Arnold Knows What People Need…And It’s Not Republicans
Arnold Schwarzenegger admits that what America wants and needs is not what the Republican Party is offering. h/t Crooks and liars. On “This Week” he spoke like an American, not just a Republican.
Remember that so many times there’s dialogue about, you know, we have to go back to our core values. What is that? What is core? How far does core go back in history in America, the word core? Does it go back 30 years? Does it go back 50 years? Because we know that Teddy Roosevelt talked about universal health care. So they’re off the core for a long time ago already. He has talked about protecting our environment. So they’ve been off for a long time on that. I mean, let’s be honest. Ronald Reagan — let’s go to Eisenhower, for instance. Eisenhower has built the highway system in America and he’s poured billions of dollars into infrastructure. Where Republicans today say, well, that’s spending. We shouldn’t spend. That’s not spending. That’s investing in the future of America.
Eisenhower was also responsible for huge investment in our educational system.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Sure this goon wants to talk – he’s about to beg for a ton of Federal money to pay for the fire damage. Where was all this speaking “like and American not just a Republican” when he was saying this about Barack Obama a few weeks ago:
“he needs to do something about those skinny legs. I’m going to make him do some squats.”
“And then we’re going to make him do some biceps curls to beef up those scrawny little arms,”
“But if he could only do something about putting some meat on his ideas.”
No doubt he’ll be first in one for some of that “meat”. What a disgusting creep he is.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
“…we have to go back to our core values. What is that?”
I think Arnold makes a fine point, and the Republicans’ problem is they’ve taken the “fringe” as their “base”, which is why they’ve been “off the core for a long time”.
November 17th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
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November 17th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
If Rep’s would stop worrying about and catering to the radical right wing “base” of their party they might be able to identify their core again. As long as they continue to attempt to placate the base they will have no viability as a party.
November 17th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Just curious,
How do you so-called libs define the base of the Republican party?
November 17th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Another question, 4Patriots, is, what is the core values of the Democratic party?
November 17th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Just curious, how do Republicans define their base? Again, what are the core values of the Republican party?
November 17th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Susan,
I’m not real sure right now what defines the Republican base. I consider myself a conservative. As a conservative, I believe that life begins at conception, lower taxes, including elimination of all corporate taxes, the right to keep and bear arms, less government involvement in our daily lives, personal responsibility, elimination of affirmative action, less regulation, reduction of the powers of the EPA, personal property rights, going back to the gold standard, secret ballot for union representation, etc…
November 17th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Republican base – Skinheads, 2nd hand car salesmen, radio talk-show hosts, animal abusers, wine-tasters, middle management types, child-molesters, bible-belters, pastry chefs, furniture restorers, Miami Cubans, rednecks, art forgerers, double-standard bearers, haters, out-of-staters, masturbators, see you laters, Christian Democrats and people from Alabama.
Democratic base – Marxists, Leninists, Marxist-Leninists, Trotskyists, Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, leftists, centrists, left of centrists, Jews, Muslims, Blacks, Blue-collar Whites, White-collar blues fans, Collarless shirt makers, Cuban Cubans, taxidermists, Canadians, parachutists, glassblowers, Portuguese hairdressers, jazz musicians, boys with girl’s names, girls with boy’s haircuts, tunafish boycotters, soccer moms and security guards.
November 17th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Jake – LOL
November 17th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I’m certainly not a Republican, but many say the party needs to get back to what it use to represent – like Ford and before him: fiscal responsibility, strong military defense, etc.
Many say (including me) that the Republican Party has allowed the “Evangelicals” to take over – in other words they need to stop running their party from a Southern Baptist pew. The party needs to stay away from the “bedroom issues”.
November 17th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Being black,IKE EISENHOWER was a great man in our home. My parents voted for him. This man had a part in the civil rights movement as well that he doesn,t get alot of credit for. ARONALD has it right. I said it before on this blog,that the GOP {THE EVANGELICALS} are nothing more than dixiecrats that left the party because of the civil rights movement. In the past both parties recived a good split from the black vote. RONALD REAGAN came along bringing southern evangels along,blacks fled THE GOP in droves. I voted for NIXON the 1st time i voted in 72. I voted for FORD in 76 as well. I rebeled towards REAGAN and that whole message. Being from the south,that part of GOP took over and i never voted for the GOP since 1976. I might reconsider if the fiscal part of the party reclaim the party and reach out to someone like me and they better reach real hard. I,ve been wounded real bad by the far right of the GOP.
November 17th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Great post JAKE !!!!
November 17th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Ahnold is right about the history of the Republican party. It has ALWAYS been the party of big government spending on big businesses to give us useless and wasteful “internal improvement” projects. A deep reading of history shows it was the Republican plans to expand the railroads at taxpayer expense which, among other things, led to the Civil War. Lincoln was a railroad lawyer. The GOP has never given up its big goverment dreams. Throughout the Reagan years, they mouthed the rhetoric of “smaller government”, but they never made it smaller. In fact they made it much larger, ripping away most of our civil liberties in the process. Reagan had the first trillion dollar budget in world history. This betrayal of so-called core principles has been a hallmark of Republicanism ever since, from Bush The Lip Reader right up to Bush the Lesser. The GOP has held the reins of power for the last 28 years dominating both the presidency and the House (where spending originates) and STILL the government spending is out of control. Now, due to these stupid and short sighted policies, the country is in a financial free-fall. Ironically, the Dems, who spot every other GOP lie, have either failed to point out, or failed to observe this particular untruth. Perhaps they agree with the expansion of government–only disagreeing on how the loot is spent.
November 17th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Hey Paul,
Hi. It’s true that the Republicans have basically dominated the White House the past 28 years. Holding the White House for 20 of the 28. It is not true that they have dominated the House though. The Dems controlled the House for 40 years before 1994 when the Gingrich led Republicans gained their first control since around 1954. So for the last 54 years The Republicans held the House for only 12 Years.
Soooo, what about all that spending between 1954 and 1994, and 2006 through 2008? I’ll leave out 2008-2010. After all I can’t see into the future.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:19 am
If American Historian Stephen Ambrose is correct, universal health care was also a goal of Richard Nixon. I don’t think Arnold Schwarzenegger is a democrat. He is more of a throwback to classic conservatism of Edmund Burke and John Locke. As such, he and like minded politicians may save the Republican Party.
November 18th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Maybe his wife is starting to knock some sense into him.
November 18th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Jake you crack me up!!!
November 18th, 2008 at 11:10 am
The Dems can have Arnold….he isn’t wanted here in CA.
November 18th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Arnold said on tv that the bedroom life is better now.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Is Alan Colmes a hippie from the 60s? He was born in 1950 so that would make him 19 at Woodstock. Alan, did you take the brown acid? Alan, did you ever serve this liberal country of ours? You would have been prime time for Vietnam under the liberal agenda of LBJ and Lady Bird (she sold C-rats to the government – a handy meal in a pinch in South East Asia). Alan, did you avoid the draft by going to college and maintaining a 2.0 GPA? Alan, you talk the talk although the important question is can you walk the walk? Everyone is a comedian and this explains why there are so many unemployed comedians. Twist up another mother nature and pontificate on the sex, drugs and rock n roll.
Alan Colmes for president fan club…
November 19th, 2008 at 8:09 am