Today Dana Rohrabacher spoke positively of Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sean Hannity's radio program. Dana is very cool, very conservative, my son-in-law's congressman.
My step-sister in Capistrano Beach reflects a large percentage of Californians--paranoid of Bush, hates him, any Democrat better than any Republican.
My thirty-five-year college fraternity friend and his NASA wife in Berkeley are vacationing in France, with an f-u for Bush--now there's a conservative base.
I went door-to-door for Goldwater--and learned politics is the art of the possible.
It's still possible for Republicans to put a Democrat in Sacramento--how about Loretta Sanchez? She's Hillary's choice for her vice president--the hispanic thing que no.
I listen to Rush fifteen hours a week every week and he's frequently right and on Arnold Schwarzenegger he's wrong.
Arnold can win and create a friendly climate for Bush next year and put 55 big bullets within reach--at least put the Democrats on the sidelines in Sacramento.
My great-to-the-fifth grandfather fought King George and there were squabbles between the Jeffersonians and Madison's bunch--but they kept their fire directed at the red coats.
I just got this from friends and it's fascinating in its unexpected insight on Arnold Scharzenegger--
A few months ago John Fund told of seeing Schwarzenegger at think tank meetings in the 1980s. He didn't just go to the meeting but stayed after to talk with the other free-market geeks.
Best wishes, Iris
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Arnold Schwarzenegger graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Superior with a BA in business and international economics in 1979.
http://www.uwalumni.com/askabe/athletics.html
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John Fund
Aug. 8, 2003
Opinion Journal, WSJ
... At age 21, he came to America in 1968 with little money and even less command of English.
A natural capitalist, he bought up office buildings and apartment complexes before he ever made a film.
His business empire now includes shopping malls, a Boeing 747 he leases to an airline, and a large chunk of Santa Monica real estate.
He took evening courses in business at UCLA, and earned a bachelor's degree in business by mail from the University of Wisconsin at Superior.
...The consultants Mr. Schwarzenegger has assembled--call them "Team Arnold"--are all battle-hardened veterans of the four successful campaigns that Pete Wilson [Calif.] ran for senate and governor in the 1980s and 1990s.
Several played a pivotal role in Boris Yeltsin's come-from-behind re-election campaign for Russian president in 1996.
Mr. Gorton, Team Arnold's captain, helped engineer Mr. Wilson's dramatic defeat of Kathleen Brown, Jerry Brown's sister, in the 1994 gubernatorial election.
Sean Walsh was Gov. Wilson's communications director; Bob White and Joe Shumate, former top staffers for Mr. Wilson, may play key roles.
Don Sipple will actively be involved in message development, although Mr. Schwarzenegger seems to have an instinct for connecting with voters. "The people are working hard," he said at his announcement. "The people are paying the taxes, the people are raising the families, but the politicians are not doing their job. The politicians are fiddling, fumbling and failing."
...His charitable activities include a foundation that provides after-school programs for 200,000 kids and served as the inspiration for Proposition 49--an initiative he sponsored last year to expand after-school programs to every school in California.
In a stroke of political genius, the initiative didn't raise taxes or cut any other program.
Its funding mechanism only kicks in when economic growth naturally increases state revenues.
Proposition 49 carried 50 out of the state's 53 congressional districts, winning endorsements from both Rep. Chris Cox, [fan of Ayn Rand] an Orange County Republican, and Rep. Henry Waxman, a Hollywood Democrat...
Bill Saracino, a former head of Gun Owners of California...notes that Mr. Schwarzenegger has opposed strict gun controls and contributed to several free-market think tanks...
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This is from:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110003854
I like Rush, and Hillary never did run for the Senate--did she?