after Friday's lighting of the torch to open the Inner-City Games.
Sacramento Bee/John Decker
Posted on 08/09/2003 7:50:32 AM PDT by RonDog
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:54:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
With one day left for candidates to qualify for the Oct. 7 recall election, former Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth said Friday he would run, while actor Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up the help of former Gov. Pete Wilson and a nod from President Bush.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Savage played a clip where Schwarzenegger was saying that they needed to bring the companies back to California so that there would be money for (listing social programs), so that the state could supply everone's needs. (Wish I had the exact quite, but it was very socialistic.)
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I can't FReepers are getting behind this vacuous, pro-death, liberal-moron-without-a-clue. This is the guy that viewed those who impeached Klinton with contempt.
His answer to the deep and disturbing problems in CA? More "programs". Sorry to inform you that if you support this jackass you're brain damaged.
Schwarzenegger as Soccer Mom
PoliPundit.com ^ | 8/9/03 | PoliPundit
Posted on 08/09/2003 7:03 AM PDT by NYC Republican
No one seems to have a phrase to describe Arnold's politics.
Is he a "conservative," a "moderate," a "liberal" or a "pragmatic libertarian?"
None of the above. Arnold Schwarzenegger is... a Soccer Mom!Your prototypical Soccer Mom isn't a hate-the-greedy-corporations Democrat. Heck, her husband is probably a middle manager at Procter & Gamble. She's a "fiscal conservative," in the sense that she doesn't want more taxes and regulation. She doesn't like affirmative action either, since it goes against her sense of fairness and threatens her childrens' future.
On the other hand, she doesn't want to be seen as a meanie. She thinks Republicans are too hard-edged on some issues. She wishes they were more "tolerant" of minority groups like gays and blacks. She's pro-choice, although she doesn't want abortion to be a widespread practice. She is, of course, an "environmentalist." And she's not averse to Big Government programs like Medicare and Social Security. An easy way to win her vote is to claim that some big-spending entitlement is "for the children." She doesn't see why ordinary people need assault rifles, but she can see why pilots should have pistols.
Now look at Arnold's stated beliefs - vague as they are - and see how they dovetail nicely with Soccer Mom values. When he comes out with detailed policy prescriptions, I bet they'll reflect Soccer Mom values too.
Democrats should be scared of Arnold. He has a massive advantage when it comes to the male vote. If he can appeal to Soccer Moms, he can also steal away women voters who ordinarily provide Democrats with their margin of victory...
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Five years of Davis' pet social programs is what's really killing the California economy.
I can't FReepers are getting behind this vacuous, pro-death, liberal-moron-without-a-clue...See also:
Total Recall -
His advisers say Arnold Schwarzenegger WILL run for governor~ John Fund
The Wall Street Journal. Editorial Page ^ | July 25, 2003 | John Fund
Posted on 07/25/2003 1:34 AM PDT by Elle Bee
Total Recall
By JOHN H. FUND
The recall of Gov. Gray Davis is heading for a fall election. "It'll be covered like a mini-presidential race," says GOP consultant Joe Shumate -- and watched like a thriller movie. Part of the reason will be Arnold Schwarzenegger, who, his campaign advisers believe, will be running -- or starring, to put it in Hollywood idiom, in a political sequel to his "Total Recall."
Few people are more disciplined and better at marketing themselves than Mr. Schwarzenegger. "He will run as a Republican, but his campaign may feel like a third-party insurgency," says Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Weintraub. Ironically, for a macho star of movies like "Terminator 3," he must solidify skeptical conservatives behind him. They will question his more liberal social views and wonder if he can really change the state's anti-business mentality.
Mr. Schwarzenegger needs conservatives because, should Mr. Davis be recalled, the new governor will be whoever wins a plurality of the vote in the simultaneous election to succeed him. He has assembled the team behind former GOP Gov. Pete Wilson's four statewide wins. They've hired 50 people and a preliminary campaign budget is $35 million. Mr. Wilson is bullish on the race saying, "Arnold has a total focus and clarity of vision that would impress voters." He needs the vision: Rep. Darrell Issa, 2002 GOP gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon, and State Sen. Tom McClintock could all run by appealing to conservatives, making the election of a late-entry Democrat possible.
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Mr. Schwarzenegger came to America in 1968 at age 21 with little money and even less English. After winning bodybuilding contests, he took $28,000 in savings and began a real-estate empire. Today he owns shopping malls, a Boeing 747 that he leases to an airline, and chunks of Santa Monica. He earned an MBA from the University of Wisconsin, and married Maria Shriver, a niece of JFK. He pulled down $30 million for "Terminator 3." Last year, his initiative to set up after-school programs in every California school won 50 out of 53 Congressional districts and was endorsed by taxpayer groups because it relies on revenues from natural economic growth rather than higher taxes.
Of course, his life story won't cut any ice if the Terminator doesn't convince people he can tackle the state's budget. "Many GOP activists wonder if Arnold is an empty suit," says John Kurzweil of the California Political Review. "They also wonder why he promotes his films on the Howard Stern show."
Mr. Schwarzenegger will also have to weather personal attacks. Back in 1988 he told Playboy he wouldn't enter politics because "you have to clean up your act." Jamie Lee Curtis, his co-star in "True Lies," says he would be "a complete natural in politics, although he'd have to curb his ribald and wicked sense of humor." But the attacks will go beyond any Hollywood hijinks. "We'll have the tabloids go after him," a top Democratic strategist confided to the LA Weekly, though a negative profile touted by the Davis campaign was largely discredited. A movie security guard told me the actor sometimes belittles people and can be overbearing in his demands for star treatment. "The only thing that makes me nervous is when I don't get my own way," he has admitted.
His support of abortion rights and gay adoption will give social conservatives heartburn.
But many so badly want a winner that they could give the Terminator a pass if he shows respect for their views.
"If he half-tries to come our way and keeps his word, many pro-family voters will go for him," says Gerry Snyder, chair of the California Family Council. "But they need signals."
They're starting. The actor has told his friend Rep. Dana Rohrabacher that he opposes partial-birth abortion and backs the Boy Scouts' right to set private standards for membership. While he supports the state's ban on assault weapons, he has opposed strict gun controls. His advisers hint he wants to restore a limit on state spending that was removed in 1990...CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
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