You would have a point of compromise if you could point to to an example of where people like Bernie Sanders or Maxine Waters ever compromised on any of their political stances.

I find it odd that you only expect Republicans to compromise. I doubt if I could find one editorial from 2001 to 2006 where anyone on the left ever argued that the left should compromise with the Bush Administratrion. Nancy Pelosi when she was minority leader managed to hold an almost perfect party discipline. Why shouldn’t the Republicans expect the same from their side of the aisle.

as the Donald said on CNN: its about making deals.

Rush is an idiot.

You have to wait to see if Limbaugh gets a life-support shot, should Hillary Clinton be elected President and then lurch much farther to the left, as is predicted.

There is no big battle for the GOP’s soul between RINOs and more traditional conservatives. There is somewhat of a battle of this nature for the Presidency, where the GOP is trying to reclaim voters it lost and even hope to steal Democrats if the Democratic Party is still seen as weak on terrorism and against our adversaries. (Judging by the 2006 results, I doubt the GOP will achieve many “conversions” the way it did in 2002 and 2004. I’ve already prepared to see and hear “President Clinton” in the years to come.)

Arnold is a failure because he tried to do something about the long term financial status of California and failed misearably. He was used by the state employees unions and the other special interests groups. So, instead of trying a different approach to controlling the state budget, he has decide to increase entitlements while passing laws that will slow the economy in California. Of course, he made sure that the headline grabbing initiatives will only take affect after he lives office.

Arnold is basically the buttboy of the state employee unions and the ethnic based special interest that run California.

In a diverse society, there is no other reasonble option. We’ve already had our civil war. Now we have to live together.

Anyone who has shared living quarters with others will recognize that
co-habitation means a choide between compromise and separation.

Arnold will probably go down very much like Jesse as a complete failure as a leader and as a politician.

Of course, it is all Arnold can go in a single party state like California.

I think the issue has to be more of dialog vs. ideologue. You can have MUCH more solidly conservative values than Arnold and still be willing to dialog. You can be entirely pro-life, but willing to concede the day-after pill in exchange for a ban on partial birth abortions. I believe that the ability to give and take is what’s at stake here. Now, what IS true is that people with centrist views are more likely to be willing to dialog, since there are fewer “sacred cows” to deal with.