The GOP is losing its grip on the core business vote:
In an interview, Mr. Greenspan noted: “I was brought up in the Republican Party of [Barry] Goldwater. He was for fiscal restraint and for deregulation, for open markets, for trade. Social issues were not a critical factor.” Today’s Republican party, he added, has “fundamentally been focusing on how to maintain political power, and my question is, for what purpose?”California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has lost some Republican Party support because of his socially liberal stands and his proposals on global warming and universal health care. But those stands have made him more popular generally in the state, while his party is less so. Last month, at the state Republicans’ convention, he sounded an alarm. Noting that California Republicans have lost 370,000 registered voters since 2005, the former actor said, “We are dying at the box office.” The voters that Republicans need, Mr. Schwarzenegger argued, “often hold conservative views on fiscal policy and law-and-order issues, while taking more liberal stands on social and environmental issues.”
I don’t expect to see Greenspan in an “Exhume Goldwater” t-shirt anytime soon.