If you needed proof that today's Republican Party is completely detatched from reality, you don't need to go further than this exchange between California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and right-wing windbag Rush Limbaugh:
Schwarzenegger: Let me just say to you something, that I have had many, many -- I would say hundreds of -- hard-working people in California come up to me and say it did improve their life. So, I mean, I think it is wrong to say that it didn't improve people's lives. I think those things do improve people's lives. If you create health care for people, it does improve people's lives. If you go and create accountability in education, it does improve education. So I think I'm a results-oriented person, and I personally believed 100% that we need to raise the minimum wage that the people deserve it. So it was not like selling out or going the other way. It is something that I believe in, but, I stuck to my principles of not doing it to chase the businesses out of the state because I'm very proud of the fact that since I came into office --
Limbaugh: Have you reversed that trend of businesses and people leaving California?
Schwarzenegger: Yes.
Limbaugh: They were leaving that state in droves, and that was one of your campaign promises, or premises, after the Gray Davis recall, that there were way too many businesses fleeing the state.
Schwarzenegger: Rush, I just give you an example. I give you an example.
Limbaugh: High taxation, a number of things, regulation forcing people out.
Schwarzenegger: (Chuckles.) I give you an example that made me, actually, very happy. The other day we were at an event where a drywalling company -- a manufacturing company that produces drywalls -- has moved their operation to California, and it is the biggest one in the world, and they came here because they said, "This is a great business environment."
You can practically hear Limbaugh fighting the urge to yell back, "Don't tell me about results, dammit! You're supposed to stick to the right-wing ideological playbook!" 
Too bad for Rush that this is just another example of reality's well-known liberal bias.
Keep this in mind the next time a conservative blowhard dismisses liberals as "ivory-tower elitists" with no basis in reality...
(And apologies for actually linking to Rush Limbaugh's site, but it's the only place I could find a complete transcript of the exchange -- after all, I wouldn't want to copy Rush's trick of "selectively editing" their words and distorting what they said. Maybe you can get rid of the slime by washing your keyboard three times in scalding hot water...)
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