Will Arnold Schwatzenegger get re-elected?

[Kghadial]

Arnold will get Re-elected.  He is a democrat in wolf's clothing.

Californians didn't replace a Democrat with a Republican they replaced a bland Gray Davis with the dynamic liberal terminator.

Arnold winning clinched California for the democrats. There is no Gray Davis twisting in the wind, hurting Kerry out there.

Arnold's greatest worry is survivng the GOP primary, he's much too liberal to win it unless a lot of people give in and vote for the most electable candidate.

Even if he loses the primary he'll just run like Jesse Ventura for a third party. I'm sure Jesse will even campaign with him. NOW that would be a muscular pair.

[Kghadial]

I didn't say Arnold is a liberal in the whole realm of American politics, he is liberal for a Republican

He is pro-choice, pro-civil union (he is against gay marriage, but his stances about SF are mainly to uphold Cali law), supports medical marajuana, suports some reasonable gun laws.

All of these views are NOT espoused by the national republican party.

His tax cutting, spending slashing ideals? Well the tax cutting is the Republican party stance, although his tax cutting plan seems to be far more modest than the one the national party endorses. However, the spending slashing obviously is not espoused by the national Republican party, look at Dubya ...

Arnold a republican? Yes, people are the party they say they are.

Not to mention his support for 'kooky' 'liberal' things like hydrogen highways, protecting the environment, solar energy, and 'reduce dependence from foreign oil' , etc.

If you described Arnold to an Average republican in the Deep South, they probably would say "sounds like some liberal Yankee, except the tax cutting"

If moderate republicans like Arnold were the majority of Republicans , the world would be a better place ...

[Kghadial]

 All Democrats at Berkley think all Republicans are fascists.

But not all Republicans in the Deep South think that all moderate Republicans are liberal yankee Democrats.


Yet unless  California Republicans swallow their conservative pride Arnold could lose the primary, and be forced to become a member of Jesse Ventura's party.

[Kghadial]

We are like Arnold!  We are!

That's untrue.

How many republican office holders/candidates support civil unions, and wouldn't be against gay marriage if the people voted for it?
How many republican office holders/candidates are pro-choice?
How many republican office holders/candidates support medical marajuana?
How many republican office holders/candidates actually will not defer to the NRA on every single gun issue?
How many republicans in Washington are for balancing the budget? they are all pigs at the trough.



Arnold is for civil unions, choice, medical dope, reasonable gun laws, and he talks tough about deficits. He is more liberal than Evan Bayh, (Bayh is a deficit hawk too).

Of Senators only McCain, Chafee, Snowe, Specter, and Hagel (that's off the top of my head) are republicans who are reasonably like Arnold. Practically all the rest are far to the right.

If Arnold was a senator he would be the most liberal republican by quite a bit, and probably to the left of Bayh, Lieberman, Zell Miller (duh), and Breaux

Arnold is a Republican only because he likes them, and that was the only way he could become governor of California.

Arnold is an awful lot like Clinton. However in California i guess he counts as a republican, barely.