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The Left Leaning Arnold
By Gary DeMar

“I would like the Republican Party to cross this line, move a little further left and place more weight on the center.”

– Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger believes that Republicans can add to their growing majority by moving the party to the left. Here’s what he said in a recent German newspaper interview: “I would like the Republican Party to cross this line, move a little further left and place more weight on the center. This would immediately give the party 5 percent more votes without it losing anything elsewhere.” What he means by “further left” is to abandon the pro-life and anti-homosexual planks in the party’s platform. If this happens, the GOP will lose far more votes than it gains. Consider what happened to pro-homosexual ballot initiatives. A majority of voters, Democrats and Republicans, voted against them.

Lots of people do not vote because there is little difference between the two parties. I believe most of these people are conservative in their political views. The African-American vote generally goes to the Democrats even though African-Americans are more conservative on moral issues than their party. They believe government programs actually work. History is against them. A growing number of African-Americans are beginning to understand this. We’re beginning to see a discernable shift among these traditionally Democrat voters because of social issues like abortion and homosexuality. Hispanics are trending toward the GOP because of social issues. If the GOP shifts left, then there really won’t be a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties. Christian conservatives will leave the GOP in droves. It’s not that they’ll vote Democrat, they just won’t vote. It will be at this time that a third-party candidate might be viable.

Some are pointing to Arnold’s political win in California as a political trend-setter. As the Red-Blue election map shows, California is not the political model for the GOP. Schwarzenegger is 90% liberal and 10% conservative. There’s not much philosophical difference between John Kerry and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Kerry married for money, while Arnold married for prestige and position. In order to realize the American dream, and be accepted in American society, Arnold knew that he had to marry into America’s royal family. That meant marrying a Kennedy.

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