I never could understand the attraction which Republicans, especially conservatives, had for the Austrian Action Hero. Sure, Reagan had come from the movies, but had also spent years studying and speaking on conservatism before moving into the arena of politics. But Schwarzenegger's election always struck me as some kind of pop culture transition from harmless fictional destruction to the real thing.
It wasn't his being an actor that attracted me, and I doubt that was it for most of us. I never really much cared for him as an actor. It was that Graft Davis was so awful and the possibility of having at least a semi-conservative Republican as governor to break the Democrats' monopoly on government here made me willing to overlook his short-comings in the hope we could maybe revive the Republican party in California by electing a Republican governor. Now as it turns out we just ended up with another Democrat as that ass Warren Beatty even brags of after only a couple years of having a Republican governor.