Report: Rob Lowe May Join Arnold[Schwarzenegger]'s Campaign Team

Fox News Online ^ | 8/15/03

[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.

[Prince Charles]

Former "West Wing" star Rob Lowe may get into politics for real -- as an advisor to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

With the addition of dwarf tossers and a bearded lady then the team will be complete.

[geedee]

We're here on FreeRepublic and we support Arnold. Deal with it.

We'll see. I hope I'm wrong. I hope Arnold is Ronald Reagan part deux with an accent.

By the way, what is YOUR definition of a conservative?

There are NO absolutes in the liberal world. NONE! Little Johnny robbed the 7-11 because his mother beat him on Thursday mornings. Peter Pimp deals in flesh because he has low self-esteem. Sammy the Serial Slayer kills eighteen women because the doctor dropped him on his head when he was born to his drug-crazed, single, street-walking mother. Greta the Graduating Senior can't read because there was thirty-two students in her second grade class instead of only twenty-eight and the teacher couldn't give her enough "personal" attention. The word "is" so confuses Pee Wee Klintoon that he's exonerated in liberal minds -- that and oral sex really isn't sex or, depending on what liberal camp you're in, it was "just" sex so why the big deal.

Drango, that's the problem. There are absolutes in this world! The blurring of the lines between the political parties and liberal-conservative camps are, because of the smoke-screens left by the blurring, leaving those of us who believe in right and wrong, who believe in a strong law and order society, who believe the Bible is more than a Cliff Notes Guide on how to live ones life, and who believe one must be held responsible for ones own actions with nowhere to turn.

Both parties are wishy-washy, professional politicians who stand for nothing, who fight for nothing, who do nothing but try to assure themselves of a job after the next election cycle.

Is that what conservatism has come to?

Again I ask you . . . What is your definition of conservatism?

[Hildy]

This is where I draw the line...this has to be a joke, please say it's a joke.

[geedee]

Well said, BlackElk. Well said.

[Hildy]

Is that true? I have never seen that...let me do a google on that...I'll be right back...

[Libertina]

The guy who likes the young girls? Great choice /s Arnold is going from tolerable to whackjob in a matters of days..er...decisions.

[doug from upland]

He's not my first choice......he is the only choice, however, unless we want MECHA's Cruz Bustamante. Those are the political facts in California. Simon can't win. My first choice McClintock can't win. It's Arnold or Cruz. I'll hold my nose and vote for the Terminator.

[Hildy]

I'm back from googleland and I key worded Rob Lowe and Republican and I didn't find any evidence that he has "matured" into a Republican.

[Sabertooth]

Is this for real? Ironic, given the nature of Lowe's last splash in politics, no?

[niki]

Cool, let me know when Alec Baldwin, Susan Saradon and Tim Robbins join the team.

[Sabertooth]

We're (conservatives) here on FreeRepublic and we support Arnold. Deal with it.

We are? We do?

I couldn't begin to kown my take on Arnold, because I don't know his take on the issues.

[bmwcyle]

Rob Lowe --- 16 year old girls and video cameras for everyone. Rob beat Snoop Doggie to the punch.

[Sabertooth]

Who would you support for Governor of California?

Is that a poll of Freepers who are registered California voters?

[Hildy]

Here's the closest thing I could find:

Any entertainment program that gets you to reconsider American history without seeming too much like a civics class is a program with which to be reckoned.

"New facts are particularly devastating for those who say Richard Nixon, for example, just made his name as a Commie basher and tore down Alger Hiss for his own good," Lowe noted. "Nixon was right about Alger Hiss and people don't realize that. Listen, I'm no fan of Richard Nixon, but it turns out that he was right about that."

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, too.

"They were both cause celebres, particularly for liberal Democrats," Lowe noted, "and it turns out they were wrong."

