'Girlie men' remark began Schwarzenegger's battle and downfall

Sac Bee ^ | 12/16/05 | Dan Walters

[HitmanLV]

The line got him a cheap pop at the RNC, at least!

[NormsRevenge]

just another throwaway line from the one-time action movie star, something like "I'll be back" or "Hasta la vista, baby."

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from a throwaway Gubinor who can't tell his left from his right or can he?

[TheCrusader]

"'Girlie men' remark began Schwarzenegger's battle and downfall"

Or so the girlie men want us to believe.

[hummingbird]

Or so the girlie men want us to believe.

Heh, heh, heh....looks like one of those "if we say it loud enough and long enough, people will believe it" situations.

Gov. needs to re-position himself before the jackals have too much time to congregate.

[Logophile]

In retrospect, the "girlie men" remark and all it implied was a tactical political error that came to haunt Schwarzenegger.

Nonsense. The author would have us believe that the Democrats in the legislature would have gone along with Schwarzenegger if only he had not spoken harshly about them. I don't buy that for an instance.

[davisfh]

"The author would have us believe that the Democrats in the legislature would have gone along with Schwarzenegger if only he had not spoken harshly about them."

Exactly right. They would have him show weakness? Yeah! That'd work real well.

[Arcy]

'Girlie men' remark began Schwarzenegger's battle and downfall.

I disagree. It bolstered his appeal with me. Need more "straight shooters" in the RNC. In other words...call a spade a spade.

[Dallas59]

[4mycountry]

Sometimes, just for the heck of it, I do a really bad Ahnold impression and say, "Don't be such a girly man!" It's so much fun... :)

[BigBobber]

Walters has been a Dem hack for years.

Yes, the Dems won the last round, but they had to empty their coffers of tens of millions of dollars to do it. The battle is not over.

[NormsRevenge]

I expected those who think Girlie Man was some genius stroke to show up.

imo, it's sad commentary on the depths that politics has sunk to as well as folks ability to analyze politicians and see thru the hype that surrounds this Gub.

[Bonaparte]

If Walters thinks the democrats would have gone along with budgetary sanity if only Arnold had been "nicer" to them, then Walters is living in a dream world.

[lilylangtree]

The phrase is apropos especially in CA, specifically San Francisco.

[NormsRevenge]

It would have been nice if he had tried to show a little backbone on the budget side of things.

Maybe, next time. (Yeah right)

[WasDougsLamb]

---Oh no you didn't go there! ROTFLMAO

[Lazamataz]

'Girlie men' remark began Schwarzenegger's battle and downfall

Nonsense.

[NormsRevenge]

'Girlie men' remark began Schwarzenegger's battle and downfall

Nonsense.

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It could have been his 2 budgets he proposed too, both whoppers. or quite a few other things.

[Lazamataz]

I think it was his sagging muscles and his angular wife.

Or was it his angular muscles and sagging wife?

[NormsRevenge]

Hey, Maria looked like she won the Extreme Makeover competition if a recent pic is untouched. ;-)

cotton balls and pancake powder can do that for a person.