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Arnie for governor
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has confirmed he is going to stand as a republican candidate for the position of governor of California. It'll be interesting to see where this leads. In the film Demolition Man (set in the future), there was mention of a "Schwarzenegger presidential library". Will he end up going all the way to the top?
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Off topic - does anyone know the name of that movie where Los Angeles (maybe all of California) is separated from the rest of the US and they put all the criminals in there and you can only get to it from a tunnel under the sea, it's set in the future.
On topic - They voted in Ronald Reagan as governor before and voted Clint Eastwood in as Mayor of Carmel in the 1980s so I'd say given that track record he probably will get it. Although President Bush doesn't want him to get it because it damages his chances of getting California's electoral college votes in the next Presidential election if the electorate can blame the Republicans for the current state of California - or to be more accurate if they can't take out their anger on the Democrats by giving Bush their electoral college votes because the anger would obviously have gone if they'd got rid of Governor Davis.
He was a millionaire at age 22 and he's done well ever since.
He seems to be a good family man and I've never heard of any real scandal about him.
Also we don't really have to worry about him taking bribes as he has enough money as it is and it could be said that the fact he can't run for president because he wasn't born in the USA will mean that he can fully focus on doing a good job in California rather then using it as a steppingstone towards the whitehouse.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116225
Escape from LA with Kurt Russell
Thanks DG - knew you'd know! :thumb: BTW you live near me I think. :wave:
he is known to have nazi beliefs is he not?
and having tons of money seems to lead to corruption not lessen it!
He wants to make a difference somewhere...movie star as well...wonder about T4 :chin:
the politics of personality is worrying enough without the politics of stardom and fame and popularity coming into it as well ...vry disturbing.
'smart arse I know it all, let's blind them with talking crap politician'
doesn't mean that we won't do a good job.
I'm supporting Arnie, go for it!
Follow up to Escape from New York. He played Snake Pliskin (or something), and it worries me that I remember that, because I also remember that they were crap films.
On topic: Surely the role of Govenor requires decision making. His advisors should be there to point him in the right direction. To be honest I don't care whether he gets the job or not. Until he runs for president it really doesn't affect me too much...
What are his politics anyhow?
In the end whoever gets the job isn't going to do all the Donkey work themselevs - they simply steer others in what they believe is the right direction.
Let him stay in Hollywood making his lame grade D action films, California is in enough of a mess without him aggravating the situation further.
Besides which, this whole recall is yet another Republican underhanded trick seeking to pin the blame for the budget crisis on Gray Davis when in reality the fault lies with the refusal of the Republican-majority state senate to ratify the budget on time.
Point being that if the Republicans are going to win the election anyway, better him than a god-bothering, ultra right-wing, gay bashing, single-mother hating, welfare-cutting Dubya clone.
Still, I'd much rather the Republicans lose the election altogether.
What would he use as his slogan for his re-election bid if he did win this election? "I'll be baaaack"?
...please! :rolleyes:
He's probably only running because he thought they were asking him to do a sequel to "Total Recall".
Still, with his father being a card-carrying Nazi and all that I kind of wonder what his political views really are.
:no: Dear me...
Would people be tempted to vote for him because of his 'celebrity' status?
What's the address for his campaign website?
The only thing I found was his own commercial homepage Schwarzenegger.com or somesuch rubbish.
No official campaign website? What is Arnie doing? He's the got the money for a full-blown campaign.
Even the Guardian has joined in, speaking of 'Total Recall' in California elections and Arnie becoming a 'Governator' and ‘terminating’ the Democrats’ hopes.
Others are of course asking "Will he be back?"
It is so absurd you have to laugh though. And make absurdly bad clichés, which are in endless supply.
Now all he needs to do is a find a woman named Sarah Connor to be his Campaign Manager. lol.
I'm just remembering all the films he's done, anyone remember Junior? hehe.
With films such as Other People's Money to his credit, Devito should be a shoe in for a Republican nomination himself.
it's like voting one of the spice girls or liam gallagher to be prime minister of england. get fucking real please ....