Schwarzenegger calls for 'rebranding' GOP »
Posted By MyWayOnNow 4 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsCalifornia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger created shock and awe in the Republican Party when he warned years ago that the GOP was in danger of "dying at the box office" by failing to make the sale to a wide swath of voters.
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chuck-the-canuck4 months, 3 weeks ago
I think your thong is too tight, it appears to clouding your judgement.
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Goppy4 months, 3 weeks ago
I do liek Ron Paul.
When I hear him speak, Im really taken back to the day when Republicans stood for Fiscal Responsibility, were against 'Nation Building', Keepin the State outta peoples private lives.
Now ... geesh ... this new-fangled Republican Party ... what can I say ... its EVERTHING we Conservatives useta DESPISE when I was growin up.
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Mdiar4 months, 3 weeks ago
Arnold is right. McCain was elected by Independents as a maverick and a maverick he must remain. I'd like him to dismiss his social conservatism or take the same approach Arnold has regarding socially conservative issues. He also needs to emphasize a belief in the state's right to decide things for itself, like marriage law and environmental laws. Basically go back to old school classical liberalism combined with federalism. The Latino vote will be a big factor this election and they have been trending towards Republican. I'm not writing the GOP off... however, I don't see McCain winning easily even if he does as Arnold suggests. Unless the GOP decides to run to the left and go back to its progressive roots, they will have to try to play off as Libertarians.
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aniokly4 months, 3 weeks ago
If I have a choice of voting for a real Democrat, or a republican-Democrat I will take the real one every time. However Sen McCain is enough of a Real Republican, and Obama is such an inexperienced, naive candidate I will vote for McCain. I could never vote for Arnold. He is all Democrat by marriage.
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raats66624 months, 3 weeks ago
If I have a choice of voting for a real Democrat, or a republican-Democrat I will take the real one every time.
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OH P L E A S E!
If I've learned ANYTHING from the Bullsh!t that you've posted you wouldn't vote for a Democrat is Jesus Christ was running on the Democratic ticket.
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Shadowolf4 months, 3 weeks ago
Ahnold is a REPUBLICAN, not a NeoConArtist...he has wide crossover support because he refuses to be restricted on the issues he will consider...also, he don't seem to be allergic to admitting when he is wrong...
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Goppy4 months, 3 weeks ago
Now Josey... just cause his administration is a failure ... we Conservatives caint simply DENY that hes a Republican!! I mean, dont we stand for Responsibility?
HECK!
If we Conservatives DENIED ownership of every Republican who made a Fiscal Mess of things ... We Wouldnt Have Any Republicans Around!
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Here, check out what crazy deficit spenders our Right Wing Presdients have been lo these last 40 years!
http://www.uuforum.org/deficit.htm
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cowboygrandpa4 months, 3 weeks ago
Shadow:
I live out here and Arnold doesn't have a clue. He is a good actor though. Remind you of someone else. LMAO.
He has the economy so fouled up. He is talking about cutting medical benefits to the most needy the poor.
He was talking about making a huge cut to the funding of public education, as well as letting prisoners out of prison early. Because we can't afford to house them.
Of course the loopholes for tax benefits for the wealthy still exist. That way they can still buy there boats.
Admitting he is wrong? hahaahahaaa. I watched n interview with him about the response to the wild fires. When a female reporter asked him about the response time he became visibly upset and agressive.
Like so many other lies the Republicans want out there this one is too make one think they have some answers. Don't fall for it. They are aiming at 2012.
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aniokly4 months, 3 weeks ago
Everyone is already assuming Sen Obama is the Democrat nominee, and Hillary is going to beat him by 28 points in Kentucky. Three different Democrat stratigists on three stations said it looks like the Delegate count going into June will make it imperitive that Obama put Hillary on the ticket. That would be nuts. Bill Clinton has such an overpowering personality he would make Obama look like a child. He needs to name someone like Richards, or Biden that would help strengthen the ticket.
