Salon: The Teflon Groper

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Arnold's army says his sordid sexual history doesn't matter -- and GOP honchos just want to close their eyes and win.

They come one after another, relentlessly, and -- like some crazy California combination of the names on the wall at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and those chocolates that kept coming down the conveyor belt too quickly for Lucy to handle -- it is the sheer number of them that ultimately becomes overwhelming.

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Margaret O'Hair has heard all about these allegations, and she knows what she thinks. "You know what?" she said Sunday in Sacramento. "Nobody's perfect."

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"I'm supporting Arnold Schwarzenegger because he is representative of a whole wave of feeling that is going across California right now," said O'Hair, a schoolteacher from the Sacramento suburb of Roseville who hauled her own kids downtown to see Schwarzenegger at the Capitol. O'Hair said she is sticking with Schwarzenegger despite the allegations against him because she believes he is a "changed man." Given that the L.A. Times has reported allegations of abuse as recent as 2000, it is not clear when, exactly, that the actor might have changed. For O'Hair, it doesn't matter.

"He said he's sorry, and now it's a new day," she said Sunday. How does she know that he has changed? "I don't know, I'm not him. I just know that who he is now is who I'm voting for." How does she know who he is now?" "You have to have faith," she says.

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Stanley, a somewhat older Schwarzenegger fan from Sacramento, turned out to see her candidate at the march on the Capitol Sunday. Asked about her support for Schwarzenegger, she said: "I like what he stands for. I think he's going to get the power back to the people; maybe we'll get to do what we want with our money instead of the government making all of the decisions for us." Pressed for a specific Schwarzenegger policy position she likes, she said: "It would be better if you talked to my husband."

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[Benhurst]

1. "...O'Hair, a schoolteacher from the Sacramento ..." It's

depressing that such a person should be "teaching" children!

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Depressing no it's truly pathetic that this is what it has come to

Giving control of the worlds 6th largest economy to a arrogant

self important puffed up second rate movie star. Who spends his free time molesting women & espousing his adoration of Hitler.

What the fuck is going on in America. This is so fucked up it's
beyond belief.

[JohnyCanuck]

9. I blame much of it on too much TV

I guess that's an overgeneralization, but when you see the number of people in California who appear to make their voting decisions based on Gropenator's he-man tough talk and bluster you can't tell me there's no connection between that and the popularity of a show like Vince McMahon's WWE with the phony, in your face, name calling and the "I'm gonna kick your ass" threats along with the over-the-top infliction of violence by the participants on each other.

The freepers are having trouble distinguishing reality from life in TV land. I'm sure this also influenced the freeper types that the way to deal with any country perceived to be a threat to the US (e.g. Iraq) is to use the same "kick ass" methods as Stone Cold Steve Austin uses to resove a dispute with the Undertaker.

[priller]

7. I would like to know what kind of school she teaches at

She's obviously a fundie, with all her "you have to have faith" nonsense. Look, I have nothing against religious faith, but when "faith" is used as an excuse for ignorance, then I have a problem.

[The Zanti Regent]

3. If he wins, IMPEACH ARNOLD RIGHT AWAY

The Nazis have to be stopped!

[NastyRiffraff]

4. Recall Arnold!

Some Dems are already planning a "recall Arnold" campaign if he wins. Hey, fair is fair :evilgrin:

[smallprint]

5. This is disturbing.

These crazy women are a microcosm of the country as a whole: battered, abused, in denial, and going back to the batterer for more abuse...

[Nay]

6. I throw up my hands in despair. Who ARE these morons???

[priller]

8. Makes you wonder

what kind of hope there is for Democracy when so many people can be so easily fooled.