I'LL BE BACK
Posted on 11/30/2010 8:06:05 AM PST by SmithL
Arnold Schwarzenegger dished out make-believe mayhem during his action movie hero days, but he must be a closet masochist.
Why else would he say, as he often does, that he'd love to remain governor of California? He's already one of the most unpopular governors in state history, and he's leaving behind an economy that's erased more than a million jobs and a state budget deficit that's worse than the one he inherited seven years ago.
A rational man would jet to his ski lodge in Sun Valley and return to Sacramento just in time to hand the mess to successor Jerry Brown.
Instead, Schwarzenegger is spending his last weeks in office in legacy mode, attempting – or so it would seem – to convince Californians that his roller coaster governorship has been a success, even though three-fourths of them consider it to be a failure.
"I'm going to run to the finish line," Schwarzenegger said Monday during a news conference on the steps of the state Capitol that was, if anything, a celebration of failure.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
His legacy is his broken promise to “blow up boxes in Sacramento”!
He has a legacy — FAILURE.
He’s going to run for President, now that Obama has set the precedent for skipping certain BIRTH requirements.
His legacy lies in Hollywood, not politics. Many of his action movies were great fun!
Stay out of Arizona or get deported back to Austria.
Well, California has had some terrible governors. But Arnold is in the running to be Worst Governor Ever.
He took a window of opportunity to straighten things out, one of the few times that the voters have voted for fiscal restraint and sanity in that state. And he blew it to hell.
So if the whole house of cards collapses under Governor Moonbeam, it will be largely Arnold’s fault.
His legacy is that he’s very comfortable being a Kennedy.
The Legacy of Governor Shriver will always be how he single handedly DESTROYED A STATE using the Religion of Global Warming. See AB32
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