Posted on 11/08/2006 7:36:58 AM PST by SmithL
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's political rehabilitation and re-election has Democrats wondering whether he'll take on Sen. Barbara Boxer when her term comes up in 2010.
Termed-out state Sen. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, has already raised the question, and so has former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
The thinking? "His wife is part of the Kennedy clan, and so it would be natural for a glamorous Kennedy star to elevate himself to the U.S. Senate as the next Barack Obama,'' Brown said.
After all, "here's a guy investing $15 million to $20 million of his own money in the governor's race,'' Brown said. "That can't be what he's after."
Speier said she heard Schwarzenegger recently in San Francisco saying how much he enjoys public service. That convinced her he intends to stay in the game.
"He said it in such a way that this guy is going to go wherever he can go," Speier said. "And where else can he go but to the Senate? ... He is a competitor more than anything else.''
In public, Schwarzenegger's people say they aren't looking down the road. "Gov. Schwarzenegger is 100 percent focused on being governor,'' campaign spokesman Adam Mendelsohn said.
But one senior Schwarzenegger adviser, speaking on background, said that "nothing is being taken off the table.
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Um...what "political rehabilitation"?
And bloody hell...the last thing we need in Congress is another liberal RINO. Forget it.
That would be great.
A RINO is still more to the right than the closet socialist Boxer.
Yeah! Let's stick with Boxer, and her conservative principles.
"Anybody who tells you it's as much fun to be a senator as a governor will lie to you about other things as well."
Can't remember who said it. Anybody know?
I say "closet" you say "more or less". They mean the same thing.
Hey, HE WON, MCCLINTOCK LOST!!!
Get used to it, Arnold's model is the way for Pubbies to win in California. If he runs against the Box and wins in 2008, then more power to him. He'll parlay that into Majority Leader status. He can't be President, but he can be close.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Pete Wilson?
No. A RINO simply drags the Republican party down to the level of the Dhimmicrats. And once there, the Dhimmicrats then beat us with experience, thanks to their long history of being liberal sellouts.
Not surprised that ilk would prefer Boxer to Arnie. The ilk herd sure scored big last night, now its your time for a little preemptive disruption.
Look what happened to Dan Lundgren, who was groomed for that seat. He got hammered.
Arnold figured out a way for a Republican to win a statewide race. I love Tom McClintock, but he'll never go past Ventura County because he can't win statewide, not in this environment.
Arnold can, and the Terminator is drawing a bead on the Babs.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
I'll take RINO Ahnold over Barbara Bouncer any day.
Yesterday was a great victory for your ilk.
I think that San Francisco and Los Angeles and the rest of entire California Pacific coast will have to fall into the ocean from an earthquake before an R candidate you would support would be capable of winning in California.
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