Hasta La Vista, California

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Morford's take on the recall:

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And Schwarzenegger's bouncing around like a Hummer on meth, inflicting that weird maniacal grin and massive blocklike head all over the unsuspecting media, as pretty much the entire population of even slightly aware and intelligent people in California and in fact all over the nation go, oh holy Christ, please dear God no.

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But don't we all just love the idea of bringing in someone who's "not a politician"? Someone who's not part of the "corrupt" system and who can therefore promise a whole different set of values and really shake things up? Ooh, he's a big, famous actor! Ooh, he's not a part of the normal Washington scum pond! He's merely a part of the normal Hollywood scum pond! That's much better!

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Look. Let us be blatantly clear. The very last thing a massive and resource-rich state with a budget bigger than that of most European countries needs is a ego-thick GOP cyborg with no political experience who gets his policy ideology from a sulky former governor and Republican shark, and who owns a fleet of Hummers and hasn't bought his own shoes in 20 years and whose glutes are far, far larger than his brain.

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Keep the bums in place. They're the best we've got. Because otherwise, we are facing something perhaps Mary Carey, the porn-star candidate, knows best of all: If Arnie gets in, we are about to get thoroughly, royally screwed.

Read the whole, excellent piece here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/10/03/notes100303.DTL

[bearfartinthewoods]

1. how long has it been since there has been a repub gov? eom

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. 5 years..it was Pete deficit deregulation Wilson

[shanti]

5. not long enough!!!!

before gray there was wilson, before him deukmejian...is that enough for you?

[MikeH]

2. I Agree

As a Californian, I just can't believe my fellow Californians are going to be taken in and let this guy who is a complete joke, and an insult to the intelligence of anybody with half a brain, become governor, just out of spite toward Davis and the current "bums" in office.

[Clete]

3. A very good assessment of why Arnold cannot be allowed

to be Governor, even if he should win with less that 50% of the vote. (Who dreamed up this law?) California cannot be put back in the hands of former Governor Pete Wilson's staffers who are backing Arnold. It was them that started the mess that Gray Davis inherited and which Issa blamed on Davis to start the recall. I repeat Arnold cannot allowed to be Governor even if we have to recall him the moment he is sworn into office.

[chiburb]

6. Is that an option?

"...even if we have to recall him the moment he is sworn into office."

I mean legally? If so, have the plans already been drawn up to do just that? Seems like the sensible thing to be planning (just in case).