Posted on 02/26/2006 5:27:29 PM PST by NormsRevenge
My feeling as well.
personally i think Arnold is as good and CA is going to get. CA is no longer the state that brought Reagan to America. Too many moonbats.
NO, HE IS NOT! He is being so now for his advantage, but the special election did not have the Republican party loving his behavior at all. It was my complaint about him as well.
I think what he is doing now though is a wise move.
Reagan?
My post would certainly not put him in that category. I'm talking about the democrats who come to the party saying they have "seen the light", then proceed to reject the platform and try to turn the party into a bunch of socialists. The "leadership" won't even support a resolution to balance the budget? Give me a break! With friends like that, who needs enemies?
I think the two issues we have in this state during liberal occupation will be to deny Democrats as much power as possible and to do grass roots education of the new voters for the future.
I think the two issues we have in this state during liberal occupation will be to deny Democrats as much power as possible and to do grass roots education of the new voters for the future.
That logic does not prove out.
Republicans haven't had the majority of registrants since 1932. Since there have only been 4 Democrats in the last century to hold the Governor's office in California (Culbert Olson, Gray Davis, and a couple of Browns), that pretty much negates the the argument that Republicans (in more than name only) can't win in California since Democrats have the majority.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1572980/posts?page=43#43
Why do you think only "superstars" have potential for winning? Was Gray Davis a "superstar"? How about Deukmejian? This new Hollywood casting approach to selecting politicians is misguided, imo.
I don't know of anyone here who is talking about a candidate who is "completely conservative" on all issues. But at this point, we have almost nothing conservative, and very little that is republican. Bigger spending, bigger borrowing, gun control, taxpayer subsidies to economically non-viable industry, special rights to homosexuals, global warming boondoggles, etc. etc. etc. Since when is it against the Republican platform to balance the budget? The most fundamental of principles are being abandoned.
What I mean by a conservative superstar is someone who is very attractive for all voters in CA.
Someone who would draw from the left enough to win over Democrats.
Like an Arnold, but far more conservative would be really great. I don't see anyone like that for us right now.
The issue is, who can draw votes from the left to get a conservative and conservative platform into office? That is a SUPERSTAR to me in this state, because we are outnumbered by Democrat voters.
We have no superstar conservative candidate that could appeal to any of the Democrats to get elected...Your clarification really doesn't say much different. You and I just do not agree on this. I contend that ideas can win elections and make a candidate popular based on their defined principles and through their actions. I don't care how popular, charismatic, or handsome a candidate is; I care about what and how they think and what they will actually do! Past governors that won have not been particularly popular or charismatic. More recently, celebrity won in the Recall election--not ideas. Everyone was so caught up in the media circus, they didn't look at the leftist nature of the environmental platform being offered and other obvious signs that this was a major leap left uder the (R) label.
You concluded:
... so politicians have to slide left to keep Democrats out.Left from what? When all that is offered by the party is a bunch of mush, how far left do you exactly propose we "slide"? Which principles are you willing to abandon? The CA GOP party wouldn't even sign a resolution calling for balancing the budget! Or for responsible borrowing!
This grand strategery is a loser, imo.
Actually, union membership has declined. I believe it is about 15% of all workers today. Back in the early 80s, it exceeded 20%.
Should we reregister as Dems, and if so, whom should we vote for in the primary? The state will not regain sentience until the fiscal meltdown. Pity I own so much real estate in California. I am in the center of the coming storm, perhaps. Such is life.
Sad.
The toxic bit is that most of that 15% work for the government, particularly in the schools (no surprise, because only monopolistic or oligopolistic employers can really hand out more bucks per union power without going out of business). The market is a harsh mistress. As an aside, as teachers unionized, the student test scores went down. The correlation is quite statistically significant per the studies I have read. Sad.
Yes, in the private sector (any competitive venue) they have declined or closed businesses down.
In government though, they are like a cancer and there is a lot of it embedded or attached to government.
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