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"I know it's hard for you to accept but Mr. Schwarzenegger can be, and IS, wrong on this."

If second-hand "information" from talk radio is to be believed, then Arnold is the devil incarnate.

The problem with expecting rational *adults* to swallow such daily agitprop, however, is that none of the talk radio hosts or internet attackers can ever manage to quote Arnold directly. Instead, it's always "I've heard so-n-so claim..."

And that's probably good enough to get some gossip going in the local beauty parlors, but what mature adult is going to fall for it?!

Either people can quote Arnold supporting SB1160 or else they can't.

If they can't, then what exactly are they ascribing to Arnold that they have no evidence of?!

I mean, this is the governor who REPEALED Gray Davis' illegal alien license bill, and yet here we have people who very much wanted that repeal to happen...suddenly acting as though Arnold was Gray Davis himself rather than the man who recalled Gray and repealed his car tax and illegal alien license law.

But, but, but...what about the guy down at the 7/11 who knows someone who's cousin is dating this dude in Sacramento that eats lunch where one of the Lt. Governor's aides does and he said that Arnold is really Vincente Fox's love child from his days in the Pan Mexican-Austrian Yodeling team.

I mean, this is the governor who REPEALED Gray Davis' illegal alien license bill,

No it isn't.
Schwarzenegger had no leverage over the Dems, except that given him by 500,000 signatures on SaveOurLicense petitions, a drive Schwarzenegger refused to support.
Schwarzenegger always said he would support an Illegal Alien drivers license bill that would meet his security concerns. Schwarzenegger supporters who believed and believe otherwise are simply lying to themselves.

this is the governor who REPEALED Gray Davis' illegal alien license bill,

More on that:
Dan Savage, chief of staff for state Sen. Gilbert Cedillo, who authored SB 60, explains that Cedillo did not stand in the way of the new governor's promise to repeal the hard-fought-for bill, "because if Cedillo had, the matter would have ended up on March ballot"--a statement that hints at the fear of a backlash against the measure among California voters.
Instead, the matter is back in the hands of the legislature, as Cedillo and others work to come up with solutions that are acceptable to the governor, who claims to have his finger on the people's pulse.
And while some fear President Bush's recent proposals to reform immigration laws are nothing but empty promises to woo Latino voters in an election year, Savage reports that after they were announced, "Gilbert [Cedillo] got a call from Schwarzenegger to say that if the president is saying we've got to acknowledge that these workers are here and give them some legal status, then that has to help politically to get this legislation through."
Unlicensed to Drive
From the February 4-11, 2004 issue of Metro Santa Cruz.
(FR link)