Between watching two good Republicans, state assemblyman Nathan Fletcher and former assemblyman and current Congressional candidate Anthony Adams, leave his party and writing his memoirs, the Governator can’t help but notice the decline of his party. Shocking, right? In a recent opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times he points out that traditional Republicans compromise to move forward and that many of them, such as Presidents T. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan, would be primaried for doing the very things that made them good leaders at least some of the time.
Some Republicans today aren’t even willing to have conversations about protecting the environment, investing in the infrastructure America needs or improving healthcare. By holding their fingers in their ears when those topics arise, these Republicans aren’t just denying themselves a seat at the table; in a state such as California, they also deny a seat to every other Republican.
The emphasis is mine, the accurate insight is all Schwarzenegger.
This certainly isn’t news for the vast majority of us, but it is nice to hear from a politician who’s been in the party for 44 years now. His bravery has to be admired, I think. Certainly some of these same things, in spirit, could be said about a growing number of Democrats and you don’t really see any even former leaders talking about it.
On that note, an excellent quote for us all…
…big ideas don’t often come from small tents.
Highly recommend reading the entire thing.
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The Governator says it well. So…it is time for all you responsible Republicans to get your party back…and there is only one way to do it. Help us re-elect Barack Obama.
The leaders of the GOP will do some soul-searching, and come to the conclusion that they weren’t CONSERVATIVE enough.
Rinse, repeat, until the last one leaves the party and turns out the lights.
Especially while watching my own party go down this road. Sometimes partisanship rules, but the sun has to come out eventually. Why not this December?
With all the major issues that must be dealt with in December (raising the debt ceiling, expiration of the Bush tax cuts, Medicare Doc fix, Alternative Minimum Tax patch, and of course the $1.2 trillion in meat cleaver budget cuts, etc.), the November election results will have far-reaching (ok, when do they not?) impact, all in a brief timespan to deal with them.
Will lameducks in either party vote their conscience, and not their party’s ideology? Will post-partisanship get another chance, or will the victors see a mandate to crush the agenda of the other side? Can the minority (in either the Senate or House) continue to frustrate the majority out of spite, or (gasp) principle?
I will settle for Obama winning, and the Tea Party freshmen getting sent packing so that the GOP attitude of “if Dems are for it, we’re agin’ it!) will be tossed into the dustbin of history.
I don’t want to go too far off here, so I’ll just say that it’s really interesting and you should if you haven’t been.
The automatic Euro decline, I think, takes on a subject you’ve broached often recently. And that’s just the start.
I’ve only followed the headlines regarding this election. Obviously, it deserves our close attention — given the course of events in the EU will also have tremendous impact on the US.
It is definitely encouraging.
Sarkozy pandered to the ultra-rightwing, and still lost. That is a very good sign. And we are fortunate that the previous Socialist front-runner, DSK, took himself out of contention, allowing a moderate technocrat take on the challenge of changing the direction of the EU economic policies from slash and starve to stimulate and grow.
But the UK is headed back to Labour, except for London’s Mayor.
And I have another whole thing that I really want to talk about, but don’t have the patience or temperament to get out just now.
Thanks for the mini Europe talk, even if it was in general. Twenty years of PMQ’s, and an internship (booyah), without a like minded buddy. Ms. Puppy knows all about it, but apparently doesn’t want to encourage me with a response. 🙂
off the cliff.
By that I mean the party’s refusal to override these 47 tea bagging idiots in the House and address the crises that are bi-partisan.
Even the most knuckle headed conservative Ayn Rand acolyte knows you die when the bridge collapses, the food’s tainted, and the water catches on fire.
At this point, republicans with families, responsible, level headed people that are simply trying to be a citizen, provide, and live a nice life, are seeing a clear choice between a lunatic fringe led crazy party and a more sensible one, albeit, not “their party”.
While the “Reagan Revolution” had a lot more to do with white angst than anything else, and the term “Reagan Democrats” was dog whistle politics calling the racist whites over to the dark side, this awakening is real.
While the Democratic Party is still unattractive to many indoctrinated repubs, repubettes, and republings, they can still see the clear choice between red idiocy and a “let’s try to fix this” message.
California, show us the way.
Yeah, rocco, that was my point and definitely Schwarzenegger’s, too.
(So many of my keystrokes wasted…)
Thanks for proving my point twice today. Super cool!
Too much coffee’s no excuse.
Sorry.
Happens to us all.