Put Past to Rest, Hatch Says of Arnold

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Orrin Hatch says Arnold Schwarzenegger should not be judged on past improper advances towards women but as the devoted husband he is today, adding that the foreign-born GOP candidate for California governor also should have the opportunity to run for president under a constitutional amendment Hatch is pushing.

"We have to look at people who they are today, not what they may have done wrong in the past," Hatch told the National Press Club Friday. "There isn't a person in this room or anywhere else in the world who is perfect, who has lived perfectly."

The movie-star body builder stumped for Hatch's 1994 re-election campaign when he joined the Utah Republican at an awards ceremony at a Salt Lake City fitness equipment factory and taunted "hasta la vista, baby" to Hatch's Democratic challenger, Pat Shea. Shea said Schwarzenegger's appearance was offensive because of his movies' "terrible treatment of women" and found it "ironic that Hatch, who promotes himself as a true feminist, would bring one of the leading media promoters of misogyny to Utah."

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Hatch has introduced a resolution to amend the Constitution's ban on non-American-born presidents by allowing people who have been U.S. citizens for at least 20 years to be elected to the White House. While the measure was not introduced with Schwarzenegger in mind, Hatch said the Austrian-born superstar would be a perfect example of why the constitutional amendment is needed.

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[Lindacooks]

1. Excuse me???????????

What a fucking hypocrite. This from the creep who constantly whined about President Clinton's past. Every day I hate Repukes more.

[warrior1]

2. Sign me up for a big fat

hell no!!!!!!!

[Born Free]

6. makes me sick

"What a fucking hypocrite"

It's unbelievable how these guys change their tunes....they have no morals at all. I work with right wingers at work, they are the same way, they denouce it until it is one of their own, then it's time to move on

[LibDemAlways]

29. Isn't that the truth.

A braindead freeper moron where I work cooked up the excuse that it's ok for Arnold to grope women because (and I'm quoting verbatim) "He's European. That's the way they are over there."

[lebkuchen]

31. Sexual battery is not a way of life in Europe!

Spill wine, coffee, or mezzo on somebody in Europe, even by accident, and you can plan on handing over cash on the spot. Europeans, Germans in particular, carry insurance to cover these kinds of accidents.

Assault someone, and you'll have the police on your ass, rapidly.

But let's get back to the real question: Is sexual assault the accepted way of life in the USA? If not, then why would any American excuse the behavior in others, no matter where they came from, let alone vote for such a person for political office?

[Rose Siding]

11. An actual reporter might have asked

about that discrepency in his views.

[nini]

21. the year 2000 isn't that far in the PAST

seems alot of people thing everything he has done was way back in the 70s.. I've heard of accusations as recent as 2000.

why is this ok? He was married and a father in 2000.

[Skittles]

3. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

Understand, Orrin, you f***ing little creep????

[jbfam4]

4. "hasta la vista, Arnold"

If the LA times printed lies about Arnold as Hatch thinks, then why did Arnold apologize?

[Old and In the Way]

5. The Party of Principles

has been reduced to hoping a sexual predator with Nazi tendencie will save them with his pretty face and movie star appeal. Hatch is truly pathetic....I hope people realize soon that the Republicans have finally been outed as the morally bankrupt party with no interests other than the financial well-being of the criminals who run their shakedown operation.

[Catherine Vincent]

23. Uh, excuse me but..

Arnie doesn't have a pretty face. I don't think he's good looking at all but he's ok as long as he doesn't smile.

And you're right, Hatch is pathetic. That freaking hypocrite!

[salin]

7. Orin... did you say that about Clinton?

Didn't think so.

[jmcgowanjm]

8. ignorant hypocrite

How can you forgive a past that
hasn't been revealed?

How about a poll on % of CA
that knows Schwarzenegger:

friend of family Kurt Waldheim
"I love him."
FoFJorge Haider-Fascist Austria
"a very charismatic leader."
Father was a Brownshirt of Third Reich


Did OPRAH hear Arnold's Toast to Waldheim at their Wedding?
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/09/17_arnold.html

Is this the Best leader for CA?

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. For someone who is so holier than thou

he sure likes to defend repug womanizers.

[Snellius]

10. Spoken like a real Mormon, Orrin

How would you like some dickhead to ask your daughter "Have you ever had a man's tongue up your ass?" I hope there's a special circle in hell for hypocrits.

[lebkuchen]

33. Considering LDS's polygamist roots, ever-present in Utah,

"Have you ever had a man's tongue up your ass?" is not necessarily unacceptable behavior in Mormon culture, explaining why Hatch is not repulsed by any of Arnold's reported behavior.

Hatch wants us to judge Arnie "as the devoted husband he is today," literally meaning "today," three days before the election (he probably groped somebody yesterday).

