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Hasta la vista, cry-babies All these dreadful things I never knew about Arnold Schwarzenneger.
First off, he’s a ‘sex beast’:
The actor, who hopes to be voted in as Governor of California in next week’s election, apologised after six women accused him of sexual harassment between 1975 and 2000, in an article in Thursday’s Los Angeles Times.
And allegedly he’s also a ‘closet Nazi’:
Women’s groups and religious leaders worked feverishly Friday to galvanize opposition to Arnold Schwarzenegger after he acknowledged treating women badly and responded to reports that he told an interviewer he admired Adolf Hitler.
I never gave Ah-nuld much chance of winning this election. Unlike California Democrats who are clearly convinced that they cannot beat him.
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I’m not in California, so don’t really know. But, I’ve heard lots of chatter on the radio that Davis is NOT very popular with the Dems., neither is the current Lt. Governor. It’s the current Lt. Governor that Arnold is running against.
Also, the California voters are upset about this last minute mud-slinging by the Dems..
I don’t think it’s a sure thing, but I do think Arnold will win. Maybe not by very much, but enough.
The question is, will he be able to govern?
Unless he uses the bully pulpit to tell the Californians to toss their legislature overboard, it’s going to be very, very difficult.
There’s some nasty legislation on Davis’ desk that he will most probably sign and I wouldn’t put it past the legislature to do some nasty things.
Arnold is going to win, trust me. After the Third Circuit’s infamous meddling, this latest smear has propelled him upward in the polls–but then, he was already ahead. (SEE http://www.realclearpolitics.com)
Californians don’t buy the Nazi charges; and they don’t mind that he is a liberty-minded sex beast. (There is a very flattering nude of the young Arnold floating around the net).
When he wins this week he will certainly be my favorite governor. I’m a bit jealous …
“There’s some nasty legislation on Davis’ desk that he will most probably sign and I wouldn’t put it past the legislature to do some nasty things.”
He’ll be in the same position as the governor of my state, Massachusetts. Our state is in fiscal trouble so last election we chose a guy who is fiscally conservative, proven business record, and an outsider to the incestuous politics in this state.
Governor is a Republican and legislature is 90+% Democrat. (You could fit all the Republican state legislatures in a minivan.) Governor has done ok, but he has some terrific ideas for getting us out of our fiscal mess that can’t pass the legislature.
The Democratically controlled legislature has done some nasty stuff. Fortunately, the governor is a veteran of all kinds of business politics so he has done ok. But, I’d hate to see someone go up against our legislature who didn’t have a LOT of experience behind them. They’d get eaten alive.
I’m wondering how Arnold will do. I know he has some business experience, but I don’t think he has that much. You know if he wins the press and all the Dems. will be lobbing bombs at him.
Chris Josephson: “I know he has some business experience, but I don’t think he has that much.”
Arnold was a self-made millionaire twice over before he ever went into movies 20 or so years ago. He started two businesses – one when he was only 18 and still living in Germany, the second in California – and built them up to be lucrative and successful.
Mark Steyn (today’s Telegraph) and I think he will win.
I think it’s hilarious that Clinton being seen backing the Democratic candidate will back fire into support for Arnie. If nothing else, Clinton is seen as a veritable poster child for being victimized by the anti-sex squad. That reminder has to push some democratic voters towards Arnold.
Glenn Reynolds links to a BBC Story in which an Austrian Jewish gent reports on Arnie and body builder friends chasing neo-Nazi’s down a street. Doesn’t sound like he had much time for them even as a young european.
Can the CA Dems get any more pathetic? (Yes I know they can…) What are they going to excuse him of next?
This all seems to have been a positive for Arnold and a big negative for the LA time, the NY Times and Greyout. I haven’t heard if Bustamonte is taking a hit by association – he did kind of jump on the bandwagon for a moment: a stupid thing when it was understood this was Davis and the crapstorm backlash had already begun.
We used to live in California & most of my husband’s family are there. From what we’re hearing, Arnold will probably win this election.
