Arnie loses his hero status with voters after string of gaffes

Independent
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
21 April 2005


Most politicians would regard a 17-month honeymoon as an unimaginable gift from the heavens. But, in the case of Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose aura of invincibility has been part of his public image since he first ran for governor of California, the end of the honeymoon is not only proving a letdown. It is rapidly transforming him from public hero to public enemy and raising questions about whether he has a political future at all.

Having campaigned two years ago as "the people's governor", Mr Schwarzenegger now faces a barrage of opposition from those very same people who voted for him so enthusiastically - nurses, firefighters, teachers, parents, recent immigrants - almost all of whom he has managed to alienate through ill-chosen words or over-provocative policy prescriptions.

Yesterday, the governor's staff was furiously backtracking from a speech Mr Schwarzenegger gave to a newspaper association convention in San Francisco, in which he urged the federal government to "close the borders" with Mexico to put an end to illegal immigration.

Not only did that statement put him considerably to the right of President Bush, who has proved quite progressive when it comes to managing and protecting the immigrant labour force. It was also widely interpreted as pandering to an extreme, quasi-racist position entirely out of step with the Californian mainstream. The fact Mr Schwarzenegger is an immigrant did not help matters.

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TERMINATE HIM!! I still CANNOT BELIEVE the Californians got hornswaggled into that recall, and what we got out of it....ARNIE? It still seems like a bad dream.

Do I smell the smell of a cooked goose?

Well, maybe, but now is NOT the time to get complacent. The cooked goose still has lots of time to lie, cheat, and steal... and don't forget, we now have a republi-CON secretary of state, thank you very much.

arrogant actor?? He is an actor...an actor, people!! You didnt' vote for "the Terminator", you voted for an actor who knows nothing about politics! He is not going to ride in on a motorcycle and save the day...

I cannot wait to vote this guy out of office.

The soldier from the future to save humanity from the terminator.

:kick:

There's always some chance that an affable glad-hander can get something accomplished based on popularity alone. But this guy is a complete and total FAILURE! Zero, zip, nada. Hasta la don't-let-the-door-hit-your-ass, baby.

:D

actor? Am Oxcar-winning performance? Arnie's always been WWF quality.

If this position is because of Arnie actually representing the will of the people or if it's the republican policy of saying now that I have mine how do I keep everyone else from getting theirs. Wait a minute! I think I see the flaw in my logic. A Republican actually representing the will of the people. DUH! ROTFLMAO

"the will of the RICH people"

Someone needs to get der hook und yanken Der Terminator offen der stage

and just for the record, I didnt' vote for him.

I didn't vote for him either. Not only that I steadfastly and loudly REFUSED to sign the recall petitions when they were gathering signatures.

Actually I rarely sign petitions when acosted outside a grocery store or when bothered in my home by them. I need time to read the proposal and do some research.

From What I've read of your posts so far you seem like a nice person that cares. So I didn't think you would.

I think that is the nicest welcome I've had so far. :blush: Not that the other one weren't good. But this one is real nice. :)

Cheers! Glad you could join us in helping der schwarzenazi become der laughingstock. Good to have you here - we need you!

Looking forward to your posts.

Cheers -- :toast:

One of my friends from Cali showed up in KC at a gathering and slapped an Ah-nold sticker on me and I just about freaked! I can't remember my exact quote but it had the words Nazi,phony and lech in there somewhere. I am not like him, I am not a republican girly man!Squirm out squirminator!

before the next election.

People here need to wake up as to how we have been systematically, deliberately FUCKED, from the Bush/Enron Manufactured "Energy Crisis" on...

Is he anything more than a jumble of catch-phrases?
"Hasta la vista" dumbass!

...the effort to change the 20th Amendment (citizen requirements for President)will go away too? Time will tell; the neocons were hoping to get it done in time for 2008...

Like President Mightymouse, Arnold is merely attempting carry out a series of assignements designed to enrich his compaign-contributing backers. "People's governor"? Why, that's as much a crock as President Mightymouse's "progressiveness" on immigration!

:headbang:
rocknation

to ignorant Austrians like the Boobengroper.

Some people evidently thought Arnold had brains in addition to brawn, but as it turns out all he has is a lot of chutzpah.

Stick a fork in him, he's done.

so it was only a matter of time. The people who voted for him in CA are morons.