(Schwarzenegger) Candidate says he'd govern as an independent

[arcos]

Schwarzenegger rakes in money
ACTOR'S PROMISE: Candidate says he'd govern as an independent

GOP gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger told a conservative talk radio host Monday that he would be "going to Sacramento as an independent," a statement certain to enrage Republican loyalists who have been reluctant to endorse a moderate.

Schwarzenegger, a registered Republican, made the comment to host Hugh Hewitt in one of two back-to-back interviews on conservative talk radio shows.

<snip>

When Schwarzenegger was asked if he would campaign for Republican President George W. Bush and against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, he gave half an answer.

As far as Bush goes, "I am all the way with him and always will be supportive of him," the actor said, but he wouldn't talk about Boxer's campaign.

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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/26/ARNOLD.TMP

[Oracle]

1. Then why's he running as a fucking republican?

He would fall right in line with the republicans...hes a pig and a liar!

[arcos]

2. I agree... and he supports Bush...

he is bad independent anyway!

[benfranklin1776]

3. Yep he has both of those requisite Rethug qualifications in abundance.

But no others to justify being elected governor. His lone drawing card is "the cult of personality." Gotta love his "well thought out" answers to the questions, "Bustamante is Davis with a receding hairline," not TOO wholly shallow are you AHNALD? and in a prior dissembling memorably said "people don't want to hear about figures" when avoding the question of how he would address the state budget shortfall.

[Democat]

4. He meant to say "puppet".

"All the way supportive of Bush" sounds real independent.

[magnolia]

16. Hey...it's good...

...if he says he'll govern like an independent, he'll lose the far right. It's all or nothing with them. You are either with them, or against them...and nothing in between. They are already wary of him because they think he might sneak in some of those nasty social programs that the Kennedy's love so much.

[SideshowScott]

5. I Hope to GOD CA does not buy that! When Rove needs a favor....

You know that Arnie will comply..Anie it trying too hard to be on the political spectrum fence but when Bush and Rove need something i really really doubt that Arnie will say no

[cthrumatrix]

6. He thinks this is a movie.... take 2 Arnie.."say you're an independant"

what a joke

[w4rma]

7. Soon it will be time to put a fork in him, I think (n/t)

[onehandle]

8. "I vill say ennything to be Governator!"

"Pleeze help mah girly-man self. I don't want to be a looooser-man!"

[kentuck]

9. He wants his cake and eat it too..

He knows he needs the independent vote but he wants to be a Republican but he's not getting the independent vote at the present time..

[kentuck]

10. He wants his cake and eat it too..

He knows he needs the independent vote but he wants to be a Republican but he's not getting the independent vote at the present time..

[truthisfreedom]

11. one word: flake

sad.

[Kolesar]

12. "A reformer without results"

Talk about selling California a pig in a poke. Who is Arnold? Who wants to take a chance and find out?

[robbedvoter]

13. Yeah...Independent...That's the ticket!

For all those buying the "moderate GOP" oxymoron, consider this: We have a GOP mayor in NYC (thank you Al Sharpton). Bloomberg used to be Democrat before the election and everyone kept telling me: "Be happy! He's practically a Democrat!" When the news that Bushco made EPA lie about the 9.11 air came, the "practically a democrat" came out to say that he dowsn't believe the news and he trusts the pResident.
And that's the reason they need a figurehead in Cali as well: to have the governor say: "Enron's good, Dick is God, vote for Whistle Ass. Entirely independent, of course!!!
P.S. In NYC, "practically a Dem" is working to get us "nonpartisan elections" (wherever Dems are a majority, non-partisan is the rage!)

[teryang]

14. What a crock!

He's a major participant in the biggest flim flam scam of all time. That makes him repuke to the bone.

[Wednesdays]

15. So, Nazis are considered "independent"

nowadays?

[Nancy Waterman]

17. The truth about Ahhhnold

This says it all.

