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Terminating the recall revolt.(Insider Report)
Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory in the California recall election came about because of a revolt by that state's long-suffering middle class. Wrung dry by taxes, choking on business-killing regulations, inundated by cultural pollution, and overrun by illegal immigrants, California's productive, law-abiding population finally had enough.
Unfortunately, as William F. Jasper predicted in these pages (see "Recall Revolution" in our October 6 issue), the Republican establishment used Schwarzenegger's candidacy to hijack the revolt. Rather than advancing the cause of limited government and personal responsibility, Schwarzenegger's victory heralds the final repudiation by the GOP of its social conservative base.
George F. Will perfectly cast Schwarzenegger as "a man who is, politically, Hollywood's culture leavened by a few paragraphs of Milton Friedman." For the GOP branch of the Establishment, this is a winning formula, in that it can hold genuine conservatives at bay.
"How he won tells me that his message--he's both fiscally conservative and socially inclusive and moderate--was one that appeals to the middle," former liberal Republican New Jersey Governor (and EPA head) Christine Todd Whitman told the New York Times.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Terminating the recall revolt.(Insider Report)