It's Arnold by a landslide next Tuesday
On the eve of a statewide bus tour and with polls showing the Recall vote a razor-thin 14 percentage points ahead, Arnold Schwarzenegger, veteran of the movie set where rowdy conduct and sexual indiscretion are completely unheard of, faced fresh charges of rowdy conduct and sexual indiscretion on the movie set from 6 women almost all of whom bravely spoke on condition of anonymity, according to a report in Thursday's Los Angeles Times.
Hollywood and the media, which defended grope-from-Hope Bill Clinton against charges that he groped Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones and Dolly Kyle Browning and Elizabeth Ward Gracen and Christine Zercher and Connie Hamzy and practically every Arkansas state employee who wore make-up and a dress, seemed genuinely shocked and horrified at the charges leveled against the Republican actor and Gubernatorial frontrunner, calling them very, very, very serious. Even Michael Jackson, who prides himself for picking on people his own size, like that 13-year-old boy he molested, seemed genuinely aghast at Arnold's crude behavior, involving misconduct 6 times over a very short span of 3 decades. No word yet on whether Democrats plan to call for an outside counsel probe, headed by Woody Allen, to examine the charges. Democrats', who hate invasion of privacy, are still too busy examining Newt Gingrich's divorce.
Democrat '04 contender Wesley Clark has yet to take more than 3 firmly-held positions on this. Howard Dean is too busy fashioning an agenda for his First 100 days for when he wins a second White House term in '08. Richard Gephardt is working on his 'I was such a Miserable Failure in Iowa' concession speech. (Problem is, none of the other candidates will want his endorsement when he drops out.) John F. Kerry plans to unload a bombshell of his own -- that he SERVED IN VIETNAM! As for the rest of the '04 field, the recall election has slipped to fifth place among the things they care about, behind Joe Wilson's wife, Joe Wilson, Joe Wilson's wife and Joe Wilson.
Eager to prove there is no liberal bias at the Times, and disabuse critics of silly notions the paper is unfair, the Times published the allegations a massive 5 days before the elections. Some of the charges are pretty recent, says the Times, the improper conduct allegedly occurring as a shell of rock formed around a cooling primordial earth.
The paper, which vociferously opposes the recall, denies political shenanigans and says the timing here is just an innocent coincidence.
The 6 women interviewed by the Times considered Arnold's conduct so serious, they never filed charges, fearing retribution from Hollywood, bastion of right-wing extremism and slavish allegiance to George W. Bush and the Republican Party. And who can blame them? Tinseltown, a place crawling with notorious warmongering right-wing celebrities like Sean Penn and Robert Redford and Tim Robbins and Michael Moore (!) and Martin Sheen (!!) and Barbra Streisand (!!!) and Susan Sarandon (!!!!) and Ed Asner (!!!!!) and George Clooney (!!!!!!) and Danny Glover (!!!!!!!) and Harry Belafonte (!!!!!!!!) etc., diligently works to silence all good, progressive voices amid a climate of fear! Fear created by Richard Pearl/Paul Wolfowitz sychophants like Janeane Garafolo! Don't believe me, eh? Well, just ask Dr. Laura what right-wing Hollywood does to all dissenting voices.
Controversy erupted after Schwarzenegger, frontrunner among a thin field of only 135 candidates to replace Gov. Gray Davis, gave a recent magazine interview 26 years ago, in which he recalled having wild parties and group sex just 26 years ago. Outraged Democrats, paragons of moral probity and personal ethics who hold Bill Clinton up as ideal exemplar, are understandably outraged.
Amid the slew of damaging allegations against Arnold, Democrats point to his father's Nazi membership and combat record, noting this was only a few years before Arnold was born. Couldn't Arnold have chosen a better father? Like Joseph P. Kennedy or Robert Byrd, to list just two shining examples! Democrats wonder.
E. Laine Stockton, one of only two who allowed their names to be used in the interview, claims she was groped by Arnold only 28 years ago, about the time Clinton was telling Juanita Broaddrick to 'put some ice on it.' Democrats, careful to be clear and consistent, call Juanita Broaddrick's charges old news peddled by scandal addicts over things that happened 28 years ago and that don't affect performance in office. Stockton's charges are different because, say Democrats, they occurred only 28 years ago and profoundly affect performance in office. The difficulty in all this for Democrats is that, basically, what they're saying is: Don't vote for Arnold because of unsubstantiated charges he groped women some 15 to 25 years ago but vote for Gray Davis who's groping and touching and fondling you -- the taxpayer -- and wants to grope and touch and fondle you 3 more years. Gray Davis says the car tax hike is not his fault and that he's pretending to be governor while looking for the real tax hikers.
Incidentally, Arnold's remarks at a campaign stop in San Diego, where he said he was deeply sorry to anyone he may have offended, was not a confession to anything in the LA Times article, which he dismissed as trash politics and said it was mostly false allegations. (The most recent charge has been thoroughly discredited.)
NEW CAMPAIGN BOMBSHELL: ARNOLD McNABBED OVER 28-YEAR OLD HITLER REMARK HE NEVER MADE BUT THE FACT THAT IT'S IN THE MEDIA AND THE PUNDITS ARE TALKING ABOUT IT MAKES THE CHARGE VERY, VERY SERIES! DEVELOPING...
Kidding aside, as Davis rides the mudslide, it's Arnold by a landslide next Tuesday.
Anyway, that's...
My two cents..
"JohnHuang2"
