Posted on 07/24/2006 10:11:36 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Sorry to spoil your ananlysis but I am hardly a fanatic. As a matter of fact if all voters thought the way I do we would never have ended up with two parties that are essentially the same. Voting for a "compromise" candidate does nothing and accomplishes nothing except put someone into office who is going to push for changes to laws that undermine the fabric of our country and constitution.
This has been the case since at least FDR and back as far as the middle of the 19th century if truth were known.
People like you who think that "compromise" actually settles something are the true fanatics and the ones who have led our country down the path to the point where we have people like Arnold sitting in the governors chair "wooing" the libs. I would rather see him stand by conservative principals and lose the next election as to cave in and send CA further down the road to a communist "paradise" which is what you seem to think is the right thing to do. I didn't vote for Arnold in the re-call, I voted for another candidate in the primary this year, and I won't vote for Angelides but I sure as hell won't vote for RINO Arnold either because he is the same stripe as his democrat counter part.
I will vote for the republican candidate for Lt. Governor and think that he is the man that the republican party should have stood behind to begin with in the recall, if they had he would have won and we would have had at least part of a term with a real conservative in the governor's chair. As it is we ended up with blow hard Arnold who thought he could talk to the Dems to death and when he found out that didn't work he Chickened out and swung all the way over to their side.
If believing in the constitution, capitilism and the rule of law is being a fanatic then color me fanatical.
As for always losing, don't bet on it, my candidates win as often as not and I will continue to vote for the most conservative candidate and have the courage of my convictions, too bad you don't have the courage of yours!
Free market? Like government meddling to reduce the price of healthcare (through socialist programs)? Or subsidizing solar panels, hydrogen highways, and the like? Sorry--any admiration he declared for Milton Friedman must have been personal because he doesn't seem to embrace or understand any of the fundamental philosophies he said were the foundation of his beliefs.
I wish there were more "fanatics" like you. :-)
Actually there is a long history of governments subsidizing new technoligies to provide them with the start capital and lower the risk so that they can achieve efficiencies of scale and eventually be comeptitive.
Or aren't you fond of things like nuclear energy, the internet, electrification, highways, telephones, etc.?
Green/Clean-tech is the future of Silicon Valley. This is a wise investment. Your criticism is only a reflection of your myopia.
>>>>A lot of true conservatives in California seem to want a genuine conservative who cannot get elected. That I find strange.
If Schwarzy hadn't been on the recall ballot in 2003, a good chance conservative Tom McClintock would have been elected Governor. There is nothing strange about people wanting a return to fiscal responsibility, limited govt, tax reform and higher moral standards. While California remains mired in political liberalism, its still possible to turn things around. The right conservative can get elected in California.
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