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Struggling Schwarzenegger Taps Bush Team (LA Times)
LAT ^ | April 6, 2006 | LAURA KURTZMAN

Posted on 04/06/2006 7:20:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion

Despite his rocky relationship with the White House, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has surrounded himself with a team of former Bush aides to run his re-election campaign.

The latest addition came last week with Alex Castellanos, a master of the attack ad who helped President Bush's 2004 campaign team transform Sen. John Kerry from a war hero into a weakling in the eyes of many voters.

Given Schwarzenegger's vulnerability this year, some analysts say he was shrewd to hire consultants who know how to attack the opposition when their own candidate is struggling.

Schwarzenegger's re-election team also includes Matthew Dowd, Bush's former pollster and strategist, and Steve Schmidt, who ran Bush's rapid response operation against Kerry before moving to the White House, where he was an aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and helped guide Samuel Alito's Supreme Court nomination.

Bill Carrick, a Democratic strategist, warned that Schwarzenegger's hiring of former Bush hands "makes it harder for Arnold to run away from being a Bush Republican." And Bush is not popular in California, where roughly two-thirds of voters are registered as Democrats or independents.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; rinolovefest; schwarzenegger
LAT keeps using the word "struggling", when in fact Arnold's poll numbers have been going up.
1 posted on 04/06/2006 7:20:39 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
"They had a candidate who dodged the draft, dodged the ... National Guard," Democratic strategist Paul Begala said of Bush. "And they made that candidate look strong against a guy who was shot three times and won the Bronze Star and the Silver Star for valor. That is incredible."

Man, what a lying putz. Just because a man took some rice in the ass doesn't make him fit for the Oval Office, Forehead.
2 posted on 04/06/2006 7:22:43 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: FairOpinion

FYI--Kurtzman is an Associated Press staff writer, not the LA Times.


3 posted on 04/06/2006 7:42:54 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: calcowgirl

The writers don't determine the title, the newspapers do, that's why frequently the same article is in multiple papers with multiple different titles.


4 posted on 04/06/2006 7:44:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: Rastus
Begala... lying putz

That about says it all.

Just because a man took some rice in the ass doesn't make him fit for the Oval Office

ROFL! So true!

5 posted on 04/06/2006 7:44:46 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: FairOpinion

what do you know about newspapers and newswires and the internet, anyway? you got ink in your veins?

ap has a title they stick on the original copy, the papers/news web sites can deviate from it but usually don't


6 posted on 04/06/2006 7:47:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Have you hugged an illegal alien today?)
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To: FairOpinion
The writers don't determine the title, the newspapers do, that's why frequently the same article is in multiple papers with multiple different titles.

Oh. Okay--thanks.

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7 posted on 04/06/2006 7:53:38 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: calcowgirl

Well, OK, so AP is really part of the leftist MSM. Big news!

And how many articles have you seen here, which are exactly the same, with completely different titles?


8 posted on 04/06/2006 7:55:56 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: calcowgirl

lol.. ssshhh.. It happens. ;-)


9 posted on 04/06/2006 7:57:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Have you hugged an illegal alien today?)
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To: Rastus
"They had a candidate who dodged the draft, dodged the ... National Guard," Democratic strategist Paul Begala said of Bush. "And they made that candidate look strong against a guy who was shot three times and won the Bronze Star and the Silver Star for valor. That is incredible."

what incredible nerve and selective memory..forehead's boss never ever served even in the ROTC..even wrote letters that he "loathed the military"..yet when compared to Bush the elder..it was no big deal..if GW Bush was going to dodge the draft..the last thing he would do is fly jets..there is a higher chance of death in training than if he got a job cooking or a desk job..and he could have been called more likely..likely dems have no shame..

10 posted on 04/06/2006 7:58:21 PM PDT by BerniesFriend
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To: FairOpinion

Funny, their attempt to portray him as weak,
with words like "struggling" and "vulnerable".

They only wish he were.


11 posted on 04/06/2006 8:01:07 PM PDT by b9 ("the [evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat Party] alternative is unthinkable" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: FairOpinion

its easy to spot the bias in the press. :)


12 posted on 04/06/2006 8:08:58 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: calcowgirl

I think I detect a pattern here...


13 posted on 04/06/2006 8:13:16 PM PDT by thoughtomator (A nation that cannot or will not control its borders is not a nation at all)
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To: FairOpinion
Hey! He wouldn't be "struggling" if he hadn't "squandered" all his political capital with right thinking righteous conservatives in CA that gave him his big chance because of the way he talked in the Recall!!!

Learn to accept that fact and quit spinning everything you post to the nth degree, for Pete's sake!!! Arnold Snortzenegger is so OVER!!! (Just like Jesse Ventura!)

Just another "flash in the pan," so to speak in CA gold country terms...

14 posted on 04/06/2006 8:39:07 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know man!!! (or especially Waspman!!!))
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To: Rastus

>>
Man, what a lying putz. Just because a man took some rice in the ass doesn't make him fit for the Oval Office, Forehead.
<<

Think about how great life would be if we could actually DO one-tenth of the things RATs claim we can. Shoot Kennedy with NO WITNESSES; blow up the WTC with NO WITNESSES; steal two presidential elections with NO WITNESSES. Man! We could fly just by farting.


15 posted on 04/06/2006 9:52:32 PM PDT by noblejones (Ben Stein for President, 2008.)
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To: FairOpinion
Schwarzenegger has surrounded himself with a team of former Bush aides to run his re-election campaign.

It ain't gonna help.

16 posted on 04/06/2006 10:47:36 PM PDT by FOG724 (http://nationalgrange.org/legislation/phpBB2/index.php)
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To: thoughtomator; calcowgirl
I think I detect a pattern here...

Snickering!

17 posted on 04/06/2006 10:49:56 PM PDT by FOG724 (http://nationalgrange.org/legislation/phpBB2/index.php)
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To: SierraWasp
He wouldn't be "struggling" if he hadn't "squandered" all his political capital with right thinking righteous conservatives in CA

Repeat after me, the kool-aid is good, the kool-aid is good.

18 posted on 04/06/2006 10:51:29 PM PDT by FOG724 (http://nationalgrange.org/legislation/phpBB2/index.php)
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To: calcowgirl
Precious. Simply precious. Too bad the effort was wasted on the FO account.

You'd think the account's owners would review resumes before they let an amateur have access to that account.

19 posted on 04/07/2006 5:34:40 PM PDT by Amerigomag
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To: Amerigomag
Precious. Simply precious.

>:)

You'd think the account's owners ...

You'd think that when one is in a hole, they would quit digging. Sigh--

20 posted on 04/07/2006 6:51:09 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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