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Schwarzenegger Implores GOP To Follow Script of His Sequel: Court the Center
Washington Post ^ | Nov. 10, 2006 | John Pomfret

Posted on 11/10/2006 9:06:56 PM PST by FairOpinion

In his victory speech Tuesday night to a confetti-swamped crowd at the Beverly Hilton, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had a message for the rest of the Republican Party after its worst defeat in decades.

Follow "the California way," he said. "We are proving to the nation that there is another way to go, a better path to solve problems."

Schwarzenegger's landslide victory in a largely Democratic state illustrates the growing power of moderate candidates and the electoral appeal of bipartisanship, and it could contain important lessons for Republicans and Democrats as they seek to position themselves in the future, analysts and politicians said.

"If I was a Republican National Committee chair, I would hire Arnold out and teach Republicans what is necessary to put together a winning campaign," said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst at the University of Southern California. "He really is the poster boy of what Republicans have denied for so long. Elections are won from the center."

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: arnoldlegacy; elections; gopvictory2008; leftisnotcenter; liberals; rino; rinonator; schwarznegger
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance


Yep, it is, most assuredly.


41 posted on 11/10/2006 9:34:13 PM PST by onyx (I'm now a minority and victim of the democrats, but with full and free entitlements!)
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To: Ol' Sparky; SpiritofElijah

UNFORTUNATELY, that is a matter that we will likely have to fight.

Do an Archive FR search for: president AND arnold

Teddy let this go quiet for a year. It will be back.



Arnold For President
Posted by SpiritofElijah
On News/Activism 11/15/2004 11:29:35 PM PST · 48 replies · 720+ views

World Net News ^
SACRAMENTO (Nov. 14) - A new Silicon Valley-based organization will begin running statewide advertisements backing a constitutional amendment that would let Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other foreign-born citizens run for president.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1280969/posts


42 posted on 11/10/2006 9:35:11 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: FairOpinion

Well then they will spend the next two years dealing with a democratic lead house and senate. Hopefully, two years of that will get them out of their voting coma.


43 posted on 11/10/2006 9:35:31 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner; FairOpinion
You gentlemen are correct. Arnold is offering the Republicans a way out of this situation.

The country doesn't particularly like either the Moonbat Left or the Religious Right. People don't want self-described "righteous conservatives" -- or even "righteous liberals" -- telling them how to live their private lives. They see these people as self-righteous prigs and view them as a general pain in the ass.

With Comrade Pelosi in charge, the Democrats are about to take a hard turn to the left, a turn not supported by the general population. If the Republicans position themselves as a Center-Right party, and not a pure Right Wing party, they can hog the center, splinter the Democrats, finish them off in 2 years -- and shovel them onto the ash heap of history.

Arnold is offering a way to go in for the kill.

44 posted on 11/10/2006 9:35:46 PM PST by Publius (A = A)
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To: Al Simmons
Theodore Roosevelt and W. H. Taft, his hand picked clone that eclipsed him in more ways than one, started the progressive road to Socialism.
45 posted on 11/10/2006 9:36:08 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: madison10

Good books--as are those by Clausewitz and Tzu, but I'd prefer they start with the Ten Commandments and the Book of Proverbs!


46 posted on 11/10/2006 9:37:04 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: FairOpinion
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. "

Yeah, yeah, to hell with principles and better government. Celebrity and self-aggrandizement is all that matters.

47 posted on 11/10/2006 9:37:23 PM PST by Mojave
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To: FairOpinion
Heaven forbid Arnold actually tries to stand up for fellow Republicans, or even help proselytize conservative economic values, ala Milton Friedman.

I worked a bit on Arnold's campaign 3 years ago, but his antics this last year have been all about winning and at best being a stopgap, and hasn't been at all about leading.

After his bitter losses in the election last year - brought about by poor political choices and bad timing - he neutered himself, and thus has been a failure as a GOP leader . His results have been that he kept mega-mecha-moron Busty out of office, keeps a check on the legislature, and maybe kick Boxer out of one Senate seat in 2010.

That's better than nothing, but I'm not going to look for him for "leadership" strategies, when all he offers now is "popularity" strategies.

48 posted on 11/10/2006 9:37:29 PM PST by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity.)
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To: FairOpinion

Gimme a break. The center of America isn't the values of leftist California. And the center is not relative to where the Democrats our today.


49 posted on 11/10/2006 9:37:37 PM PST by rjp2005 (Lord have mercy on us)
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To: digger48

BEAUTIFUL!


50 posted on 11/10/2006 9:38:58 PM PST by Just Lori (Blessed are the peacemakers: ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, MARINES, COAST GUARD!!!!)
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To: rjp2005

Which part of the "Republican lost both the House and the Senate" don't you comprehend?"

So where were the "value" voters?


51 posted on 11/10/2006 9:39:03 PM PST by FairOpinion (Start working on 2008 Republican win strategy NOW.)
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To: L.N. Smithee
Magnificent? NO. Bastard? YES!

And the horse he rode in on.

52 posted on 11/10/2006 9:40:07 PM PST by Mojave
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To: FairOpinion

Arnold didn't court the center; he courted Democrats.


53 posted on 11/10/2006 9:40:10 PM PST by My2Cents
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To: FairOpinion

"If Republicans learn these Machiavellian lessons, they will recapture Congress in 2008 and elect a Republican president."

It isn't about electing a Republican president. Republican is just a label. What we want is a Conservative president. Arnold is not a Conservative. Politically he has more in common with Democrats. In any state other than California he'd have run as a Democratic.


54 posted on 11/10/2006 9:40:29 PM PST by SmoothTalker
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
In short, you just can't argue with his success and maybe he does have a winning formula.

The majority of America is not as wacked-out as California.

55 posted on 11/10/2006 9:41:14 PM PST by My2Cents
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

hello we just lost the house and senate.


56 posted on 11/10/2006 9:42:21 PM PST by fatima
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To: digger48

Well, Arnold WON, while Republicans lost both the House and Senate.

So whose advice is better, that of a winner or a major loser?

If Republicans refuse to learn they will just condemned themselves to a very long minority status, while the Dems pass their socialist agenda, if not in the next two years, then under President Hillary.

It seems like conservatives learned nothing from Bill Clinton winning the election with 42% of the vote, because of them, and not from this election.


57 posted on 11/10/2006 9:42:38 PM PST by FairOpinion (Start working on 2008 GOP win strategy NOW.)
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To: FairOpinion

Hey, FO, Arnold won on Tuesday. Why are you still shilling for him?


58 posted on 11/10/2006 9:43:06 PM PST by My2Cents
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To: SmoothTalker

"What we want is a Conservative president. "


And how is electing a Dem majority and President Hillary going to help that?


59 posted on 11/10/2006 9:43:33 PM PST by FairOpinion (Start working on 2008 GOP win strategy NOW.)
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To: FairOpinion
"Republican lost both the House and the Senate"

Under the "leadership" of Duf, Arnold and the rest of the RINOS, we lost both the state Senate and the state Assembly. Again.

60 posted on 11/10/2006 9:44:11 PM PST by Mojave
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