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Zonie63 -> RE: Former California Governor Comments On What The GOPs Real Issues Are At Present (5/8/2012 1:56:26 AM)
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The former California governor said that the man who held that office 30 years before him – before becoming president - is becoming more a distant memory than a model to some Republicans on the “extreme right.” They are playing the role of “ideological enforcers” rather than seeking inclusion and solutions, wrote Schwarzenegger, himself a Republican.
As I recall, those "ideological enforcers" were far more strident and arrogant back in the Reagan era, so I'm not sure what Schwarzenegger is talking about. We used to call them "Ronnie Robots." They were far worse back then, but now, they seem a bit more subdued than they used to be. Decades of ideologically-based deregulation, outsourcing, globalism, and mindless greed have gutted the American economy. All of what we're experiencing now (economically) was predicted back during the Reagan era, but nobody wanted to listen. Yes, there was some economic boom during Reagan's tenure in office, but a few of us knew that it was just a temporary thing and that sooner or later, the day of reckoning would come.
The Republicans are merely relying on the same tactics which worked so well during the 1980s, and I recall Schwarzenegger was one of their cheerleaders back then, too. So, he's hardly one to talk about "ideological enforcers," since he was one of them. I remember when he proclaimed "Michael Dukakis is the real Terminator" to the resounding cheers of mindless devotees.
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