that far-left political pedigree to lead the largest state in the union when he shares virtually NONE of our core CONSERVATIVE beliefs ? See, that's why we're losing, if we haven't lost, the war already. The enemy camp is already in charge -- of OUR own party !
I guess my point is that I'll never take my eye off the dems, not for a minute.
:::nitey nite for now:::
That has no real bearing on how high the turnout was among Republican voters.
He did - and it cost him dearly, apparently. It looks like he's going to ignore the people that ignored him now. You reap what you sew.
This is a blatant lie. Schwarzenegger has always been a Republican.
You sir have NO credibility whatsoever.
Furthermore, he most certainly could have run as a Dem in the recall election. There were a lot of Dems on the ballot and a number of Republicans and other parties as well. You seem to just be making things up as you go along because you have no argument.
Arnold needs to go down to a big defeat. His hard shift to the left is such a betrayal that he must be made into a poster boy.
I don't think this is going to happen. Just the opposite is going to happen. Dems elected to office more recently are now "complaining" about the issues that Repubs usually are on about. The governor has been doing some business which will maintain incomes and revenues for the state -- benefitting the state as a whole. Check mate.
Yeah, thats an ilk response ...
Ever? I voted for the peanut farmer and guvinor moonbeam. Once, each and never again. That realization (never to vote dem) was before the xlinton travesty. Demoncraps aided and abetted a traitor. Each and every one of us in the country are tainted by xlinton's touch, and the closer the touch the more tainted the individual. The demoncrap party displayed to me how traitorously communist they have become. No, I'll never vote for a demoncrap!
Unless that is their ultimate goal ...
Black Elk present and accounted for. Now, to review the posts and respond.
I am not as opposed to Ahhhhnold as I used to be but I am every bit as enthusiastic for McLintock to restore the California GOP and California TO the GOP as ever and then some.
Of course, I live in Illinois and will be concentrating on getting rid of Dick "Eddie Haskell" Durbin. How bad is Dickie Durbin???? Durbin is so bad that I would gladly vote early and often (it's the Chicago way even though I live in rural Illinois) for Barack Obama if they ran against each other. Fortunately, that won't happen. Maybe we can get rid of both before Obama is sworn in as president.
I guess it depends on the meaning of "fair," huh?
Choose a slogan:
California: The Illiteracy and Innumeracy State!!!!
California: The Bankruptcy State!
California: The Eccentric State!
Are any of Ahhhhnold's supporters here known to be pro-aborts???? Pro-lavender hoopla????? In favor of "broadening" our attitudes and our system of tax deductions for those engaged in interspecies unions????
Did you know that, even where there are committed interspecies "unions", neither Bowser nor Persian Fluffums can visit Linda Lovebeads of Rio Linda fame when she (?) is hospitalized, does not automatically inherit Linda's estate on Linda's death and is ineligible for the "spousal" benefit provisions of the mossbacked narrow-minded Social Security Administration???? No Medicare, Puddycare or Poochiecare, either. To say nothing of the discrimination against parrots and the humans who love them. Did I mention polygamy????
Dale, with all due respect, how many Republicans are like you? The majority of California Republicans are lazy. They want all or nothing at all...and that's why they repeatedly get nothing at all.
Absolutely not and quite the contrary. This forum does have an impact on partisan politics.
Freepers were among the first to identify Schwarzenegger. They spread the word. They were part of a small but vocal group that exposed him and helped derail his liberal dreams.
We still have a lot of work to do. The Austrian is still out their trying to increase spending, raise taxes, increase the size of government and restrict our freedoms.
Last I looked, they are separate elections. ;-)
Republicans vote on Tuesday and Dems on Wednesday?
Now you're taking credit? I thought the ilk disavowed any of the damage done to Arnie? Get your story straight.
Do you "feel" that California needs to send an humongous pro-abort delegation to the 2008 GOP convention, despite the status of the California GOP as a "post-office" Republican Party???? (For those in Rio Linda, the comparison is to the Deep South GOPs of the 1950s and earlier that existed only to provide postmasters' jobs to the party "faithful" / nowadays bigger jobs and contracts and MONEY, lovely MONEY!!! to docile windtunnels who otherwise play ball policywise with the Demonratic forces among us.
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