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Schwarzenegger the Big
Loser
Few people seem to have noticed Arnold
Schwarzenegger's resounding defeat in the November election this year (2004).
Schwarzenegger wasn't on the ballot, true, but he spent considerable time
building a power base to serve him when he does run, and he lost -- big!
California Republican election
pamphlets had Schwarzenegger's 8" X 10" mug plastered on the front and the real
candidates were down in the corner, at about passport photo size.
Schwarzenegger strongly backed at least six Republican legislative candidates
and fell flat -- not one legislative seat changed hands in Sacramento where
Democrats hold no less than a 60-40 edge.
This all happened when Democrats were
out of favor, still reeling from their disaster -- the Gray Davis recall
election. On top of a mood that had Democrat Davis's worst sins as
listening to too many big spending Democrats in the legislature, there was the
Democratic secretary of state's campaign finance scandal, which incidentally had
been front page headlines in the liberal San Francisco Chronicle for some time
and still is. Republicans should have made big gains. Instead, with
dynamic Republican superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger at the helm, they had about
their worst year ever, worse even than two years earlier when Republicans for
the first time in recent memory lost every state race -- but by closer margins
than this year.
One might ask, then, what
Schwarzenegger was thinking when he recently called Democratic legislators a
bunch of "losers." What was he doing? He was making the
most of a bad situation, shifting the loss over to the actual winners and
identifying himself with George Bush's big national win in hope that nobody
would notice. They didn't, but I did.
I would chance a bet that
Schwarzenegger is the Republican version of Bill Clinton. He will ruin the
party if Republicans don't have the good sense to throw him out in the next (and
first) Republican primary. They might, and it is crucial that they do.
--States' Liberty Party, Dec 23, 2004
Anna Richardson told a reporter,
according to the Enquirer, that she was told her
career would be threatened if she talked about the Terminator's advances; "The
implication was, if this story hits the papers I'd be in a lot of trouble, and I
was to keep my mouth shut if I wanted to stay in this business."
Gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger took a
page from the Clinton play-book when he gave his apology for sexually harassing
women.
SCHWARZENEGGER'S APOLOGY GIVEN FOR "DAMAGE CONTROL"
"That's the way do you do it, if it's true, you apologize," former Los
Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, a close Schwarzenegger adviser, told Reuters.
"What you do is you do your damage control."
But the actor avoided details. "If you go into detail, you just get story
after story after story," Riordan said. --From Reuters, Oct 9, 2003
Old Recall News and
Articles...
"Those people that I have offended," [Schwarzenegger]
intoned, "I want to say to them I am deeply sorry about that and I apologize,
because that's not what I'm trying to do." Yet in the next breath he called the
Los Angeles Times report "trash politics." What a guy. A real champion "for the
women."
By Randall Terry
"I am not concerned about what he does that is
consensual," said Karen Pomer, the founder of the Rainbow Sisters Project, a
group of rape victims. "But women who do not want to be touched who he touches
-- the reports of him harassing women -- they are of great concern.
If the slew of recently
surfaced quotes and anecdotes involving the Republican candidate's views on sex
and women are true -- if only half of them are true -- the guy has a Neanderthal
streak anyone should find offensive.
But the TRUTH is,
Democratic Party official Robert Melsh deliberately misled the public in an
effort to discredit those who have worked so hard on the recall, replacing them
with "extremists" like BlessedCause.
Return Washington to control by
the States
In the original design
by the Framers of the U.S. Constitution, there was an effective check on
Congress through the state legislatures' power to appoint (and remove) U.S.
Senators. The 17th Amendment eliminated the checks and blances
available to the states over federal power or over Congress itself in any area.
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photo: ABC Town Hall, Republican
Senator Rico Oller greeting recall supporters
ABC news Town Hall meeting on May
21, 2003. Recall Gray Davis demonstrators.
The May 21 Town Hall recall protest brought out a
wildly enthusiastic but less than expected crowd. Passersby commonly
drove by honking in support, contrasting the small protesting crowd against
their clearly popular message. When the debate ended, Republican
Senator Rico Oller, who opposed Gray Davis in the televised debate, crossed
the street to shake hands with the recall organizers, telling them "you're on
the right side".
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