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aniokly4 months, 3 weeks ago
Come on. Obama was chosen by the powers that be in the Democrat party months ago. They knew they could use the superdelegates to guarantee his place on the throne. I meant he cannot win in November, and he can't. He is losing Reagan Democrats, white blue collar workers, men, unless he takes Hillary as his VP he will lose woman. Like Begala said last week he can't win with Eggheads, and Africans. Biden, and Richardson are avrage politicians. Bill is a rock star in comparison to Obama.
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Wolfie20074 months, 3 weeks ago
So I guess since Arnold has told us what we need to do the conservative wing of the republican party is just going to meekly tiptoe up to the polls and vote for McLame? I don't think it will be that easy especially with McLame embracing stupid liberal drivel like glow bull warming. So when is McLame going to come and dance with the right wing? He'd better not wait too long or their dance cards might already be filled.
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stephen-johnson4 months, 3 weeks ago
FTA:
"California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner - the only Republican besides Schwarzenegger elected to statewide office - said his party's image has been battered because GOP officials have forgotten the party's core principles: lower taxes, less government.
"Spending has skyrocketed. ... There's been this real crisis in earmarks, which are not justified, and there's been corruption because of ethics violations," he said. "Republican Party leaders have done a terrible job and let the country down.""
It seems to me to be problem that can be remedied by practicing what Republicans historically have preached, not by "rebranding."
The principles haven't failed, those who were elected to implement them have.
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raats66624 months, 3 weeks ago
Although I agree with Gov. Schwarzenegger that the Republican 'brand' has been ruined and the only hope the GOP has is to move toward the center I DON'T see that being an option for this election.
IF, as Davis (R-VA) suggests, the Republican distance themselves from Bush because he is 'radioactive' many voters (IMO) will see it as the rats leaving a sinking ship and just doing so to try and get elected.
What the GOP needs to do is reinvent itself THROUGH ACTIONS. I see too much 'flip flopping' and 'too close' to Bush for McCain to win the Presidency and I think some of the major Bush supporters in the last 7 years are going to loose (or not run) for reelection. Those that DO return to Washington In January 2009 have got to start ACTING like the party has changed. IF THAT HAPPENS, the GOP has a CHANCE to regain some of the lost ground that it has suffered since the 2006 election.
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mntnman4444 months, 3 weeks ago
You would think that republicans in congress talking about losing 20-30 seats in Nov that the ditto heads who continue to push the current brand would start pulling the product off the shelves before they go bankrupt...from the looks of the stories posted on Propeller it looks like they are having a hearing problem.I assume the new brand the republicans are talking about includes telling America what is good about their candidate instead of smearing the other guy.
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mntnman4444 months, 3 weeks ago
It's encouraging to see some republicans willing to say out loud that there is a problem.
Assuming they wanted to change,the first step would be to recognize what the problem with the current brand is in order to change it.
Unfortunately for them,they have not learned from the last election what the problem is.When we see them get rid of the politics of smear,fear and corruption maybe it will be a start but as long as their followers continue to try to pollute the airwaves with false smear stories and comments the song remains the same and November will be another lesson.
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miklkit4 months, 3 weeks ago
It explains why, in the wake of losing a solid Republican seat in Mississippi in a special election last week, Republican leader Rep. John Boehner of Ohio sent out a memo outlining what he called a "new positive agenda" for the GOP - titled "The Change America Deserves."
The change America deserves is for the republicon party to be destroyed. Listening to McLame flip flopping yet again isn't going to change anyone's minds.
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doppich4 months, 3 weeks ago
Odd article. Arnold makes some very good suggestions about repositioning the Republicans more to the center, but others quoted seem to be saying all they need is "Bush without earmarks."
It does seem that some Democrats (Brazile, e.g.) are trying to push the Clinton wing out of the Democratic Party just as, decades ago, the Republicans kicked out the Rockefeller wing.
Maybe we're in for some sort of realignment of the parties in the coming years. I'd probably welcome that.
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