It was just a year ago people thought Lowe was bitter that "The West Wing" had become an ensemble drama rather than a star vehicle for him. ("My good friends the tabloids," he said. "That was a real head-scratcher to me and hurtful.") But it can hardly bother him that he gets one of Sorkin's trademark, center-stage monologues this week.

"It's just [an episode] about betrayal, a show about disillusionment, and that's a scene that anybody can relate to, particularly with what's going on now when I read about this spy case," he said, citing the series' patriotic optimism as its chief appeal.

"We've been through a time of great cynicism in this country and, in a weird way, I think [the fact] that people are so cynical about the process is why the show really works, because it's sort of an antidote," Lowe said. "Americans are optimistic people. We want to believe and deep down we know that our system is the best in the world. This show speaks to that."

So compelling and convincing is its take on White House life, even if it strains reality for dramatic effect, that people are forever trying to connect the dots between the fictional administration and its real-life counterpart. Former White House aide George Stephanopoulous, in his new role as a commentator at ABC News, had Lowe cornered the other day.

"He says: `OK, Rob. Let's cut to the chase. Let's talk about The Big Rumor,' " Lowe said. "I go, `You mean the rumor that I'm playing you?' He goes, `No, the rumor that you're really a Republican.' "

Now there's a headline.

[Republican Red]

I guess I google different than you. I think the guy is basically a RINO but in Hollywood that says alot.

http://rightweare.com/2003_04_20_archive.htm
or
http://www.silvervalley.org/gop/archive/2003_03_01_archive.php

A quote from Rob Lowe - "You know, the best way you can support your troops is to support their Commander in Chief."

http://www.joshlyman.com/articles/rob-hal.html

When Lowe does get out, he gets out big time. He's been a guest at the White House under both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and loves to talk about the differences. ''With Clinton, my kids basically got to carry the suitcase with the codes for the nuclear weapons and sit in the President's chair. With Bush, the staff didn't even lift the velvet rope on the Oval Office.'' Lowe's watching Bush carefully. ''I was very pleased to see him put through a patient's bill of rights even though it wasn't the toothiest version, but I would have been really angry if he didn't grant government funding in some capacity for stem cell research.'' And the GOP's eyeing Lowe too. In addition to that mash note W. sent him (''Just a courtesy thing,'' Lowe insists), ''The West Wing'' -- despite being dubbed ''The Left Wing'' among Lowe's ''friends in the Republican Party'' -- is still immensely popular with the staffers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. ''It's not like we sit around saying 'We've got to respond to Bush on this or that issue,''' says Lowe. ''At this point, the characters are established enough to have lives of their own. President Bartlet is a force to reckon with.''

[medscribe]

Gee...let's see his moves so far:

1. Brought Pete Wilson's campaign machine in...not Riordan's. Pick the people who win, not lose.

2. Got Warren Buffet on board...arguably the most successful investor in couple of generations.

3. Got George Schultz on board for some gravitas. Remember Schutlz? The SecState for the ultimate conservative Ronald Reagan?!

4. Picking up endorsements from GOP officials when no OTHER GOP candidate is getting them.

5. Latest poll numbers show Arnold is getting about 51% of the vote.


Yup, sure sounds like he's marginalizing himself to me! At the rate he's going, he's marginalizing himself straight to a landslide!

[ConservativeMan55]

Ozzy is running his own campaign for governor.

[CyberAnt]

We tried to warn people - Ahhnold is not a conservative - and all his LIBERAL hollyweird people will be more involved in our state's business. Pitiful!! Still voting for Tom!

[mtbopfuyn]

Documentation? That's serious stuff to banter around

You must be too young to remember when he got in big time trouble due to video taping himself having sex with an underaged girl in a motel room. There were still folks surprised to see him back in the Hollywood fold after many years of lost jobs when he got a role on the popular West Wing.

[B Knotts]

Also, most of those votes were before Ahnold started stocking his campaign with DemocRATS.

I think the poll should be reset, so we can vote on it now, with full knowledge of just how liberal Ahnold is.