Posted on 05/19/2011 9:49:59 AM PDT by SmithL
Sacramento anti-tax advocate Ted Costa looks back at the events he set in motion when he helped kick off California's historic gubernatorial recall in 2003 - culminating in the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger - with more than a little disgust.
"He's betrayed the people who supported him from Day One," said Costa of the former GOP governor, who this week acknowledged betraying wife Maria Shriver by having an affair and an out-of-wedlock child with a housekeeper more than a decade ago. "I don't know why people are shocked."
Melanie Morgan, the former KSFO conservative talk show host who was dubbed the "Mother of the Recall," is also angry. "He squandered his marriage and the good will of the people of California," Morgan said. "And now, he's squandered any legacy."
The anger of leaders in the recall of then-Gov. Gray Davis, which turned Schwarzenegger from an aging action hero into a state political leader, dramatizes the ripple effects of the sordid scandal that has rocked California.
New revelations surfaced on Wednesday, when the New York Times reported that Schwarzenegger helped his family's longtime housekeeper and the mother of the child, Mildred Patricia Baena, buy a home in Bakersfield last year.
The tawdry tale of infidelity - besides having deep personal impacts on Schwarzenegger's family - has rocked conservative activists around the state. Many of them were involved in the effort to organize and raise money for the recall election.
"It's really despicable," said Jon Fleischman, who publishes the popular Flashreport.org website and who was a supporter of the 2003 recall. Conservatives, he said, are now appalled at Schwarzenegger's record, both personal and political. . . .
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Schwarzenegger is and always will be just another cheesy actor with no morals. He got lucky and became Govenor of California for a while and that didn’t work out very well.
First Edwards, then Tiger, now Arnie. Now get back to kissing Bill Clintons’ axx, you’ve enjoyed it so long, better throw in a few blow jobs for good measure, come on now you know you like it. We may have to turn your case over to Barney Fife. Hurry up now, get wih it.
That’s also how I see it. My first thought, upon seeing the woman, was, “What the @#%@ was he thinking? Was he really that hard up? Of course, looking at that bony bag of a wife of his, who knows? The male sex drive knows almost no boundaries, and without it, the human race probably would have died out long ago.
“...Now get back to kissing Bill Clintons’ axx, you’ve enjoyed it so long, better throw in a few blow jobs for good measure,..”
Excuse me?
You go kiss your own ass.
It sounds like the whole GOP - minus Jeff Sessions and a few others on immigration.
Agreed.
Maria wasn’t always that thin. I read an interview with Arnold from years ago where he admitted pushing her to lose weight. She was fine the way she was.
And that maid is one homely skank.
Just maybe he compromised and went liberal because he was never really conservative,and the Democrats threatened to expose his sordid affairs?
Tsk tsk. The fools who insisted on choosing Arnold over Tom McClintock are no longer happy. Pity.
Glad you are alive and able to type.
THE FORNICATOR
Sperm-inator?
In policy and personal life, he has proven himself to be a Kennedy.
Ahnold is not only an immoral maggot. He's an immoral maggot with extremely bad taste.
She looks like the Riddler in Batman, only in drag.
I would have rather had a conservative.
It’s bad enough that he had an affair that the entire world knows about, but it seems to me that it’s far worse that the world now knows that he had an affair with an ugly woman.
Of course his wife looks like the skeleton from the Crypt.... to me.
I didn’t even give him that much credit. He was just a dancing bear.
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