From Deseret News archives:
Arnold is battling 'Euro disease' in California
Speaking in his office here, he combines a keen sense of California's role in the nation, and of his role in California, with an actor's sense of an audience.
"In most states," he says happily, "nothing is going on this year." So attention will be given to what is going on here. And "if we win, they will get energy." By "they" he means people and political forces across the country who are eager to emulate his distinctive brand of libertarian conservatism.
His libertarianism extends beyond the theory of political economy he encountered as a young man in the writings of Milton Friedman, and beyond the exuberant entrepreneurialism of his life, to social issues. He favors abortion rights, does not care if any state's voters endorse gay marriage and has "no use" for a constitutional amendment barring that. Hence some Republicans consider him useful but not a proper communicant in the church of true conservatism.
However, his conservatism, more than theirs, is the point of the spear in conservatism's primary political challenge defeating liberalism's attempt to Europeanize America.
Today's Democratic Party is defined by its deepening devotion to government distribution of income to its clients to the education-social services complex. This explains what the county map of the 2004 presidential vote reveals: There are very few mostly blue states. Democrats increasingly depend on city and university-town concentrations of voters who work in that complex.
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