Why do you claim that $12 million in campaign contributions can corrupt or buy a man worth hundreds of millions?Why do you claim that $12 million in campaign contributions can corrupt or buy a man worth hundreds of millions?Why do you assume it means nothing to him if he works so hard to get it?
Arnold loves making deals; he loves power (it goes back to how he hated his father but that's another matter in the history of this psychopath). Arnold can't get enough adulation either, which is why his ambitions don't end with the governorship (despite what the Constitution says). $15 million in six months with three years to go is serious political money. That type of money buys the power to play kingmaker which befits his ambitions.
If money meant nothing to Arnold, why did he LOAN his campaign $4.5 million, and then, after getting elected, try to get it repaid by contributors (which is obviously illegal because it converts a loan of his own funds which are not subject to spending limits to contributions that are). He was later FORCED by the courts to repay the loan himself.
Me: Arnold can't get enough adulation either, which is why his ambitions don't end with the governorship (despite what the Constitution says).
And what do you know...
Bruck: He says it is—but he can’t even say it convincingly. No, incredibly enough, it is the culmination of his master plan, set many years ago. Franco Columbu, a former bodybuilder who has been Schwarzenegger’s closest friend since the sixties, says that the Presidency is, indeed, Schwarzenegger’s long-term goal.
Here is the source for that quote, evidence such as you have totally failed to post even once in this discussion. You call me a shrill conspiracy freak because you choose to deny both current facts and Arnold's history, preferring your own wishful thinking to reality. I call him a psycopath based solidly in multiple facts that leads to a reasoned conclusion: the man needs power and adulation so badly he will do ANYTHING to get it (which makes him easy to use). Just watch him some time shaking hands; totally out of control. It's because his dad treated him like crap all through his childhood, your ignorance notwithstanding. Ever since he's been totally driven to win. He's a chessplayer, a manipulator, and loves to mess with the heads of his opposition, a trait that he perfected as a bodybuilder. That's where his love of deal-making comes in and the bigger the deal and the larger the adoring crowd the more he is addicted. His tactics have included dirty tricks since the beginning. He lies without any effort in the least, in a form of self-delusion that makes him sound credible when making the delivery... just like Clinton did.
Nope, my concerns about Arnold getting caught and taking conservatives down with him just like Nixon did are justified by his history, which I have followed since before his first bodybuilding title. Nixon had the same character flaw as Arnold and it's ironic that the latter immediately identified with the President when he arrived in this country. My gut says he'll suffer a similar fate one way or another. The one thing out of this I DON'T want to see is the Constitution opened up to foreign born citizens as that faithless weasel Orrin Hatch has already proposed.
BTW, at the rate Arnold is raising cash, he'll have accrued $72 million by the time he runs again. That's not chump change, even for him. If he gets his way with this idiotic boondoggle in hydrogen, he'll have a lot more money than he does now too, "conflict of interest" or "rule of law" not flustering him in the least if they are in his way, as I showed above when he tried that blatant stunt with the $4.5 million in a campaign "loan." He's learned that his own money has limited usefulness in reaching his goal, and has chosen to play the game in spades instead. That's why he's raising the cash so aggressively. I fully expect him to invest it shrewdly.