He's laughing with you, not at you, cuz he's honest.
Posted on 09/02/2003 10:05:05 PM PDT by HadEnough
The Oui Republican Print Friendly Format E-Mail this to a Friend By George Neumayr Published 9/3/2003 12:04:00 AM
Arnold Schwarzenegger, not yet ready to play a Republican on television, planned to duck Wednesday's gubernatorial debate. Here we have the four-corners pampered celebrity offense. Schwarzenegger will only appear at one debate, a mid-September event that gives the candidates the questions in advance. Schwarzenegger can learn his lines for that one.
Schwarzenegger must chuckle at the ease with which he has manipulated this race. He only had to toss a few bones toward Republicans to get them to jump up on his lap. He made vague anti-tax sounds at one press conference and he is suddenly a Republican we can all trust. How many times will the Jim Jeffordses have to burn Republicans before they realize that liberal Republicans always govern like Democrats?
Schwarzenegger's statement that he wouldn't raise taxes unless there is an emergency is hardly reassuring. The state is in an emergency! Does that justify a tax hike? We'll see.
Unless a Republican is explicitly and philosophically opposed to new taxes he will eventually raise them. It is not hard to imagine a Governor Schwarzenegger raising taxes "for the children." His automatic dismissal of cuts to education spending -- he won't even consider them, despite the California educational system's reputation as a bloated bureaucracy and gravy train for hack teachers -- is telling.
It is clear that he has no concept of limited government. True, he says the state shouldn't spend money it doesn't have. But this just implies that it is okay to kick-start the spending once tax revenues roll in. That the state should only perform the few functions the people can't perform for themselves is not an idea in his head, as is clear from his remark that the "children" get first crack at the state treasury. Statists talk about "before-school and after-school programs"; conservatives talk about before-school and after-school parents.
Downplaying his adviser Warren Buffett's pro-tax positions, Schwarzenegger says that both the left and the right are represented in his campaign. Actually, it is only the left and the center. Wilsonites are not the right. Pete Wilson engineered the largest tax hike in California state history. Richard Riordan, another influence on Schwarzenegger, is also an avowed tax-hiker, once saying that "We must be willing to increase the tax dollars for schools. Pulling up the ladders will not be enough to protect us from the crime and the ultimate need for more tax dollars to take care of increasing social problems."
Like Riordan, Schwarzenegger has said that he is "very liberal" about social programs. How will he pay for these very liberal social programs? Social liberals never end up fiscal conservatives, because statism depends upon the financing of fiscal liberalism.
Unless Schwarzenegger grasps that government should only do what the people can't do for themselves, there is no reason to believe that he will govern as a fiscal conservative. Moreover, the social problems he wants government to solve were created in large part by the liberal morality he espouses. The irresponsible ethos he casually discussed in his comically obscene, exhumed Oui interview -- and which he still at some level accepts, as evident from his Howard Stern appearances -- has contributed to the pathologies that drive the expansion of government. Schwarzenegger is a "children's activist" who supports the sexual-revolution morality that hurts children.
If a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual adoption Democrat with a history of group sex were in the race, Republicans would consider that candidate a danger to the commonweal. So why does all of this become acceptable when the candidate has an "R" after his name? What does it profit a party to win and lose its soul? Now we even hear the same Republicans who lamented the Clintonization of politics rejoice that it will spare their candidate further scrutiny.
The race is now down to three candidates -- a liberal Democrat, a Republican with Democratic views, and a real Republican, Tom McClintock. He is a Republican rarity in the state, a politician with a functioning intellect and backbone. So clearly he is not electable. It never occurs to Republicans that this fatalism about conservatives like McClintock guarantees that they will never win. The fatalism fulfills itself. Yes, a half of a loaf is better than none. But if Schwarzenegger wins conservatives will be lucky to even get crumbs.
He's laughing with you, not at you, cuz he's honest.
Tell me montag813, I'm aweful intrigued, in your political wisdom, considering you post your political opinion on here, would you say that (R)nold will not raise taxes in California? He's anti tax ya know, is that good enough?
I just wanted to know given your knowledge of whether someone is kidding about being a conservative if you could answer that on September 3, 2003. Thanks.
I had nothing but respect for Mr. McClintock before he decided to derail the GOP's chances for victory, and soul his soul to the Indian Cosa Nostra. How is this "hatred"?
And YES, a vote for Tom is a vote for Aztlan. This is beyond question, no matter how "old" you think the concept is.
Unless a Republican is explicitly and philosophically opposed to new taxes he will eventually raise them.
That’s the god’s honest.
"Having RINO Whitman win the state house is about getting NJ for Bush in 2000!"
"Having RINO George Ryan win the state house is about getting Ill. for Bush in 2000!"
"Having RINO Ridge win the state house is about getting Penn. for Bush in 2000!"
"Having RINO Pataki win the state house is about getting NY for Bush in 2000!"
"Having RINO Cellucci win the state house is about getting Mass. for Bush in 2000!"
"Having RINO Rowland win the state house is about getting CT for Bush in 2000!"
"Having RINO Linc Almond win the state house is about getting RI for Bush in 2000!"
Tom announced his candidacy long before the movie star did. He had a plan to fix California's problems years ago - Arnold doesn't have one yet. It was Arnold that decided to derail the conservative's chances for victory - bought and paid for by the Kennedy clan.
Ahh, so you see the battered-Republican trend too. Glad I'm not the only one.
Go Arnold
Bwahahahahaha.
Go Arnold
Huh? I know you are at least TRYING to refer to this, but what point were you trying to make?
Questions given ahead of time to candidates
No questions from audience
No rebuttal time.
Security
Mc
Say montag813, if that were true, why was you post banned?
Still waiting on your answer as to whether (R)nold will raise taxes in the Golden State of California. *taps foot*
Bwahahahahaha. Y'all in Sacramento are really gonna luv bustamecha.
Go Arnold
Wellllll, now he has just what he needs ! He will get the questions well ahead of the debate, and all he has to do is memorize the answers. No one can question him on the answer from what I heard.
Mc
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