Posted on 07/14/2008 6:04:04 AM PDT by kellynla
Political flip-floppers have a fan: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In that vein, Schwarzenegger advised Republican presidential candidate John McCain to move from the right to the center for the general election _ and suggested his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, move to the center from the left.
"Flip-flopping is getting a bad rap, because I think it is great," Schwarzenegger told ABC's "This Week" in an interview broadcast Sunday.
"Someone has made a mistake. I mean, someone has, for 20 or 30 years, been in the wrong place with his idea and with his ideology and says, 'You know something? I changed my mind. I am now for this.' As long as he's honest or she's honest, I think that is a wonderful thing. You can change your mind," Schwarzenegger said. "I have changed my mind on things and there is nothing wrong with it."
Schwarzenegger said Republican candidates, after getting nominated, can "wander a little bit more to the left, and hopefully he (McCain) will do that. And the same is with Obama, that what he has done consistently has been very much to the left and he's now more and more going to the right."
In 2004, Republicans charged that Democratic nominee John Kerry was a flip-flopper on a number of issues and criticized him accordingly. This year's presidential campaign has brought similar charges and counter-charges between the Republican and Democratic camps. But Schwarzenegger, an advocate of governing from the center, shrugs off changes in policy.
"That's what they have to do. In politics out there, they always say, 'Well, now, I don't know anymore what he really stands for. He has just changed his mind' ... and he's flip-flopping and all those kinds of things," he said.
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Father, forgive him. He sleeps with a Kennedy.
Every time someone asks me why I will not vote for McCain, I point out how much damage Arnie has done the Repubs in Calif.
With friends like this, who needs enemies.
I don’t recognize the Republican party anymore.
“As long as he’s honest or she’s honest, I think that is a wonderful thing. You can change your mind,” Schwarzenegger said. “I have changed my mind on things and there is nothing wrong with it.”
Well, Mr. Governator, many people would put it nicely and say you misled the voters. Some would put it less nicely and say you’re just another lying politician.
Some people have principles and stick to them; others don’t. I suspect Ah-nold is one of those whose principles depend on which way the wind is blowing.
3-boobs running for governor!
But in O'bama's case, what we have is a change of words - he blames it on "poor phrasing" or "taken out of context" or some other misunderstanding on the part of the listener.
A real person would be capable of saying "Yes, I believed that, but now, I believe this, because..." and not sound like a greasy weasel.
O'bama sounds like a greasy weasel.
I can no longer stand to hear this fatuous fathead's voice. He's totally under the influence of the dope-hampered, harebrained Hollywood elite mob of morons -- and the supercilious Kennedys.
He frets over the masses' threat to the environment and decrees new regulations to save the planet from us as he commutes by a private jet to Sacramento from Los Angeles. Go figure. The guy's a wealthy loony liberal, even more phony as governor than any screen role.
A recent forum here compared Michelle to Cindy. That post missed a good part of the point. Compare what Cindy did before she met John to what Michelle did before she met Obama. Again, Michelle panders, Cindy is genuine.
Obama is bad news and I wish we had a means by which to convey this to a rather uninformed electorate.
Okay, but first McCain has to move the right, Ahnold.
What is the difference between flip-flopping and changing one’s mind because of new data?
“Schwarzenegger advised Republican presidential candidate John McCain to move from the right to the center for the general election”
Arnold you dipsh*t, if McCain goes any further left he might as well slap a “D” next to his name, hit his knees and kiss Harry Reids’ ring!
They should have elected the whore.
Oh wait, they did.
Arnold is far to the left of McCain and has made that abundantly clear in recent days.
Actually, Arnold hasn't changed at all in recent days. He's been saying the same thing for a few years now.
On the other hand, McCain has been following the Schwarzenegger model to a tee. With his co-opting of the Dem agenda and calling it "bipartisan", his utter contempt for conservatives and anyone who does not agree with him, his pledge to appoint leftists in his administration, and most recently his hiring of Arnie's campaign operatives.
McCain will do to the nation what Schwarzenegger has done to California and the state GOP.
I think he's already accomplished 2 out of 3.
Your words deserve to be carved into an appropriate monument and installed in the lobby at GOP Big Tent RINO Central in Washington. Just inside the front door, where all of the RINOs will trip over it on their way inside, thus being reminded of their role in this impending disaster.
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