Republicans Blame Schwarzenegger (hahahahaha)

LOS ANGELES - The across-the-board collapse of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ballot propositions came down to this: They were ideas with narrow appeal, further damaged by a flat-footed campaign and an unpopular messenger, the governor himself.


And that's just what his fellow Republicans said.

California's celebrity governor was elected in 2003 as a centrist Republican — an essential pedigree in a state that votes reliably Democratic. But by the end of his initiative campaign Tuesday, Schwarzenegger had alienated Democrats and independents and allowed his opponents to paint him as an extremist.

"What was defeated yesterday was a caricature of Arnold Schwarzenegger, not the reality of Arnold Schwarzenegger," Republican consultant Kevin Spillane said Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051110/ap_on_re_us/who_s_to_blame;_ylt=AnJNEv9OpEOqGNIuNPfwnR3tPRYi;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

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there is nothing other than "a caricature of Arnold Schwarzenegger". The caricature IS the reality. There is no "there" there...

caricature?

that the son of an Austrian Nazi might in fact lean just a little to the right. But hey, that's just me.

the shovelnator girlyman, alright..right back in his face!

Read David Podvin's article on this..it's dead on!

"FEEL THE BURN GIRLYMAN"..

"In the aftermath of the California special election the headlines read, “SCHWARZENEGGER ROUTED”, a most welcome bulletin that for inspirational value ranks a close second to “COULTER DROWNS IN SEWAGE TREATMENT MISHAP”. Yet the most relevant factor is not that He Who Gropes has just been groped. It is the way in which he has been groped that serves as a template for liberal success.

Soon after taking office, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared war on the “special interests”, which from his perspective are the employees who serve the taxpayers. Arnold sued to block changes in the state's nurse-patient staffing ratios that would have improved medical care, and then taunted the nurses that he was “kicking their butts”. The governor also targeted educators and public safety personnel for abuse while promoting ballot initiatives designed to skew political power even further towards his corporate benefactors."


More David Podvin..
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/podvin/more/051109_FeelTheBurn.htm

I feel sorry for the sewage. Were they able to clean it afterward? :cry:

That's too funny.

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elected in the first place.

arnold is really a social liberal adapting the republican chamber of commerce agenda because he is a business man first and foremost. As a repub he is obligated to shove the right wing christofascist repub agenda as far as he can shove it.

well it is tough be a social liberal and rob and cheat people politically and reconcile the differences.

arnold comes from the movie set where he is the king of the world, gets what he wants, treats people anyway he chooses. the real world is not a set, sexual abuse does not get overlooked, you cannot call people derogatory names and expect only butt kissing in response.

he is like a spoiled child who gets what he wants and tries shifting tactics to get it.

well that is over now.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

Conan fought all his life until he became king, only to sit on his throne bored and confused, he only knew how to fight and kill people, skilled in death and mayhem and the glory of spilling blood, not how to govern or help people. The only solution is to start a war with a neighboring king who is equally bored.

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and his soldiers have gone back to serve Lucifer.

Make me nervous.

and Firefighters..arnie isn't going to anywhere beyond a couple of years as a sick duck..

"The Woman Behind Arnold's Defeat"

Snip~

"Their activism started last November, after Schwarzenegger suspended key portions of the state's nurse-to-patient ratio to help hospital chains. "That really angered us," says DeMoro. But the nurses protested tentatively, almost timidly, until one pivotal day last December.

While the governor addressed a state convention of 10,000 women, a few nurses unfurled a protest banner that read "Hands Off Patient Ratios." Schwarzenegger grinned for the TV cameras, then said: "Pay no attention...to the special interests. I am always kicking their butts."

DeMoro was outraged. "For the Governor to denigrate nurses -- a historically female profession -- while speaking to an audience of women is an affront to women everywhere," she told CNN. Because Schwarzenegger had shut them out of the health-care debate, the nurses decided to take their case to the streets."


Much more fascinating history..
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=2b2fda7241241ba88cab43b821c1e251

Take away the image and there is ........

"What was defeated yesterday was a caricature of Arnold Schwarzenegger, not the reality of Arnold Schwarzenegger,"

and the RW sharks are swimming, looking for someone to blame....:)

for a job as a consultant.

during his speech after the losses was his line about "reaching out" to the democrats. Bite me asshole! I still remember after he won election, a reporter asked him about working with the democrats and his response was, "why would I work with losers?" Yeah, well, that's how we feel now. Stupid Maria.....what is she thinking?!

I read once that he had a problem with her weight and she was expected to be thin and she almost went skeletal at one point. Also, it was widely reported that if his kids didn't put their things away, he tossed them in the garbage. No ifs or buts. I don't know about you, but I would call that an abusive personality.

but am not sure of its accuracy. Rumors about how he monitors her weight, her hair (he doesn't like women with short hair), clothes, etc. The thing about the kids, I believe, she mentioned during an interview with Oprah.

You mean they aren't going to amend the Constitution of the United States *again* so the Boobengrabber can "grab" up the Presidency in 2008? I am SO SHOCKED!!!! :sarcasm:

BWAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D :D :D :D

:kick:

I thought the repukes were the party of personal responsibility?


hahahhahahahahah

Sadly, I believe the slack-jawed yokels may re-elect Ahnold because it's "cool to have the Terminator as Governor", but his chances are definitely greatly reduced.

I hope whoever the Dems nominate has a bit of personality.

is the personality that the Dems are putting up I know that Steve Wesley has thrown his name into the ring but the money he has raised is a check he wrote himself. The $10m Angelides has, has been through good old fashion speaking, meet & greet the folks. He is currently the state Treasurer and is one of the people arnie has dismissed with some of his warming names.

walks like a caricature, talks like a caricature and acts like a caricature. He drives around this state in a Hummer, calling people names, stinking up the place with his damn cigars and yells "It's judgment day" the night before the election.

He expects people to take him seriously???

Mr. Spillane was probably thrilled that this caricature became governor. Now he's blaming the people for voting based on what we've seen since he's been in office.

Mz Pip
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How can anyone take this idiot seriously? He grabs women's breasts and tells women that he will "kick their butts". Fuck you you ugly piece o'crap!

Keep driving your HumVee - it is all you apparently "have" you "have more"!

He was used by the Republicans and helped the Democrats!!!

His political career is very short!!!

steroid boy got the most votes out of a field of 10,000; received fewer votes than Grey Davis did 10 months earlier, in the real election. He was not elected!

hey, kevie take your 'reality' of steroid boy and put it where the sun don't shine!

I just don't get it. They are so use to playing a character in movies that they thing that being governor is just another role play call. Fuck that. California's need to start voting in people who live in the real world. Not fantasy land.

caricature.

Anyone who has closely followed his career since his body building start knows that Arnold is an intelligent and canny businessman.

But being a successfull business man does NOT guarantee a success as a politician. You need finesse at cooperation and consensus-building, whereas business men are used to barking orders and controlling their operations.

Personally, I'm delighted to see him fail because the more authority he could gain the more dangerous he was. Unlike *, who is a fool, Arnold has the potential to become a more sinister figure, like Cheney.

when Arnie was running for governor Rob Lowe was on whatever media would take him gushing about what a great guy Arnie is..."a wonderful family man!".
Thanks, Rob.
Your wonderful guy is a horrible governor.
With Rob (and, I guess, too many Californians) it wasn't about Arnie's policies or ability to govern.
It was all about his image.
How's that image working now?

Probably getting ready to hire more signature takers to stand in front of Safeway now. Brainstorming on talking points. They're not done yet.

the asshole real person. He's a pig.

He got beaten by taking advice from the far right of the Republican party and now those same people who gave him bad advice are kicking him while he is down.

The far right wants to see Arnold fail and he still listens to them.

nt

Are we, Macho Man?



Maybe you should go on Maria's "skeleton" diet.

were delusional to think that he got elected cause he was liked or that reTHUG ideas were acceptable here. Arnie got elected for one reason and one reason only, cause Gray Davis was a sleaze-ball and disliked by the majority.

...Schwarzenegger...alienated Democrats and independents and allowed his opponents to paint him as an extremist.
The Republicans ASSIGNED Schwarzenegger to alienate Democrats and independents and paint THEM as extremists! He thought he could simply duplicate Bush's policies and tactics, but he didn't take into consideration that a) the public is used to them and b) that hurricane Katrina gave a glaring example of how poorly a government small enough to drown in a bathbub works.

Schwarzenegger sucessfully completed the task of torpedoing the Enron settlement. But with his re-destricting initative getting voted down, he has "outlived his usefulness" to the GOP, and they're washing their hands of him. The irony is that if Arnold was promised the 2008 VP slot as a reward, they probably would have changed their minds anyway.

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