{"id":1932,"date":"2004-05-05T15:27:06","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/05\/moderate-activists\/"},"modified":"2004-05-05T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T22:27:06","slug":"moderate-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/05\/moderate-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tOne of the keys to the Schwarzenegger Miracle in California was a group of moderate Republican businessmen called The New Majority. Here’s how they’re described by hidebound paleo-con adversaries:<\/a><\/p>\n

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“They’re for principle if possible, but winning at all cost,” said Larry Smith, a Newport Beach businessman who launched a conservative political-action committee to counter the New Majority. “We’re for winning if possible, but principle at all cost.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Smith probably thinks he’s insulted them, but the first axiom of politics is that you have to win before you can govern. While the notion of “moderate activists” sounds oxymoronic, in the long run moderates have to get energized to take back both parties from the extremists if we’re to improve the way this nation is governed, and judging by Arnie’s 65% approval rating in California, we’re going to like the results.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the keys to the Schwarzenegger Miracle in California was a group of moderate Republican businessmen called The New Majority. Here’s how they’re described by hidebound paleo-con adversaries: “They’re for principle if possible, but winning at all cost,” said Larry Smith, a Newport Beach businessman who launched a conservative political-action committee to counter the … Continue reading “Moderate Activists”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-va","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}