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Is there anybody out there with muscle-man Republican-populist appeal who is bigger, meaner, tougher than the indestructible Sarah Palin? Anyone who could take her on – and take her down in a run for the presidency? It seems a job for only one person – a creature of titanic strength, a man who, once he sets his sights on something, does not unlock like some kind of weird cyborg, maybe. And that one man could only be the Governator, the Terminator: Arnold himself. A new book due out next week reveals that Schwarzenegger hasn’t given up his hopes of parking...

(04-29) 18:43 PDT Burbank, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would love to run for president — if he could. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/29/entertainment/e184301D13.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0mXwI7Nwc

California's Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has generally declined to discuss his future after term limits end his tensure in the state Capitoln January, 2011. ... Schwarzenegger, a Republican who's been discussed as a potential opponent next year for Democrat U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer said he's “not running for anything.” ... “Now I raised taxes, but I’m not running for anything,” Schwarzenegger said. “So I’m more comfortable with it because I’m not running for anything, because I know it’s the right thing. Even though I promised the people of California I’m not going to raise taxes, at the same time I...

Schwarzenegger says that without his acting experience, his job in Sacramento would have been much more difficult. He also says he'd be interested in becoming president if it were possible. By Michael Rothfeld 4:46 PM PST, December 21, 2008 Reporting from Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't said whether he would pursue another job in politics after his final term ends in two years. But there's at least one position he might be interested in, if he were eligible for it: president. "Yeah, absolutely," Schwarzenegger said in an interview airing tonight on "60 Minutes" on CBS, when asked by correspondent...

Reporting from Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't said whether he would pursue another job in politics after his final term ends in two years. But there's at least one position he might be interested in, if he were eligible for it: president. "Yeah, absolutely," Schwarzenegger said in an interview airing tonight on "60 Minutes" on CBS, when asked by correspondent Scott Pelley if he would like to be president. "I think that I am always a person that looks for the next big goal. And I love challenges. I always set goals that are so high, that are almost...

Only the Constitution can keep them apart Mayor Bloomberg’s political guru, Kevin Sheekey, continues his quest to get his boss in a position to run for president. According to a well-placed source, Sheekey’s latest project is to figure out if they could get California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a potential running mate. This summer, Bloomie and Arnie shared a few centrist photo ops. The East Coast–West Coast alliance would have its advantages in the Electoral College, certainly. But other parts of the Constitution are more problematic, like where it mentions that only a “natural-born Citizen … shall be eligible for...

(CBS) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The make-believe presidential ticket of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is gaining some attention. "There would be a fight to see who would be the presidential candidate and who would be the vice presidential candidate," Bloomberg quipped during a trip to California this week. "He would want to arm wrestle for the top spot; I would want to check the Constitution." Most know the Constitution says a president must be a natural born citizen. "It doesn't say anything about the vice president, but the 12th amendment to the constitution ratified in...

With the state's Austrian-born governor sitting 20 feet away in the audience, the bulk of the Republican candidates for president said Thursday they did not favor changing the Constitution to let Arnold Schwarzenegger or other foreign-born citizens run for president. That put the broad GOP field at odds with Schwarzenegger, who has long said he and other immigrant citizens should have the opportunity to run for president. Early on, moderator Chris Matthews polled the 10 Republicans on stage at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley, asking whether they would support the constitutional amendment needed to allow Schwarzenegger to...

"Politics is about compromise. It is about give-and-take. Doesn't anyone here in Washington remember that chapter from their civics book? Division is what Washington has come to represent," Schwarzenegger said. " Reference NewsMax article; www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/2/26/131344.shtml?s=bl&promo_code=2E46-1

THE GOVERNOR OF the nation's largest state was reelected in a landslide in November, even though his Republican Party is a minority in California. He works with Democrats in a way that offers the rest of the country a model of much-needed bipartisanship. To kick off his second term, he has proposed the most ambitious healthcare and environmental reforms in the country, and he is also committed to a massive reconstruction of the state's infrastructure. Yet, oddly enough, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is not on the list of potential presidential candidates in 2008. Why? Because the founders were worried in the...

