Schwarzenegger: GOP, take down that small tent

[Zorro]

It was Richard Nixon who brought me into the Republican fold.

He was running for president, and I had recently arrived in California from Austria, which I'd left because the European socialist mentality wasn't big enough for my dreams. Growing up, I was surrounded by kids whose greatest ambition was to one day collect a pension. I didn't intend to spend my whole life dreaming about floating on a government safety net.

One day, when Nixon was talking on the television, my liberal friend Artie translated bits of what he was saying. As I recall, he spoke about free enterprise, about less government and taxation, about the need for a strong military.

I asked what party Nixon was from. Artie said he was an imbecile Republican. "Then I will be an imbecile Republican," I said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-oe-schwarzenegger-gop-needs-to-be-more-inclusiv-20120506,0,178448.story

[SirRevolutionary]

1. ...and one day, he became the imbecile Republican he longed to be.

The End.

[DontTreadOnMe]

2. ROTF.."The End"

Ahnuld.. the pot smokin' womanizer... got rich.... THEN became a Republican.

[wilt the stilt]

3. Arnie, you missed the part

about Nixon destroying the institution of government that started the cynicism that many people hold today and the idiot(Reagan) who has morons thinking that even the USPS is bad. many things government does well now goes unappreciated.

[msongs]

4. "free" enterprise is NOT free - it is as tightly controlled as any socialist or government run enter

prise. the deck is stacked by the corporations

[Namvet67]

5. Doesn't want to take the easy route....except for the Anabolic Steroids that meant easy bodybuilding

Guess he's a liar and a cheater just like nixon AND reagan

[kestrel91316]

6. Well that explains a lot. Though Nixon never fathered a child

out of wedlock with HIS housekeeper........

[otohara]

7. Too Late Arnold, They've Pissed Off

every group outside the wealthy WASPY types.

[davidpdx]

8. That has a political cartoon written all over it

A small tent with Arnold and his wife in it and trying to get out. The caption, "We need a bigger tent". On the side of the tent it says Republican Party