If he does, then I agree that the real issue will be the state legislature. This state has a long history of divisive politics and massive pandering to special interest groups. Plus, it’s just BIG and it’s very diverse geographically, economically, ethnically and ideologically. A challenge to govern in better times, a major challenge in its current condition.
Perhaps Arnie will go down in flames (or in mud before the election), but if not, there may be a real sea-change developing among Californian voters. They have a history of getting fed up and voting propositions that push the legislature on policy — c.f. Prop 13’s attack on rising house taxes. If they decide that political correctness and interest group politics have gone too far, the next statewide election for legislators might bring in major change. Probably not, but not out of the question either.
Interesting times …..
So, Arnold is charged with groping babes on movie lots?
I thought people were paid to grope on movie lots, while the 35-(or 70)mm rolled.
John:
One of those paid gropers is running for Governor. 🙂
Arnold did not grope those women. He accidentally bumped into their breasts with his hands. Only a Gray Davis-paid character assassin could not tell the difference.
Will he win? I didn’t think so originally, with two Republicans splitting their vote and only one Democrat. But the Democrat, Bustamante, is kind of a dope, and polls are probably understating Schwarzenegger’s support in the same way they did Jesse Ventura’s in the 1998 Minnesota governor’s race. There are a lot of people out there who get excited about voting for a celebrity. The groping thing, incidentally, may have hurt him more if it had come out earlier and if it hadn’t come out at the same time as the Nazi allegations, which from what I understand are pretty bogus.
Come on!!!! So he groped on some women, big deal! I bet that little midget has done worse things and no ones saying anything about him. Im not from California, but i dont think having Arnold as a governer is that bad, you guys had Clinton as a president! All those people that protest against Arnold are just a bunch of bored jobless idiots who cant find anything better to do. Ah-nuld`s the man, i mean he makes California sound like some planet in another galaxy (Cah-lee-foh-nee-ah), anybody who can do that deserves all our respect, HE WILL WIN!!!
Be a nice change to have a position of ‘high office’, filled by a non-politician.
Why these positions of ‘high office’ are always presumed to be the exclusive territory of ‘professional politicians’, is really quite puzzling.. – they – the professionals- have brainwashed the rest of us into believing that they are the only ones capable of doing a good job.
Actually they are the worst qualified (as proven by their collective record), for the positions of trust that they aspire to, and the qualifications needed to become, ‘The Governor’, are really the total opposite of those required to be a good politician.
Some of the qualities for high office should include; ‘A love of truth and honesty’.
‘A strong sense of Justice, in it’s most literal sense’. A strong desire to serve The Community, which elected them, and last, but not least, to be impartial and non-partisan. After all, we vote for the person, not the Party.
These are just a few of the qualities required, and show that I am wearing the rose tinted ‘specs’ tonight…
Professionals will all attest to their passionate regard for such high ideals, – and anything else you want to hear, but in fact, very few ever achieve even a minimum of success in the field of honesty and integrity.
What we want are people who have a desire to serve the whole community, rather than just themselves and their cronies. Professional politicians just will not do! To them it is just another days work. To the non-professional leader, it may be a bit of an ego trip, but it is incumbent on them to try their best to make a success of their appointment, and more so than for the professional politician, who can slide back into obscurity following a disastrous performance.
We want people who we can praise for a good job, well done, and not for those people who are content to be praised for effort or good-intention, but who fall short of the mark and perform badly.
Don’t know if others have seen this, but it bears reporting.
Evidently, Schwarzenegger was Dowded on the Hitler quote. Reports are that he admired Hitler’s public speaking abilities, but [not] what he did with them. Of course, you can imagine which word was edited out.
More here.
I have a question for Californians – has Arnold, in any of his appearances, actually given any clear ideas of whether he will:
1, cut taxes
2, shrink the state
3, cut regulations on business,
4, defend the Second Amendment
On all the above, Tom McClintock is miles better than Arnie. Sadly, McC also has a socially conservative line on issues like abortion, so I understand. But in purely libertarian terms, it seems that McC is miles better than the Terminator.
Fingers crossed. Let’s hope Arnie pleasantly surprises us all.
Arnold has said he’d do his damnedest at the first 3 on that list. With the added bonus of being electable!