WASHINGTON - After more than two years as California's governor, including a disastrous 2005 that pummeled his bipartisan image and approval ratings, Arnold Schwarzenegger's novelty and luster on the national political stage is wearing off. With it, he also may be losing some of his clout. Treated like a rock star when he traveled to Washington and New York during his first year and a half in office, Schwarzenegger seemed to have lost some of his glitz this week at a gathering of America's governors. The battalions of reporters and photographers that used to track Schwarzenegger's every move dwindled to...

His protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger still wants to become president of the United States, according to Laurence Leamer, author of "Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger.""That's his dream," Leamer told the Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly Tuesday night. "He thinks the Constitution should be changed [to make it possible for a foreign-born citizen to become president]." The Schwarzenegger biographer said Arnold's speech last summer to the GOP convention was the first step in his presidential campaign. "He intended that speech to be so dramatically positive that America would say: 'We need this man to lead...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California First Lady Maria Shriver said Friday that having her husband serving as governor was hard on their family and that she would prefer to see Arnold Schwarzenegger "back home" instead of run for president. "While I was always raised to believe that public service is the most noble calling, it's all-encompassing," Shriver said on "The Oprah Winfrey Show. "And it's tough, if you have young children. And it's a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week job. I want him home." Appearing on the show alongside her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Shriver repeated several times that if she had her...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he never thought about running for president, denying he's the reason behind talk of amending the Constitution so immigrants can occupy the White House. "I don't think the idea is that all the push is because of me. I mean, I have never thought about running for president, and this is not my vision," Schwarzenegger said Sunday on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." Asked why then he predicted in 1977 he would become president, Schwarzenegger suggested he wasn't serious. "You've got to have a little bit of sense of humor about all this,"...

Hatch, who has known Schwarzenegger for at least a decade, introduced the Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment in July 2003. It would allow people who have been citizens for 20 years to serve as president. Schwarzenegger was naturalized in September 1983. In October 2003, four days before California's recall election that made Schwarzenegger governor, the Utah senator said in a speech in Washington that he could see Schwarzenegger as president. "If he turns out to be a tremendous leader and he proves to everybody in this country that he's totally dedicated to this country as an American," Hatch said, "we...

WASHINGTON - Mario Diaz-Balart can be president, but his older brother Lincoln cannot. The U.S. Constitution says so. That's because there's an important difference in where the two Miami congressmen were born: Lincoln Diaz-Balart in Havana, Cuba; his brother in Fort Lauderdale, after the family fled the Castro revolution. The Constitution bars foreign-born citizens from becoming president, which also rules out two governors of large states: Democrat Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, born in Canada, and Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger, a California Republican. Now, because of Schwarzenegger's political rock-star status, a campaign to amend the Constitution to make naturalized citizens eligible for...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites)'s wife, Maria Shriver, says America may someday amend the U.S. Constitution and elect a foreign-born president -- but it won't be her husband. "Forget about it. It is not going to happen. The process takes years, and this is as far as it goes," Shriver, the niece of former President John F. Kennedy, told Vanity Fair magazine amid talk of amending the Constitution to allow the Austrian-born film star to run for president. Shriver also said that despite their political differences -- she is a Democrat, he a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Arnold Schwarzenegger, making his Sunday talk show debut as governor, said that he and other foreign-born citizens should be eligible to run for the White House and that President Bush can carry California in November if he does more to help the state. The Austrian-born former bodybuilder, in the capital for his first meeting with fellow governors, said he has not thought about running for president in the future. The Constitution says only natural-born citizens of the United States are eligible for the country's highest office. The Republican governor said anyone who has been in a U.S....

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Sunday that he backs a modification of the U.S. Constitution's 22nd Amendment that would allow him to run for president one day. Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" about an amendment introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch that would allow any immigrant who has been a citizen for 20-years to serve as president, the Austrian-born Republican at first joked, "Man, I should look at that because it sounds really good." But when asked if he agreed in principle with the Hatch proposal, Schwarzenegger responded, "Oh, absolutely. "I think that, you know, times have changed," he explained....

Feb. 22, 2004 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, making his Sunday talk show debut as governor, said that he and other foreign-born citizens should be eligible to run for the White House and that President Bush can carry California in November if he does more to help the state. The Austrian-born former bodybuilder, in the capital for his first meeting with fellow governors, said he has not thought about running for president in the future. The Constitution says only natural-born citizens of the United States are eligible for the country's highest office. The Republican governor said anyone who has...