http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-forbes3oct03,1,4508559.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinionsHe's the Poster Boy of Trash Politics
By K.B. Forbes
K.B. Forbes, a GOP strategist, was communications director for Bill Simon's most recent gubernatorial campaign.
October 3, 2003
Arnold Schwarzenegger has become the poster child for the newest form of trash politics: a political system so corrupt and undemocratic that a compulsive sexual deviant was anointed the de facto nominee by California GOP bosses in a smoke-free backroom.
How much did Schwarzenegger's campaign team know about his egregious sexual behavior? Did they intentionally attempt to conceal this pattern of sexual harassment from voters? Did leaders of the California Republican Party look the other way in their desperation to win back the governorship?
In an era in which a candidate's first order of business is to hire an opposition research specialist to investigate his own past, it's hard to imagine that this was overlooked.
What Schwarzenegger's boosters in the GOP establishment fail to understand is that this is not about an old extramarital affair or someone's sex life from years past. This is worse. This is the story of a guy who rode the elevator, groping a woman on the way up, and who is now about to get off on the top floor: the governor's office.
Simply put, Schwarzenegger is unfit to be governor.
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