I'd bet the house that the Groper has had numerous adulterous affairs, some probably still going on, because, hey, in weight-lifting culture, it's considered a dead bore to be stuck sleeping with just the wife. Will Orrin be so forgiving once that information is leaked? Sure, he will.

Personally, I'm more interested in seeing how many more "Arnie outings" Maria can tolerate before dumping this schmuck (and I don't mean "jewel").

[jmcgowanjm]

12. Oh, and forget that $9B refund from Enron if it's Guv Ahnold

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=283&row=0

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/081903G.shtml

[DrBB]

13. Yes, it has been almost a year

...since the last time he was caught groping anyone and it's well known he now has the probably relatively under control.

[Paladin]

14. Yeah, Right

Put the past to rest, kinda like the Repukes did with Clinton's college-era "I loathe the military" quote? Unbelievable.

These right-wingers who are supporting Ahnold and whimpering about Rush's situation better not try to lay any family values lectures on me in the future.....

[tsipple]

15. Who said anything about "past" behavior?

Arnold still hasn't modified his behavior, if his recent movie promotion tour is any indication.

[damnraddem]

18. Whap! 'Hey you hit me!' "That's now the past -- put it to rest."

Whap! 'Hey you hit me!' "That's now the past -- put it to rest."

Whap! 'Hey you hit me!' "That's now the past -- put it to rest."

Continue exercise until adequately aware of the problem.

[MaineDem]

16. What if it had been your daughter, Orrin?

I'm sorry if I offend any of you guys out there but I get so steamed when men pooh pooh these types of actions against women. A little slap on the hand - or on the back - and the whole incident disappears. Kind of a wink wink nudge nudge thing.

And changing the constitution so Ahhhnie can run for President? Gimme a break. But then again, that means Jennifer Granholm and Teresa Heinz Kerry also become eligible. I can't see this happening any time soon.

[damnraddem]

17. I doubt that Hatch is willing to put the past to rest with respect to ...

Clinton, even though Clinton is no longer in office. Yet Arnold is not even in office (yet, I'm afraid), but still a 'candidate.' This is precisely the most-important time to not put the past to rest, rather to ensure that the past gets a full and effective course of exercise. Arnold's past can always rest later, when it is not critical that it stay awake.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. May I remind you all

that the Whitewater non-scandal took place before Clinton was in office, and that the Repiggies still hired a special prosecutor, who, when he couldn't make criminal charges stick, went on a fishing expedition and found Clinton's statement under oath during the Paula Jones trial.

And Orrin was cheering Ken Starr on all the way.

[truthisfreedom]

19. arnold a PERFECT EXAMPLE of why the CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE CHANGED?

senility creeps into orrin hatch's tiny little mind...

[IndianaGreen]

24. Arnold is a bad. bad example, but the Constitution should be changed

and brought in line with constitutional requirements in industrialized countries were no such bar exists.

The reason that provision was in the Constitution was because the Framers feared that an English-born American would want to bring the US back under British rule.

[MGKrebs]

22. I'm speechless.

Unbelievable.

[dfong63]

25. so did Hatch plead for Karla Faye Tucker's life?

[Bandit]

26. Here is what he had to say in 1998

http://www.legendinc.com/Pages/ArchivesCentral/COTDArchives/1998/122898.html

"I don't think any body would deny the statement that we probably don't have a two-thirds vote to convict the President," said Mr. Orin Hatch, speaking on the CBS News program, "Face The Nation." "Then it seems to me," he went on, "we're going to have to do what is the next best thing, and that is point out to the American people how really bad his actions were."

Notice he said "were" not are so the hypocrite is speaking of past issues which were all proven false anyway.

[Aidoneus]

27. fucking hypocrite

(short and to the point)

:eyes:

[lebkuchen]

28. Ya gotta love how these Morman idiots excuse crimes against women

One doesn't need to ask how many women are General Authorities. Heck, it's only been a few years since blacks were allowed into the LDS church. Small wonder Hatch would vote for a pervert, mysogynist, pro-choice buffoon just to keep a Demo from being elected. That's just the way Mormons are.

LDS, probably one of the most ignorant churches on the planet.

[oxycontinrush]

30. AGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

I HATE HYPOCRITS! :puke:

[Zhade]

32. He WOULD say that...

No offense to current Mormons, if there are any here (I'm ex-Mormon), but this isn't really a surprise, when you consider the fact that Mormon churches in Nazi Germany hung swastikas in the church itself...

[gate of the sun]

34. bizarre

talk about the odd couple. I would like to say I really don't like orin hatch.........

[roguevalley]

35. Voters of Utah,

I DEMAND you do something about this man!

:-D

Seriously. Isn't there someone else you can
vote for?