CA: GOP divided over Schwarzenegger's speech in Indian Wells

Riverside Press-Enterprise ^ | 9/8/07 | Michelle DeArmond

[NormsRevenge]

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Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at the California Republican Party convention in Indian Wells, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

[NormsRevenge]

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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at the California Republican Party convention in Indian Wells, Calif., Friday, Sept. 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

[Redbob]

"...the party's rank-and-file members..."

Read: "Voters"

[fieldmarshaldj]

What diehard Republicans would still be supportive of this ultra-RINO abomination at this late date ?

[Redbob]

""Our party has lost the middle, and we will not regain true political power in California until we get it back."

Which brings up the question:
Is the objective to "regain true political power" by compromising our principles?

Or is it to represent the principles of a group of like-minded voters?

[exit82]

That’s what Arnold does best—divides Republicans.

Who ever thought an Austrian bodybuilder would be the Manchurian Candidate?

Arnold is one of the biggest GOP disappointments ever.

And Arnold—don’t refer to Ronald Reagan-ever-again. You are not fit to kiss the dust off his cowboy boots.

[Cicero]

Arnold is certainly shaping up to be the most destructive Republican politician nationally since Nelson Rockefeller.

Karl Rove intervened to install him. Probably his stupidest move ever.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Who ever thought an Austrian bodybuilder would be the Manchurian Candidate?"

=raises hand=

I got thrown off of FR more than once four years ago for being vocal in denouncing him as a destructive RINO during the recall in support of Tom McClintock, the only true statesman and unapologetic leader that dared to run for Governor. Interesting how Ah-nold's supporters and apologists have all since vanished off of FR.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Rove interfered in my Senate race to install a dunce RINO (Lamar! Alexander) over a distinguished House impeachment manager. He’s not as smart and as magnificent a bastard as we make him out to be. :-\

[calcowgirl]

"I think people have to really evaluate every aspect of his agenda," Dutton said. "We expected him to systematically move toward elimination of (the deficit). He seems to be abandoning that."

Seems to be abandoning? Boy is *that* an understatement!

[calcowgirl]

What diehard Republicans would still be supportive of this ultra-RINO abomination at this late date ?

Diehard TROLLS continue to support him--and bash McClintock at the same time.

[YHAOS]

"Schwarzenegger, who always has been more moderate than the party's rank-and-file members, rankled members when he called for a move to the political center"

Maybe that's because most Conservatives understand that a call for a move the the center is followed almost immediately by an actual move to the rabidly extreme far left.

[calcowgirl]

Who ever thought an Austrian bodybuilder would be the Manchurian Candidate?

30% of the Republican party that refused to vote for him knew exactly what he was. The rest are finally waking up.

[exit82]

You were right—and ahead of your time.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What is "the political center?" I mean, what is it, really?

The "center" is nothing more than forcing the Republican office holder to move further to the left some more. Democrats will NEVER meet the Republican halfway on their end, no, it's always the REPUBLICAN who has to "moderate" or move to the middle. You never see other Democrats or the media advocate that Democrats should move to the center. In fact, those that did, Lieberman and Zell Miller, got crucified for it.

The argument is so bogus that Republicans by now should just ignore it.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Naah, not ahead of my time. My state had just gotten finished with 8 years of a destructive RINO Governor, who then sabotaged his Republican successor candidate for office and, no surprise, helped elect a rodent. It was just merely deja vu all over again (to quote Yogi Berra).

[exit82]

When you explain it that way, it reminds of my former state, NJ and how we got McGreevey as a Governor.

Some days I wonder if the Republican party will last after the 2008 election.

If Hillary gets in, with all of her criminal baggage, the Republicans deserve to go the way of the Whigs.

Here’s to better days on both our coasts.

[exit82]

Very true. California is turning into a mess, like NJ has—my former state. Funny thing how Democrats and RINOs ruin everything they touch.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That’s exactly right, too. The Whitman/Donnie DiFrancesco Country-Clubber RINOs deliberately sandbagged Mayor Schundler. They couldn’t take the risk that he was going to reform the party and deprive them and their flunkies of their patronage privileges. RINOs are more than happy to help rodents if it serves their cause. It may be a long time before NJ gets a Republican Governor again, and even longer before they get a Conservative (and for the record, the last Conservative NJ Governor was a Democrat, Charles Edison, in the early 1940s — he later left the state and helped found the NY Conservative Party).