Posted on 08/15/2003 6:13:50 AM PDT by TheBigB
Former "West Wing" star Rob Lowe may get into politics for real -- as an advisor to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the dashing actor who played the White House deputy communications director Sam Seaborn on the NBC political drama, may join the campaign team.
Lowe is a longtime Democratic activist and friend of Schwarzenegger's and of his wife Maria Shriver.
Schwarzenegger is running for Calif. Governor on the Republican ticket. There are 135 other candidates, including has-been actor Gary Coleman, running in the Oct. 7 governor recall election.
Citing unnamed campaign sources, the Times says Schwarzenegger and Shriver, who is a member of the Kennedy clan, asked Lowe to take a senior campaign spot.
Bonnie Reiss, a strategist for Schwarzenegger's campaign who's also a Democrat, told the newspaper that she's met with Lowe. Campaign representative Karen Hanretty would say only that a formal announcement about the campaign team would be made in days to come.
What next?
Arianna Huffington = former nitwit and current skank for the left.
You agree with Warren Buffet? The anti-Catholic economic liberal?
This gets better everyday. Thanks for providing the laughs, California.
Former nitwit?
Says who? The majority of FReepers support Arnold according to the FR straw poll (below).
Question ...
Who would you support for Governor of California?
McClintock
682 votes - 33%
Simon
175 votes - 8%
Schwarzenegger
1,078 votes - 52%
Other
118 votes - 5%
The answer is that the legendary thespian (for RINOs: don't get excited that's not some new alternative lifestyle much less creative perversion) Rob Lowe, THE Demonrat "activist" Rob Lowe will have a senior executive position in the campaign in charge of nursing its devotees through their daily hangovers.
It is NOT true as Baghdad Bob might say that Sean Penn will soon be hired as Mr. Lowe's experienced assistant. Penn's role will be as foreign policy guru and Iraq cultural expert (Ohhhhhhhh, he is soooooo wasted!) just in case Mr. Muscles ever decides to make a move on the Senate or to replace Colin Powell at the State Department.
Meanwhile, his muscled inevitableness (at least if you listen to the starstruck) is keeping a hand in Hollywood just in case. Rumor has it that he has been heard rehearsing for a possible role as the scarecrow in a rumored remake of the Wizard of Oz. He is having trouble getting down the melody of "If I only had a brain....".
Barbara Boxer will star as the Wicked Witch of the West. The delightful, exquisite, utterly honest and level-headedly non-political Miss Catherine Zeta-Jones (who, asked her preference for president in 2000, answered that she was a citizen of Wales, knew nothing about American politics whatsoever and that acting in movies gives one no particular poliical wisdom or expertise: hint, hint) will be Glenda, the Good Witch of the North.
There is a brisk competition among the usual gang of suspects for the role of the Cowardly Lion especially in the aftermath of the Iraq War. Despie rumors that he would be the Tin Man, Grayout Doofus is expected to be available for the role of the Wizard. Schwarzenkennedy's wife's Uncle Teddy will play the balloon as a natural born gasbag. Planned Barrenhood RINO Pete Wilson will get the coveted Tin Man role so that he may seek a heart even though it may disrupt his relationship with his favorite charity. The Lambda Legal Defense Fund will provide the Munchkins. The Yellow Brick Road will be paid for by California Taxpayers (Why not? They pay for everything else!) Liberace will return from the dead as the Horse of a Different Color. Barbara Streisand will be Toto.
Any questions? The campaign doesn't ANSWER questions!!!!
[When Doofus AND Schwarzenkennedy go down in flames on October 7, we can all sing: Ding, dong, the witch is dead, the wicked witch......" ]
I'm with you. I banged the recall drums as loud as I could for a long time . . . but the conservative movement, IMHO, would be better served by confronting a known enemy than having a liberal or semi-liberal or liberal-sympathizing candidate with an (R) before their name win office.
I'm a Texan and a devout GW supporter but I've never understood his "compassionate" conservatism schtick. Doesn't that imply we were monsters before he came along? And has it done the conservative movement any good?
The so-called "Progressives" are nibbling away at us. The Supreme Court blesses the gay lifestyle and . . . Voila! . . . gay marriage is next on the agenda. We're becoming a homogenized, everything-goes, and there-is-no-right-or-wrong society that's lost it's moral compass.
I'm too dumb to understand all this neo-conservative, paleo-conservative, gay-conservative, hetero-conservative, black-conservative, or white-conservative nonsense. TRUE conservativism needs no modifying, peg-holing modifier to be understood. You know it when you see it. Anything with a hyphen in it makes me nervous.
I only want to know where the REAL conservatives are? It looks to me like the world is swallowing us up and we're "supposedly" in charge. We have the Presidency. We have majorities in the House and Senate. Yet we're the ones always compromising and kissing ass. I just don't get it.
Alas, Ahnold is starting to make me nervous. Hell, everyone else has hyphens . . . I think we should call him a Republi-crat! He shore ain't no Republican but I fear we'll be painted by his brush if he wins . . . and it looks like he will.
Remember, he likes 'em underage so make it 14-17 female demographic. Thank goodness they can't vote.
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