Schwarzenegger: "Republicans Should Move Leftward"

USA TODAY is reporting that Gov. Schwarzenegger wants the republicans to lean more to the left:

BERLIN (AP) — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested in a German newspaper interview published Saturday that the Republican Party should move "a little to the left," a shift that he said would allow it to pick up new voters

The republicans have been moving to the left for more than a generation. Today's republicans are essentially the democrats of John F. Kennedy's era. President Reagan may have been the most conservative president of our time, but only by comparison to the democrats who took a hard left turn during Lyndon Johnson's presidency. Many republicans, like Reagan himself, were at one time democrats but became republicans when they realized that the dems left them behind.

As the dems moved further to the left, as they continue to do, the republicans moved to the left as well, whether intentionally or otherwise. If the republicans were truly conservative, we wouldn't continue to see unabridged growth in gov't programs, departments, agencies, policies, regulations and taxation.

The republicans are already too far to the left. President Bush's tax cuts are a good start and give the hopeful appearance to a much needed conservative trend, but the ever burgeoning growth of gov't needs to stop.