He knew he would never survive a Primary any more than Riordan did!!! So the convention swooned for Schwartzenegger in a premature... well, never mind!!!
HERE was my prior round-up of that news
I get the feeling here that what the CAGOP was swooning about was Schwarzenegger's FILMIC legacy, his screen appeal, some pretend personna.
I agree that he's made a great series of interesting, powerful personnas successful onscreen, but it seems that like most fans of films everywhere, the CAGOP was no different and just swooned at the "idea" of Arnold Schwarzenegger, not the reality of him.
Otherwise, I think he's proving to be that Trojan Horse he was earlier, this thread, characterised to be. Didn't he earlier on say that Ted Kennedy was the one who he'd learned "the most" from and who was one of his advisors? I think we now see the Ted Kennedy reality of Schwarzenegger, not the onscreen one.