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Is Schwarzenegger A Fool or a Traitor to Tea Parties and Limited Government/Fiscally Conservative Causes?
By Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and FOX News regular guest
This coming Tuesday June 8th, California voters will be voting on Proposition 14, aka “Top Two.” It is a disaster for anyone interested in free speech, choice and dissent. As often happens in politics, Prop 14 is the exact opposite of what it appears to be. The proponents of Prop 14 claim it will eliminate the current party primary system in favor of an “open primary.” So instead of Republicans, Democrats and independents (third parties) each freely choosing their own candidates in a primary, then meeting on the November ballot to determine who will be elected to represent the people, with “Top Two” every candidate runs in a non-partisan free-for-all (aka “open primary”) and only the top two vote-getters appear on the November ballot.
Prop 14 supporters claim this new “Top Two” system would take away power from the 2 big parties because of the non-partisan “open primary” nature of the system. In reality Prop 14 eliminates choice on the ballot in November. Independent candidates and third parties (with less money to spend to reach voters) will literally cease to exist. Independent candidates (Libertarian, Conservative, Tea Party, Green, etc) could not survive the open primary system, thereby guaranteeing only candidates from the 2 major parties on the ballot each November. Do you want your free speech and choice violated or eliminated? If so, you’ll love Prop 14. But is this the American way?
National polls prove that more voters now call themselves “Independent” than at any time in modern political history. More voters call themselves “Independent” than either Republican or Democrat. More voters respect “the Tea Party” than either the Republican or Democrat parties. More voters desire a third party Presidential choice than at any time in modern history. Do all these poll results indicate that now is the time to eliminate choice? To eliminate dissent? You would think that now would be the time to expand choice and dissent. But that’s not what the backers of Prop 14 think. According to the backers of Prop 14, what you want is meaningless.
But the problem with Prop 14 actually goes much deeper. If you want to see smaller government, lower spending, and lower taxes, you’re plum out of luck with Prop 14. This deal was cut in the smoky backrooms of Sacramento to insure that the 2 major parties can operate in the future without dissent, opposition, or pesky “citizen politician” gadflies pointing out their corruption, waste, and fraud. Who is behind it? Prop 14 guarantees that the same corruption and cozy relationship between big unions, big corporations and big government will go on forever- but this time without even the hint of dissent, or the remote chance of an upset. Even “remote” isn’t good enough for these groups…they want zero chance that any independent candidate can ever upset their stranglehold on government and unchecked power over the people.
Want proof? Look no further than the 2 states that have already used Prop 14 political systems- Louisiana and Washington. Third parties have been silenced- they no longer have a reason to exist. Corruption runs wild- Louisiana has been the worst governed state for 35 years and counting. Incumbents literally NEVER lose in these states. If you want to guarantee career politicians can last a lifetime in office screwing the voters and taxpayers, then Prop 14 is for you.
But my final plea is to fiscal conservatives and Tea Party activists in California. You, my friends, are being targeted for extinction by big government proponents. Your Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has sold you down the river. He is either a fool or a traitor. Common sense tells anyone that Republicans will be badly damaged by Prop 14 in a deep blue liberal state like California. The non-biased and scholarly Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles now predicts that Democrats will most certainly gain the most from Prop 14. They predict that up to one third of Congressional and legislative districts in California will be reduced to 2 Democrats in the November elections by “Top Two.” The dissent being silenced forever will be Conservative and Tea Party dissent in a liberal big government state like California. If you are a California Republican, your own Governor Schwarzenegger has signed your death warrant. It isn’t just independents, but rather Republicans, conservatives, and Tea Parties who are the victims of Prop 14. Or did you think big unions, big corporations and big government proponents are friends of fiscal conservatives? This deal stinks to high heaven. Your only choice is to strongly and LOUDLY vote “NO on Prop 14.”
Wayne Allyn Root was the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, and today serves on the Libertarian National Committee. He is the author of the #1 best-selling “Libertarian book” at Amazon for 12 consecutive months. He is a regular guest on FOX News Channel and many other media. His web site is: www.ROOTforAmerica.com.
thx!
bravo Paulie.
End of dissent? Oh please! There are more effective means of dissent than voting.
Same thing. That government governs best which governs least, and there’s no government like no government.
Too bad he didn’t mean it.
I doubt that had much to do with it. A lot of it was trying to impress Nancy Davis’ father, General Electric, etc.
Nonsense. If anything, it kept more people from rising to a higher standard of living – everyone, in the long run.
How so? The entitlement state has continued to grow.
Is this the special needs definition of success?
Yep, it sure is the legacy of corporate-government collusion, corporate personhood, noncontractual limited liability, and the mistaken notion that government is the best way to regulate the marketplace.
Perhaps we have arrived at that moment where the essence of the argument against big government has started to shift in a slightly different direction. Shouldn’t the argument be focused – not on “big government” – but rather on “good government”? Efficiency versus incompetence? We are now a nation of over three-hundred million people. The very idea that the government should be made smaller – or done away with entirely – is beyond idiotic. Rather than wasting our precious time trying to come up with ways of shrinking it, we should all be working overtime trying to improve it.
“Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”
-Ronald Reagan’s first Inaugural Address
January 20, 1981
As the decades ebb away and the judgment of history becomes more dispassionate, this truism will become increasingly apparent:
Ronald Reagan was a fool.
Once upon a time he was a liberal Democrat. As an actor in Hollywood in the thirties, forties and fifties he became fabulously wealthy by starring in a string of perfectly awful films. Back then, the rich were taxed more liberally than they are today. Reagan took a second look at his new fortune and decided he wasn’t that much of a Lefty after all. For the rest of his life he dedicated all of his energy toward destroying the foundation of a new deal for the American people that Franklin Roosevelt put into place in the thirties – a new deal that had made a thriving and healthy middle class possible. Reagan was fairly successful in that destruction.
He also succeeded in deregulating industry and the financial marketplace. That deregulation was put into overdrive by his Republican and Democratic successors. What is now happening in the Gulf of Mexico – which could ultimately threaten the lives of every living creature on this planet – is their legacy. It is their gift to posterity. They can have it back.
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This is the best use of Waynes powers. Load him up with ammo, pull his string, and watch him go.
From a political perspective, I would prefer that he just say things more like “this would keep third party candidates, like the Libertarian Party, off the ballot”. (or something like that).
Why? Because he is our fully loaded mouth machine, and I want him spewing for our team.
I want his message to consistently make people say “Libertarian huh? What’s that all about?”
Not thinking “Tea Party”, “Green” etc.
*****Is Schwarzenegger A Fool or a Traitor to Tea Parties and Limited Government*****
Mr. Root, Republicans are a Right-Wing Socialist Party in the pattern of Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco. They will allow a modest amount of private enterprise as long as Big Brother centralized government keeps control.
Remember that it was the Republican Party that made MARXISM the law of the land with the progressive income tax. From each according to their ability, to each according to his need. They stand by that MARXIST tax to this day and go out of their way to defend and expand all centralized spending programs.