[robbedvoter]

20. No fair! You made it look bigger!

Of course some would see it as just reparations for tarring him with "the daddy is a Nazi" brush. Poor maliged son of a Nazi! (and only Nazi sympatizer):
by John Harlow
http://www.codoh.com/newsdesk/961117.HTML

Role too far for Arnie, lost action hero

ONCE the biggest box office draw in the world, Arnold Schwarzenegger has
been frozen out by Hollywood moguls unnerved by his ambition to portray
a "nice Nazi" in a blockbuster war film.

Lord Attenborough is the latest film-maker to decline the Austrian-born
muscleman's offer to direct With Wings of Eagles, which was due to start
shooting in 10 weeks' time.

Other directors have privately admitted they are avoiding a film that
might offend the powerful Jewish lobby in Hollywood.

"Jews do not run Hollywood ñ they are too busy fighting each other for
that ñ but the one event guaranteed to unite them against you is
whitewashing the Nazis," said a veteran producer last week.

In the past, the actor has fiercely denounced Nazis who took part in
wartime atrocities, including his own father, a Nazi official who helped
round up Austrian Jews for deportation and execution.

In 1989, he successfully sued a British newspaper which had suggested he
was anti-semitic. He has raised millions of dollars for the Holocaust
memorial trust in Los Angeles and is a friend of Simon Wiesenthal, the
veteran Nazi-hunter.

The "nice Nazi" role may prove to be a character too far, however, for a
superstar whose most popular roles have been a barbarian, a secret agent
and a killer robot.

"Marlon Brando could play a sympathetic Nazi in The Young Lions in 1958
because Brando was widely known as a leftwinger: Schwarzenegger's
politics are a little more confusing," said a studio source.

When Schwarzenegger arrived in America in 1968 as a young body-builder,
he allied himself with the Republican cause. George Bush, who recruited
him for fund-raising drives, dubbed him "Conan the Republican". But he
maintained less respectable friendships back in Austria.

In 1986 he invited Kurt Waldheim to his wedding in Massachusetts.
Waldheim, the former United Nations secretary-general, was in the middle
of winning his election as president of Austria and "forgetting" his own
role in Austria's Nazi wartime record. A year later Waldheim was banned
from entering America.

Schwarzenegger has also been photographed with Jorg Haider, leader of
Austria's right-wing Freedom party who last year was filmed at a secret
reunion of the Waffen SS, the military arm of the Nazi SS, praising them
as "decent people".

Haider claimed not to know that the Waffen SS had been designated a
criminal organisation at the Nuremberg trials.

[newyawker99]

24. ROFLMAO!!!

Great pic! :D

[realFedUp]

18. David Dreier says he's running as a conservative Republican

I guess depending on where they happen to be interviewed,
they'll change his political leanings. I heard he was
saying to young Latino kids that he was Latino now...
(just kidding)

[symbolman]

19. So no one screams

about a dope smoking, woman groping, steroid sucking, raised by a Nazi, muscleheaded grade b idiot 'actor' being associated with the Republican party in any way at all?

Talk about lowering the bar..

Where are the Christians on THIS GUY? Oh, they are all singing Kumbaya around the Alabama State Capitol, I forgot..

Where are the Latinos? Oops, lost those to Bustamante, sorry Ahnold..

Can't wait to hear (and you know they will do it) Davis and/or Bustamente saying, "Hasta La Vista, Baby.." after the recall is thoroughly trounced..

[PROGRESSIVE1]

22. Hasta La Vista Arnie...

is what the Headlines will read on October 8th!!!!!!!!

:dem:

[rocktivity]

21. And what LIBERAL talk shows is Arnie scheduled to do?

rocknation

[GalleryGod]

23. Seig,Heil,AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhNold!

:puke: Son-of-a-friggin' NAZI!-And, a STORM Trooper,no less:mad:

[Nottingham]

25. He's a republican but is Pro Choice!

Thats got the Republicans going freakin wild!

He is hurtin the Republicans more!:bounce: