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Former Governor Pete Wilson is on the Hugh Hewitt show now and has just said that he will support Arnold in the election.

The newly emerging Arnold Democrat is as socially liberal to libertarian as the Reagan Democrat was socially conservative. He or she may well be an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. But one thing seems certain: The Arnold Democrat poses every bit as much of a threat to the California Democratic Party as the Reagan Democrat did decades ago.

President Bush jumped into the California recall craziness yesterday and predicted that Arnold Schwarzenegger would make a "good governor." Confessing to being "fascinated" by the struggle to oust Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, Bush joked that he wouldn't want to tangle with Conan the Candidate. "I will never arm-wrestle Arnold Schwarzenegger," the President said at his Crawford, Tex., ranch. "No matter how hard I try, I'll never lift as much weight as he does." Until now, he had been reluctant to go near the California confusion or endorse Schwarzenegger, a fellow Republican. But yesterday, Bush sort of did just that. "I...

<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped a political bomb tonight. He announced that he will run for governor of California.</p> <p>"There is a total disconnect with the people of California and the politicians of California,'' Schwarzenegger told Jay Leno on the ""Tonight Show."</p>

New Fox News Alert -- looks like things are really going to get interesting!

Arnold’s In, Now How Do We Proceed OK fellow Californian Republicans and conservatives – and interested out-of-staters, no what Arnold has announced he is in, what do we do? Do we rally around him as the front runner to make sure Davis is recalled and get a Governor who at least embodies a semblance of conservatism? What becomes of the very supportable candidacies of McClintock and Issa? Do we still support either of them even with Schwarzenegger (learn to spell it) in the race? If so do we split the vote and end up with Feinstein, or more likely Loretta...

Here we go. They say this is going to be a press conference, so listen in......... Gray Davis has just been declared dead......