Posted by Matthew J. Cunningham at 12:00 am on Sep 04, 2006 Comments Off on Schwarzenegger Is Pushing This Republican Into The Undecided Column
I don’t recall even being in a situation where the closer
Election Day gets, the less likely I am to vote for the GOP
nominee.
Yet, that is where I find myself vis-a-vis Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
I’m one of many conservatives who voted for Arnold in the
recall, despite my preference for Tom McClintock. I found the
prospect of Cruz Bustamante in the governor’s office horrifying and
wasn’t convinced McClintock could win. The stakes so too high I
though it prudent to back the Republican with the best chance of
winning, and so I cast my vote for Arnold. Like other
conservatives, I comforted myself with the rumor we’d heard for
years that Arnold was really a libertarian. So, although he was
squishy on the social issues, at least he’d be hard core on taxes,
spending and freedom issues. After all, he was a Milton Friedman
fan!
But ever since the Governor’s nauseating policy of apologizing
for the special election of 2005, it’s been steadily more difficult
to assembly a conservative Republican rationale for supporting his
re-election.
He’s signed a non-aggression pact with the government
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