Mark Steyn: The Gubernator?

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 08/10/03 | Mark Steyn

[diotima]

Ping to Anna!

Thanks for the ping here, Saber. Steyn really has a way with words.

[gcruse]

and don't mind wounding a Kennedy in the collateral damage.

It has been said that Rose Kennedy when asked why her daughter-in-law Joan lived in Boston while her son Ted lived in Virginia, responded, "Who's Virginia?"

[TERMINATTOR]

a pre-op transsexual hooker

[Sabertooth]

death-before-electability crowd who dominate GOP primaries in California

Thanks for the ping! This is my absolute favorite line of the article. Maybe if the conservatives would quit electing non-electable guys in the primary, Republicans would have more office holders.

Perhaps if some of the out of state GOP whiz kids in the pander-before-electability crowd didn't insist on shoveling un-nominatable guys at us, and hanging our actual nominees out to dry with stingy fundraising and unwinnable policy directives that make zero sense in California, we'd have more Republican office holders here.

Does the RNC spin never end? Are they ever accountable their blunders?

[Bullish]

Arnold represents the other California: entrepreneurial energy, wit and invention, the California that understands that if Hollywood and Silicon Valley were run by "qualified" people like Davis we'd still be watching flickering silents and you'd need union-approved quill-feathers to send e-mail.

Bada-Bing!

[arasina]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey! I've said it before and I'll say it again: Mark Steyn is brilliant! I like his entire take on the Ah-nuld candidacy. And he can really conjure up the images:

But no matter how many little clowns pour out of the miniature car, it is the entry of the muscleman that has made this a circus worth seeing.

[AAABEST]

Victoria you're wasting your time if you're trying to sell me Arnold. I would never buy that package....ever. Even if I could vote in that pathetic former great state.

Besides I'm with you, I want to see him elected, albeit for different reasons than you do. I want to see him as governor because I think Californians are collectively a corrupted, Godless, selfish, contemptuous bunch who need to learn some hard lessons in life. I think a blockheaded, half-nazi, pro-death, liberal, pro-homo hollyweird enviro is absolutely perfect for them.

They deserve the self inflicted wrath that they're bringing upon themselves. I'll take pleasure in watching them stew in their own juices.

GO ARNOLD!!!!!

[FairOpinion]

"You can bet your bottom dollar that Karl Rove is overjoyed at the prospect of Ah-nald(R) in the Governor's chair during next year's election. "

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From article at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/961259/posts?page=1

"Like the Democrats, senior Republicans are only too aware of California's crucial electoral importance. The state carries more voting weight than any other in presidential elections and was lost decisively by President Bush to Al Gore in 2000.

The Schwarzenegger candidacy is seen by many Republicans in Washington as the first step towards winning back California in 2004.

As one senior Republican strategist said: "The Democrats are going to come unglued in California, and it's going to bleed over into the presidential race." On Friday, in a statement that took his own staff by surprise, President Bush said that the Hollywood star "would make a good governor", ignoring the White House's officially neutral stance on the race.

"Arnold got what he needed out of that," said a White House official. "He got a blessing from Bush."

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL, now tell me what you really think.

[diotima]

Hey, I live there!

[jla]

Getting warmer. It's certainly nuclear, if the Dems know where to look, and don't mind wounding a Kennedy in the collateral damage.

Why not just elaborate on what you think you know?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thanks for the ping....and another must read from Steyn!!!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Getting warmer. It's certainly nuclear, if the Dems know where to look, and don't mind wounding a Kennedy in the collateral damage.

Arnold has denied even having women in his trailer while making films, and there are witnesses who have corroborated this. When a magazine gossiped about him having a boorish behavior and fondling actresses working with him, not only he defended himself vigorously but so did many others as well, and the magazine couldn't prove a single thing. He has said he is a family man and so is his wife, I haven't read or seen anything that would suggest Arnold is a degenerate, but if you have evidence to the contrary, by all means, be my guest.

[Wolfstar]

Thanks for pinging me to this article Steyn is brilliant. I love reading his columns and agree with him most of the time. This is no exception.

By the way, I wonder how many people saw Arianna Huffington's shameless act this morning at the Norwalk County Building when she tried to horn in on Arnold's appearance, knocked over the microphones, and then got royally booed by the crowd? The woman is pond scum. I take that back — at least pond scum serves a useful purpose in nature.

[Jabba the Nutt]

I'll predict Arrianna's vote total now: 757.

[Consort]

Arnold is a Moderate to Conservative Liberal Republican married to a Liberal Democrat, to put it simply.

[Wolfstar]

Actually, Perot and Clinton made a deal back in 1992. Remember the sequence of events? Clinton's candidacy was in trouble due to the stories about his womanizing. All of a sudden, Perot jumps into the race and does what? Saves Clinton's candidacy by (1) taking the focus off Clinton, and (2) becoming a magnet for disgruntled Conservatives and others. What did Perot expect in return? His Perot Systems company was going to get what would have been an immensely lucrative contract to provide the hospital software and computing resources when the Clinton health care plan became law.

Perot got out of the race when Clinton's poll numbers moved ahead of Bush's in the summer, using some lame excuse about his daughter's wedding. Perot jumped back in the race when Bush started to gain that ground back in the fall. Was the timing of his withdrawal and reentry just coincidence? If you believe that, there's this bridge for sale in Brooklyn I want to speak with you about.

[B-Chan]

Okay, Arnold's not a Nazi. He was born in the Austrian town of Thal, but not until 1947, and thus was technically unable to join the Nazi Party no matter how much he may have wanted to. But he certainly has family ties to the Nazis. His wife's grandfather, Joe Kennedy, was one of America's most prominent Nazi sympathisers.

Zing! Ooh, that's gotta hurt in Hyannis Port.

[Wolfstar]

It's because the "death-before-electability crowd" is perpetually disgruntled. If they can't get a 100% complete loaf, they'd rather starve. Oddly, they always seem to be more disgruntled with everyone except the Left/Dems.