And the only difference in this clown and the last one we had for governor is his party affiliation...
Posted on 05/23/2009 7:01:21 AM PDT by kellynla
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Where are all those FReepers who supported this clown in 2003?
Back at the DU I guess...
It will be a joy to see this Austrian creep slink off into the sunset with his repulsive vampire wife. I despise both of them, as I despise the entire Kennedy family.
The problem isn’t his politics, but his personality. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t a badass, he just plays one in the movies. He’s really a very nice guy - too nice for politics. He wants to be liked, and is unhappy when he’s not.
This is what happens when someone runs for the higher offices without experience. If he’d come up through the ranks he’d have either grown a thicker skin or been run out of the game altogether.
..the same emotionalism that was Arnold fever mutated into Obamalaria a few years later...
McClintock could never have been elected in California. It isn't his policies; the guy is just not cool. You have to be cool to get elected here. Reagan was cool. Even Pete Wilson had a little sumptin sumptin...but McClintock is like that mean neighbor who keep your ball when it goes over the fence and lands in his yard. He comes off like an old Crab-Ass.
You are right. Arnold is just way over his head so he treats his political work the way he has approached his life; simply as a popularity contest.
As for despising him, or his wife, or anyone for that matter, hate is not a winning strategy. Listen to how the Cheney haters sound. We don't want to be them.
..it would be interesting to know who you voted for president in ‘00 and ‘04...
There WAS a spending cap and had been for over twenty years, the Gann Spending Limits passed soon after Proposition 13. Arnold got rid of them in his first set of ballot initiatives, Propositions 57 & 58. Then he went to Wall Street to borrow $15 billion, thus paying off the bond houses that provided the seed money for his campaign and costing California a cool half billion unnecessarily because he chose not to use California bond houses.
When are these idiots at the Wall Street Journal going to get it? ARNOLD WAS PART OF A MASSIVE GLOBALIST SCAM, PERPETRATED FROM WALL STREET.
Not true. The Gallup numbers of the late recall election show clearly that it was the conservative defection to Arnold out of fear of Bustamante that kept Tom from winning the recall.
It is NOT impossible for a conservative to win in California. Even after a completely incompetent campaign, Simon came within 360,000 votes of beating Davis.
Good thing you weren't around when George Washington was alive.
I voted for Bush both times but I did so reluctantly, just as I reluctantly voted for McCain in the last election. The point I was making is that folks who voted for Bush should be careful about criticizing those of us who voted for Arnold. Bush was no conservative and I NEVER voted for him or McCain in the primary. Once we get to the general election I work within the realms of reality and vote for who will destroy freedom more slowly.
You mis-characterize what I was saying...I did not say a conservative can't win; I said an uncool conservative can't win. I made the point it is possible to be cool and conservative and I gave two examples. I said McClintock can't win because he comes off as a very uncool old crab-ass.
I'll fess up - I was one who thought Arnold would be good for the GOP. I thought he was a true fiscal conservative, based upon his statements about Reagan making him a Republican, his coming from a socialist country, and his financial prowess. I also thought he would campaign for Bush in 2004, and possibly help make California competetive again for Republicans.
I obviously underestimated the influence of his wife, and how much of a whimp he would turn out to be in facing the Democrat legislature. His poor performance in getting his initiatives passed - this from a guy who should be the ultimate pitchman - was just sad.
Stupid me.
Just curious...did you vote for him in 2006 too?
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