“I asked what party Nixon was from. Artie said he was an imbecile Republican. ‘Then I will be an imbecile Republican,’ I said.”
– Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, on how a speech from Richard Nixon on small government, low taxes and a strong military inspired him to join the GOP. Schwarzenegger went on to lament in a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed about the loss of “big tent” Republicanism.
