Schwarzenegger: GOP, take down that small tent

California's Republican Party used to worked toward solutions. Now it's an exclusive club where members' ideological cards must be checked at the door.

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 ... Full Story »

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