The Loneliness of Governor Schwarzenegger

LA Times ^ | 7/12/10 | Jennifer Steinhauer

[calcowgirl]

Unfortunately, he was just reading from a script and lying through his teeth (economics degree? Hah!) I have little doubt that it was just a paid advertising gig for Arnie.
He wouldn't know free enterprise if it bit him in his oversized gluteus maximus.

[Bigg Red]

...he may have still been there at the very start ....

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I doubt it. He has always been where the Kennedys wanted him to be.

[Digger]

Arnold Schwarzenegger never had what it took to become governor in the first place. California has perhaps the stupidest electorate in the nation. They put this clown into office in a special election where they had the chance to put in a really good candidate in Tom McClintock.

I still want to rub it in to the people on this site that supported this idiot. The McClinock supporters were ridiculed because they said that a conservative couldn't win here. I now wish Davis would have stayed. Read my tagline for the past yrs.

[truthguy]

We are in complete agreement. I wasn't on FR at the time but I've heard others express the same sentiments that they believed Arnold Schwarzenegger was a conservative. I knew he wasn't and was only pretending to be. The guy is a clown and I knew this for some specific reasons.

KSFO Radio and another radio station in SOCAL were the driving forces behind the California Recall Petition in 2003. Without these stations, the recall never would have happened. Arnold would have never made it to the statehouse in the conventional sense. He could not have survived a Republican Primary. He would have been flushed out during this process. But he skated through in the special election. Arnold didn't have the decency to come onto the two Radio Stations that were responsible for putting him into the governorship. He lacked the courage to stand up to the barrage of questions that the hosts and listeners would have put before him. He lacked the knowledge and he would have been skewed on either one of these radio shows. Tom McClintock was and is a frequent guest on these stations and he takes on all questions. So there we have it. This is how I knew Arnold was an AH and it was obvious. The people who voted for him were fools.

[Patron92]

Arnold - “Welcome to the Hotel California”.

[lowbridge]

Where are all those lying asshat sycophants and paid bots now ?

They're pushing Mitt Romney's candidacy on the Romney threads now....

Their mantra: HE CAN WIN!!!

[NathanR]

You should have heard John and Ken of kfi640.com mocking this article yesterday.

[NathanR]

He came on KFI numberous times during his elections. Not so much when he veered left.

[BillyBoy]

>> I said in 2003 he’d be an epic fail disaster and he’s proven I wuz right. <<

Amen. Ahnuld's positions on the issues differed little from Cruz Bustamante and he governed just like the DIABLO (Democrat In All But Label Only) that we predicted he'd be. Not ONE of the lofty predictions his cheerleaders on this board made (he'll deliver California to Bush, he'll get the budget under control, he'll end Democrat dominance of the General Assembly, etc.) came to pass.

I can think of precisely ONE instance where I was proud of Ahnuld as Governor -- the Tookie Williams execution where the Austrian socialists threatened to remove his name from their stadium and revoke his citizenship, and the Hollyweird crowd had a 24-7 candle vigil trying to turn the murderous Crips gang founding thug into a victim. Ahnuld called their bluff, told them all to F themselves, and nonchantly fried Tookie. But the fact of the matter is, Gray Davis was a pretty staunch death-penalty supporter and would have done the same thing. So despite Ahnold standing up to leftists for once in his life, there was no net gain in that circumstance either.

The problem with Ahnuld's supporters is they only cared about the short-term goal... what a morale victory it would be to "beat Gray Davis". You could have run ANYONE against Davis and they would have blindly voted for that person (and in hindsight Davis wasn't even as bad as Arnold!) The fact the candidate they rallied around to do so was fatally flawed was of little consequence to him. They just accepted Ahnold's scripted talking points about "Milton Friedman" and believed his conservative backers would sway a man wedded to the Kennedy klan. Bad mistake. Now we see the long term effects of a "Republican" doing the Democrats dirty work for them over two terms.

I do feel better when some of Ahnuld's formerly staunch supporters here have admitted they were wrong and now say they would have voted for Tom McClintock in hindsight. But will this lesson be learned in other races? I'm hopefully with Mark Kirk's latest (in a decade long record of treason) action, supporting Elega Kagan, will finally cause the GOP base to accept that Mark Kirk is NOT a Republican, he is just a swarmy socialist Democrat running as a Republican. Indeed, just like Arnold, Mark Kirk is to the LEFT of many card-carrying Chicago Democrat politicians. Imagine the damage he'll do after six years in office. Just like the California recall, within a few months of "Republican" Mark Kirk in power, we'll be wishing the worthless lame duck RAT Roland Burris was still in Obama's Senate seat.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yeah, don’t have to sell me on a lot of that. I get a little sick and tired of all the rah-rah crap from a lot of folks when they say, “We gotta beat fill-in-the-blank” without considering that the person that beats Mr. or Mrs. Fill-in-the-blank may end up being worse in the long run for our cause. They only see the momentary “on paper” victory, but never the long term stuff, which is the most important. I called Ah-nold’s victory properly in 2003, that it was nothing but a Pyrrhic one. Ditto with the execrable Mark Kirk. If I’m really lucky, I might have a few (or maybe one) rah-rah’er come up to me long after the damage is done and lament to me, “Oh, you were right.” Whoopie. They shoulda listened ahead of time.