Schwarzenegger wins dream ticket for re-election (Spielberg defects)

[T_i_B]

I'll let you lot pick apart this article if you wish to.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1838818,00.html

Arnie, it seems, has friends in high places. Some leading Hollywood liberals - the mythic entity said to prowl the hills of Los Angeles dispensing money and influence - are siding with the Republican governor.

While Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg have pledged their support for Mr Schwarzenegger in his bid to be re-elected in November, Democrats are hoping that as long as they can count on Barbra Streisand and Warren Beatty, all may not be lost.

Mr Schwarzenegger has always promised to do away with the partisanship of modern politics. The latest defections from the Democrats suggest he may be succeeding with those of director Spielberg and his DreamWorks studio co-founder, Katzenberg, a significant blow to challenger, Phil Angelides.
The two have long been among the most important, high-profile and generous supporters of Democrat candidates and causes in California and across the US. But in 2004, Spielberg showed he was seduced by Mr Schwarzenegger, donating $100,000 (£52,000) to this political committee. "It starts with a personal relationship. They are friends," a DreamWorks spokesman told the Los Angeles Times.

For Mr Schwarzenegger to win, it is vital he reaches out to Democrats - registered Republicans represent just 34% of the state's electorate. This has seen Mr Schwarzenegger giving high-priority to environmental and education policies. Last week he captured the support of another American liberal icon, Tony Blair, who appeared with him to launch a joint initiative to reduce greenhouse emissions. In return, Mr Schwarzenegger offered Mr Blair a role in the next Terminator movie.

[ElboRuum]

1. If California Dems fall for this...

...they deserve the Governator.

[Der Blaue Engel]

3. Just like the US deserves George Bush?

I'm really sick of people telling me I deserve either of these pieces of shit. Wake up and smell the election fraud.

[ElboRuum]

9. Thanks, I've had my morning coffee.

Election fraud doesn't explain everything. Sure, one could make the argument that Dem wins could have occurred were it not for the obvious fraud perpetrated, but such fraud would not have had the desired effect IF DEMS VOTED DEM. Why were the results so close in the first place to allow fraud to tip the scales so easily? Why are some Dems voting for 'the other guy'? STILL. After ALL of what's happened?

Democrats have NEVER been a solid voting bloc where Republicans have always been. We could use some of that blind loyalty occasionally. While I appreciate the thought that goes into a contrarian vote, we're losing elections as a result. I mean, we already know that if Hillary Clinton gets the presidential nod, a good amount of Democrats aren't voting for her, staying home instead. You can explain to them all you want that the Republican she faces will be twenty times more evil than she ever COULD be, but they won't see the point or care.

How else do you think that a "moderate Republican" such as Schwarzenegger could get elected in a state of whom only 34% of registered voters are Republican? Because Democrats are just as easily manipulated by the cult of personality as any Republican know-nothing.

[Der Blaue Engel]

12. My point is, that's a really unfair thing to say to those of us who have

to live here. You can believe whatever you like about the legitimacy of our elections, but smugly saying "you deserve him" is no better than what the rest of the world is probably thinking about the entire US.

[WI_DEM]

2. Arnie will win, unfortunately the dems did themselves in during the

primary and too many Californians are "star crazy" : Reagan, George Murphy and Arnie. They love has-beens. I say this as somebody who was born and raised in California.

[KansDem]

4. Hey, Arnold! Did'cha ever get that $9,000,000,000 Enron owes you?

Didn't think so...

People's Weekly World

[LaPera]

5. Arnold is a fucking republican, with the same ...

republican sick, greedy, imperialist ideology and agenda or he wouldn't be a fucking republican Arnold proved that right after being elected... and then got his ass handed to him in the initiative voting.........so now like Bush did twice he's trying the moderate liberal route again, (until after the election, then again his true republican colors will show)..because he makes a few democrat policy & maneuvers, ... that always fool the stupid moderates & gullible "democrats" into actually voting for a fucking republican...He'll never stray too far from the lies and greed of his republican party line and when push comes to shove...You'll see republican Arnold endosing fascist Bush on a national stage, with love in his eyes.

Oil companies have contributed $2.3 million to Arnold, more money than they have given to any other politician in the nation but the President. Yesterday the California Assembly Speaker and Attorney General announced legislation to rewrite gasoline price gouging laws for easier prosecutions. But on the campaign bus, Arnold said, "I cannot personally do anything about the gas prices." What will Arnold do with the Nuñez bill? Will the report of his California Energy Commission on high gas prices, due out next week, be another whitewash for the industry? Stay tuned.

The gov has also collected $216,400 from drug companies since April, including $49,600 on Monday, bringing his total take from the industry since taking office to over $1 million. What will Arnold 2.0 do with a pair of modest bills opposed by the drug industry, AB 2911 (Nuñez) and SB 1702 (Perata), which would establish a drug discount program for lower income Californians?

Then the insurers, who've already given Arnold $2.4 million, keep pouring in the cash. Last year Arnold vetoed bills opposed by insurers on the exact same day that they donated more than a $100K. This year will the Gov help insureds or insurers?

[VOX]

6. Agreed. And he'll continue fundraising for Republicans...

And trying to gerrymander districts, etc. (He did try once, but failed.)

[AtomicKitten]

7. I don't deserve Schwarzenegger.

eom

[fordnut]

8. i sure hope Arnie doesn't get back in

[AtomicKitten]

10. Angelides better kick it up a notch.

eom

[Der Blaue Engel]

11. Damn right, AtomicKitten

NONE of us do.