Schwarzenegger pumps up Obama and McCain
I know this won’t shock many of you. California Gov. Arnold Kennedy Schwarzenegger hasn’t formally endorsed anyone yet, but he gave rave reviews of Obama and McCain to the SF Chronicle editorial board today:
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, weighing in on the presidential race, said that both Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama are on the right track in “talking about bringing people together” across partisan lines…
…Schwarzenegger, during a wide-ranging session with the Chronicle editorial board, also declined to formally endorse a GOP presidential candidate. But the California governor didn’t rule it out - and came closest when he said that McCain should be congratulated for working across party lines to get things done, despite being hammered by conservative pundits around the country as being too friendly with Democrats. .
“I think that you should never worry about being hammered,” he said. “If you want to lead, there will always be people against it. I hear this kind of stuff all the time.”
McCain “is smart to continue talking about those issues. It is smart for Obama to continue talking about those issues, crossing the line,” Schwarzenegger said. “You will see worldwide, more and more people are going to look at that as a way of bringing people together. And there’s nowhere more important to do that than in America.”
Schwarzenegger said he will appear with President Bush at an economic event in the Los Angeles area this week. And he will also be present at the live televised GOP debate from the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, where he is expected to escort Nancy Reagan to watch the final meeting of the candidates before the Feb. 5 Super Tuesday primaries.
As we have seen time and again, “bringing people together” is code for increasing the size and scope of government. Note how “bipartisan” legislation and “unifying” programs are always liberal efforts that conservatives compromise on or sell out for–never the other way around.
Witness:
McCain-Feingold.
McCain-Kennedy.
Bush-Kennedy’s No Child Left Behind.
Stimulation-palooza.
Cal Thomas has a related column on the Republican retreat:
The aptly named Republican “retreat” last weekend at the ritzy Greenbrier resort in West Virginia should have included Democrats because Republicans are behaving just like them.
There was President Bush arguing for his “bipartisan stimulus package” and supporting government handouts with borrowed money. Republicans can always cut a bipartisan deal if they behave like Democrats…
…What Republicans need is a dose of Barack Obama, who recently praised Ronald Reagan to the consternation of leading Democrats. Obama correctly noted that “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not, and a way that Bill Clinton did not.” That’s because Reagan had core principles from which he rarely deviated.
Instead of standing in front of those silly signs they use to promote whatever it is they are talking about, Republicans should use backdrops that promote some of Reagan’s greatest sayings. These include:
“Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States”; “Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets”; “Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them”; “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves”; “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
My personal favorite is: “Man is not free unless government is limited.”
That last one should be tattooed on every Republican member of Congress.
And on every GOP presidential candidate, too.
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Arnold,what another outright disaster !
How many more Democrats in Republican clothes can we stand?
Wish I never voted for Arnold Shriver. He’s more of a democrat than a republican and has spent California into a bigger deficit than Gray Davis ever did. This is the same that McPain would do, but to the entire US. And… now that Thompson is out, I’m voting for Romney. Again, my vote comes down to the lesser of two evils.
Arnie’s 14.5 B-b-b-billion health care for all Californians bonanza just got shot in the foot… maybe he’d be better off staying out of the advisory role for awhile… now that he’s got us into debt deeper than Grey Davis had us.
To Michelle’s point, the only “bipartisan” stuff we need involves mutual federal program destruction. If its got three letters, destruct it.
Yup, grab your wallets once again folks.
I live here in CA, and I don’t know of anyone who actually plays attention to RINO Arnold.
I could care less who he endorses. All I know is I am NOT voting for McCan’t.
I want to bring people and ideas together. Together to bring down McCain and Hillary and Obama. Will you join me.
Odd isn’t it?
All these high stylin’ liberals and neo Republicans who have so much money they could care less about what us tax paying, month to month income, debts, etc., have to say.
They live behind gated communities and don’t associate with the likes of us.
Okay. I have to disagree with Cal and Michelle here, slightly.
Tattoes won’t help them with their recall. Now, branding…that might do the trick.
The Top 20 most influential US liberals:
You will notice that Schwarzenegger (R) is #8 (Right below Michael Moore and above many Democratic Congressmen).
Sadly I think McCain will win the GOP nomination. After all, he has gained the nomination from the MSM, as well as each of the Dem’s Big 3 (Billarry, Barrack-O, and Silky).
VOTE ROMNEY!
Schwarzenegger, Obama, and McCain
Need I say more about “birds of a feather”????
I can’t believe I voted for that A (and I don’t mean “A” as in Arnold)
I fear the same that McCain could get the nomination. The Democrats and their allies, the MSM, want McCain to be the GOP nominee. He is the easiest one for them to beat. They know that he is too polarizing for the GOP base to fully support him, which will kill him in the general election. He is banking on independents but I don’t think he can/will garner the support from them that can put him over the top. And, besides, what would the difference between Hillary and McCain, in the long run, besides the “(R)” or the “(D)” after their name? *sigh*
Every conservative should be saying a prayer each night that Romney gets the votes to become the Republican nominee, so conservatism has a somewhat fighting chance this November.
I have been saying this for years now. Ever since Bush Sr. was elected. This country has moved so far to the left it has no clue as to what a conservative or the right is.
I hate to break it to you all once again. However, even though I voted for Reagon twice, he was a moderate. Not this big conservative. He made you feel proud to be an American. This is not a convservative value. Unfortunately it has now become that label. Arnold is a lefty and was before Californians voted him in. Though he at times makes you proud to be American, his policies are socialist.
The last true conservative in the public eye was William F. Buckley. We need more of his caliber now more then ever.
New Obama TV ad featuring Caroline Kennedy, at the Obama website with details on where it is running here, or just the video at YouTube here.
Very powerful IMHO.
The only reason at this point to vote for someone with an (R) after their name is federal and SCOTUS judge appointments. Besides that we gain nothing by voting for any of the RINOs left in the GOP race.
Not surprising. Like McCain and Obama, Arnold is a democrat.
The Arnold is just another RINO (republican in name only). Maybe worse.
That is a heckuva of a big reason, but don’t forget a bigger reason: Our men and women deserve the best Commander-in-Chief we can give them. Their lives depend on our decision.
Its all over. They are forcing mccennedy down our throats and no one will come out and vote for him in November…..
……..Hillary will becom the czar she always wanted to be.
I just don’t get it. What do people see in McCan’t?
This herd mentality in the media is inexplicable.
He’s a flat out liberal. That’s probably it.
Please try to remember this. I didn’t vote for Mccain today, but if it means Hillary (who has no respect for the military) or Obama (who doesn’t have a clue about the military)I’ll do what I can to help Mccain if he gets the nomination.
I used to like Swhwarzenegger. He had some backbone in the early days. Unfortunately, over the years, the “Terminator” became the “Blovinator”.
Lately, he’s a shill for the Kennedys.
There seems to be growing support for selling some of the “M” states, i.e., Mexifornia, Mexizona, Mexas. This would serve a dual purpose of getting shed of a whole passel of illegal aliens, and raising revenue while lowering taxes–of great appeal to conservatives.
EUroSocialism advocates.. peas in a pod.. p-toooey