Please Welcome The New California Governor [R]

People like Bill O'Reilly think anybody who doesn't agree with everything they have to say is liberal.

 

Me?? Pathetic?

What does it say about the Democratic Party in California that they can LOSE -- and lose pretty big I might add -- to this guy?

"Pathetic" doesn't even being to describe THEM!!

 

What I'm really saying is backed up with logic and facts, unlike your overheated vacuity.

Logic: People who travel to different countries are exposed to different cultures, languages and the facts of geography.

Fact: Americans are among the world's least traveled people and worst-educated on geography.

Here's a survey from National Geographic, whose findings by your logic must be f-cking insane!:

http://geosurvey.nationalgeographic.com/geosurvey/highlights.html

The main findings:

-- Americans ages 18 to 24 came in next to last among nine countries in the National Geographic-Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey, which quizzed more than 3,000 young adults in Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States. Top scorers were young adults in Sweden, Germany, and Italy.

-- Among young Americans’ startling knowledge gaps, the study found that

• nearly 30 percent of those surveyed could not find the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest body of water;
• more than half—56 percent—were unable to locate India, home to 17 percent of people on Earth; and
• only 19 percent could name four countries that officially acknowledge having nuclear weapons.
Several perhaps interrelated factors affected performance—educational experience (including taking a geography course), international travel and language skills, a varied diet of news sources.

 

Your being pathetic wasn't my main point. But I guess you changed that.

You can try to change it back if you have the guts to take on my main charge, tho that was already admirably supported earlier in this thread by a conservative with integrity.

 

It says that their "New Democrat" shift has left them with no real constituency; that they are only significant as an alternative to the Republicans when they've botched up, but cannot sustain a position or campaign on their own, because all they have become is "Republican lite..."

The national contest will reflect this exact thing unless and until the Democrats make meaningful concessions to the "left," and thus, allow Nader's ilk to endorse them with a good conscience...otherwise, its Dubya Dubya Two, and Ah-nuld handing over the nine billion due the average Californian back to the energy companies, as he'll be directed to do by Karl Rove, I mean by the Antichrist...

 

I think the more disturbing aspect of this Recall Election was it showed how badly the majority of Californians who voted thought of the mainstream political establishment. To elect an actor with no civic or politcal experience to be Govenor speaks volumes about how unhappy they are. And on top of that, it was a pretty large turnout.

 

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Oh, biting slander! To paraphrase Howard Dean, nobody on here deserves to be compared to Karl Keller.

Seriously, my political views are actually pretty close to Arnold's, if I understand his position right. Who knows, however, as this election had almost nothing to do with platform. I'm really quite socially liberal and fiscally conservative (meaning - no debt, balanced budget, no pork, all good things).

 

We're right behind those Bhutanese international jetsetters aren't we

 

LOL. I should have said "developed world's" -- tho that study also included Mexico....

 

Lighten up Francis.

 

Yes. It is. Go ahead and think less of me. I don't remember the Groping Gauleiter asking what I thought on the subject.

 

And any of you *#*#*#*#*# out there try to touch me, I'll kill ya

And anyone calls me Francis, I'll kill ya

 

Your logic is incredibly idiotic, even by Bigsoccer standards. We stink at geography for the same reason we stink at mathematics, science and a whole host of other subjects.

Americans travel more than just about any people. We just happen to be a MASSIVELY HUGE country. Americans who live near Canada and Mexico, and visit, are hardly more knowledgeable about geography than other Americans.

 

I think that we owe a big round of applause to our newest bestest buddy and big toe Sergeant Hulka.

 

interesting, they censor out the word "homo"

it's not a disparaging epithet like "faggot"

now if Loney could kindly translate 'gauleiter' for us....

 

Do. If he decides to close tax loopholes and shelters instead of kindergartens, and changes his stance on homosexuals and abortion, and I demonize him because he's a Republican, throw it right back at me. And then put me out of my misery, as I'd have become a Democrat.

 

On an unrelated note, those two of you who claim to be socially liberal, but more interested in fiscal policies that help small businesses should wander on over to the John Edwards for President website, check out his policies, especially his economic policies, and make a donation.

 

It isn't?

 

Not if you buy ho[\i]mo milk

lighten up, Francis

 

For a little perspective - lest we forget; this man is not the Great White Hope of California politics. He's Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

It's homogenized, Einstein.