Arnie a Bad Omen for White House

[xray s]

There, there now...everybody read this. You will feel much better about our chances in 2004. (Although, if you live in California, you may not feel so good about the next few years with the Terminator at the helm.)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1008-06.htm

Published on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 by The Australian
Arnie a Bad Omen for White House
by Roy Eccleston


The actor's socially liberal views on gays and abortion may attract more Californians back to the Republican Party, which in recent years has assumed the conservative moral and religious attitudes of the American South. "But I don't think it tells us a hell of a lot about California in the presidential election," Washington Post political columnist David Broder says. "There the issues are more likely to be foreign policy, the economy and Bush's record in office -- and those issues haven't been debated in this campaign."

Norm Ornstein, a political analyst with the American Enterprise Institute, agrees. "The fundamental reality is that any idea this is going to give Bush a leg-up for 2004 is wrong," he says.

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Ornstein says Republicans are nervous about Schwarzenegger. "The first thing he says he'll do is repeal the car tax," the analyst says. "That raises the deficit from $US8billion to $US12 billion. But 80 per cent of the budget is off-limits. And he's put more off-limits by taking education out of the mix.

"That means he's going to have to cut $US12 billion from prisons and health care, or raise taxes. Either way he's going to alienate lots of voters. And I don't see it getting better in California in the course of the next year."

Zogby says Bush hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of winning California, even with Schwarzenegger. He sees a potential upside for the Democrats, who will try to energize their supporters with the claim California is yet another example of the Republicans usurping democracy.

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[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. True but the "pundits" who claim that Arnie won because.....

he was an outsider will smear the Democratic outsiders such as
Dean and Clark as "insiders" and therefore are no better than the establishment!!!

Remember This: TWEETY will be the worst offender of this as he has
"whored" himself to the right of Faux News.

[DrBB]

3. How can they smear Clark as an "insider"

...at the same time that they are "smearing" him (showing a remarkable concern for Democratic party purity) as someone who wasn't even a registered Dem until a week or so ago?

Not that that--or anything else--will stop them from smearing him--or anyone else--with anything they can make up and repeat often enough.

[diplomats]

2. Thanks for posting this, Xray

I was pretty sure Bush had zero chance in California in 2004, but it's nice to see Zogby and others confirming that.