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I agree that the democratic party needs to turn more to the center and take the party back from the left-wing whackos!!
BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested in a German newspaper interview published Saturday that the Republican Party should move "a little to the left," a shift that he said would allow it to pick up new voters.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, has taken an unorthodox approach since winning office last year -- standing by a promise to toe a conservative line on fiscal matters while veering leftward on social issues such as gay rights and the environment.
In an interview with Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily, Schwarzenegger said that "the Republican Party currently covers only the spectrum from the right wing to the middle, and the Democratic Party covers the spectrum from the left to the middle."
"I would like the Republican Party to cross this line, move a little further left and place more weight on the center," he was quoted as saying. "This would immediately give the party 5 percent more votes without its losing anything elsewhere."
Schwarzenegger was guarded on suggestions that he harbors presidential ambitions, saying only that a debate on whether the cons ution should be amended to allow foreign-born citizens to run was "overdue."
Schwarzenegger became an American citizen in 1983, 15 years after he emigrated from Austria. He has said he'd consider running for president if such an amendment passed but has also taken pains to say it shouldn't be created specifically for him.
"I would like people to remember me as someone who raised standards, wherever I got involved." he was quoted as saying.
"I brought bodybuilding from nothing, I made the action film a genre, and the same goes for politics -- I want to do things that no one believed possible. I would like to bring people together as governor."
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I think the Governator is on to something here. Just like I think the Democratic party needs to go a little to the right. We believe in God and many of have some conservative views as well.
I agree that the democratic party needs to turn more to the center and take the party back from the left-wing whackos!!
Unfortunately, with the exception of a few (Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman), that's all that's left in the Demoncratic Party...left-wing whackos.
You are incorrect sir!!
Is all that is left of the republican party neo-con conservatives (and libertarian wannabe republicans) and right-wing whackos?
I think not.
No, I'm not.
Well, I don't hear anyone claiming that, so...your point?Is all that is left of the republican party neo-con conservatives (and libertarian wannabe republicans) and right-wing whackos?
Arnold, I'm sure your intentions are good, but if you think that the religious reich is going to sit still for this, then all of that iron pumping must have deprived you of oxygen or something. Moving to the middle costs you the far right, which is considerable."I would like the Republican Party to cross this line, move a little further left and place more weight on the center," he was quoted as saying. "This would immediately give the party 5 percent more votes without its losing anything elsewhere."
I agree ex - because the shift Arnold is talking about involves "social issues" such as abortion and gay rights. If the Republicans move more to the left on social issues, they will lose the religious right vote - and, considering the impact that group had on the last election, I wouldn't think that would be a good idea!
If you will read more closely , he said "a little to the left", not "U-turn".
That's as much of an idiotic blanket statement as yours, so why not.
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