Governor: GOP is on its way to irrelevance here (CA)

[rndmprsn]

is Schwarzenegger making a third-way out in CA?

i do like some of his position i have to admit, on global warming/environment, immigration etc...some i def do not like tho.

http://www.modbee.com/2062/story/66851.html

For nearly two years, Gov. Schwarzenegger has been turning the other cheek at attacks from conservative Republican activists who claimed he was not really one of them, a Republican in name only. While he disagreed, he never bothered to make a public case for his true beliefs: That the activists, not the governor, are out of touch with the party's voters. That changed Friday.

At a state Republican Party convention in Indian Wells, Schwarzenegger lectured the mostly conservative delegates about their party's increasing irrelevance in California, where Democrats control both houses of the Legislature, both U.S. Senate seats, most statewide offices and a majority of the congressional delegation...

...Led by social conservatives who oppose gay rights, abortion rights and immigration -- and, in many cases, legal immigration -- the party has turned off voters who might be open to its other beliefs in support of individual freedom, entrepreneurs, economic growth and smaller government. The party has lost 370,000 voters in the past two years and today represents just 34 percent of the electorate.

Schwarzenegger told the audience that their party is "dying at the box office. We are not filling the seats."

The shame, he said, is that independent voters are turned off by the party's focus on a few positions that represent only a handful of loud, but influential, party members.

[AX10]

1. He's jumping off the sinking ship. He'll still be the corporatist...

he's always been, but just not within the Republican party.

[Ilsa]

5. Yeah, the old GOP "purists" need to rename themselves

The Corporate Party of America or "The Glass Ain't Half-Full, It's all Mine Party"

[Arugula Latte]

2. No one could have predicted the batshit nutbag fundy freaks would damage the GOP

Such a shame. I weep for them ...


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[bunkerbuster1]

3. or the breeching of the levees...

Seriously, though, Swartzenschmucker has been known to say some rational things on occasion. It sounds like he's not thrilled with the "Split CA's Electoral Votes" initiative either.

[Mythsaje]

4. He's never been on board with the crazy culture war wing of the party...

Now if he'd just realize that the corporatist, supply side economics crap was just as insane, he'd actually have a chance at redemption.