Latest Rumor: Arnold plans on becoming a Democrat by Nov.2004

[romantico]

A radio host this morning claims this is the talk of the town.Said this is why Maria & the Kennedy's supported him. From what I've heard & read, I DOUBT Arnold will betray his new masters who helped him win in the first place.Anyone hear this?Trying to figure out Who is saying it & where it all began.

[wndycty]

1. I don't think its far fetched. . .

. . .I think it would be funny as hell.

[shance]

37. Wow - this is a great Republican strategy by Schwartzenegger

Keep them in limbo. And if more news is discovered about the whole electronic voting problem, well, I just start a rumor that I MAY switch to the Democratic party.

WAKE UP PEOPLE - HE ISNT CHANGING ANYTHING.

[edzontar]

2. Unlikely....

They'd just recall him.

[Kahuna]

7. They need 25% of the record amount of voters who voted

Tuesday to recall Ah-nuld. He ain't going nowhere until the next election.

[Capn Sunshine]

20. That's hardly a daunting number

I've gotten more sigs than that before.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RecallArnold/

[mitchtv]

31. they need 12% kahuna

thats how they got Davis

[joefree1]

36. We need 90 days then

The honeymoom will be over. It's surprises me how many Dems are wringing their hands and saying Arnold is so popular and ain't going anywhere. Yeah and Bush is as popular as he was on the day after 9/11.


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[OneTwentyoNine]

46. Nope,try 12% 40% needed here in Kansas....n/t

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[wyldwolf]

3. It wouldn't surprise me...

The die-hard conservative only support him because of the (R) in front of his name.

He won't do anything for them on issues conservatives hate.

So this wouldn't surprise me, though I don't see it actually happening.

[pippin]

4. he can

go to hell. this democrat doesn't want his filthy presence in the party. :evilfrown:

[searchingforlight]

9. I was just going to send something similar. Thank you. We don't want him

n/t

[WindRavenX]

5. If he does, I'm not voting for him

There is a limit to my rank and file status, and Ahnold is one of them.
And what good will it do for him to switch for the election? :shrug:

[JackRiddler]

26. You're a Yankee fan in California?

Signed,

New Yorker

[bowens43]

6. What I would rather see

is arnold stay a republican but endorse the Democratic candidate for president.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. Richard Roirdan Endorsed Clinton

I think he's one of the good guys...

[Drifter]

8. He might as well ...

since by Nov. 2004, he will either have resigned or been recalled.

Cheers
Drifter

[AP]

11. If they're doing this, it makes me worry that they have som serious RW...

...plans for CA.

While they're ripping off CALPERS, and shifting the tax burden, and making life very easy for the huge media corporations which campaigned for Arnold, they'll have you thinking, hey, maybe he's really a Democratic.

[CMT]

12. I honestly don't believe this

He has been an outspoken Republican for years--even while married to Maria Shriver. I don't think this will happen. I'm not even sure I want that Groper in the Democratic party.

[Skittles]

13. I DON'T WANT HIM AS A DEMOCRAT

HE IS A F***ING DISGRACE

[Renew Deal]

33. I agree but...

It would be funny to watch all the freeper heads explode. I would take him just for that. :evilgrin:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

14. Arnie had a demochip implanted from the get go of his marraige to kennedy

Arnold is a democratic "strategery" ;-)...we have finnally learned how to play the rethuglican game. it will just take the repukes a tad longer than the average moron to figure it out
:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

yeah collie-4orn-knee-a

[dofus]

15. That's just plain silly.

He's been a Republican forever, openly, unabashedly, and cheerfully Republican.

[Woodstock]

41. Agree

Just a rumor.

[radwriter0555]

16. Then why is pete wilson running his entire show in Sacramento?

Pete is doing ALLLLL the hiring and firing for the transition team.

[caledesi]

17. OMG! I posted this SAME theory about 2 weeks ago. I thought

that Maria probably said to Arnold "Hey, you can run and I will support you, but later on you WILL switch to the Democratic Party." She knew all the scandals would come out, so why would she go along w/ this?

BTW, no one commented on my post (it was part of a thread) and my husband doesn't think it will happen/

[Zgrrl]

18. Nah...

Maria and her mom were supportive of his campaign, but I wouldn't say "the Kennedys" supported him. Uncle Teddy was silent, as were the rest of 'em. I agree with Romantico that Ahnuld probably would not betray his "new masters."

And, as most people have said on this thread...

We don't want him! The tent isn't big enough for those pectorals (or that ego).

[Catherine Vincent]

19. Nope. I don't believe that at all.

He's in love with the repuklican party. He was at their convention in 1992 here in Houston.

[CBHagman]

21. We don't want the nasty little boor.

We already have enough problematic people in the party (Let's face it, we're not all saints). Stay away, Mr. Vulgarity!

[sangh0]

22. You believe a radio host?

Either the radio host is making it up, or is being fed info from the Schwarzenegger camp. In either case, the info is not credible.

[eleny]

23. Sounds like a meme created to quiet us down n/t

[Skidmore]

28. That's a meme that would push me out o f the

Democratic Party for sure. These days I'm hanging by a thread. Would never become a member of the R party, and can't quite embrace the Green party with any degree enthusiasm.

This party cannot expect to resurge if it continues to do things the R way. I want the DLC gone. I want a populist who understands ordinary people. I'm sick of unprincipled hacks on this side as much as any the Rs have to offer.

Believe me, I feeling pretty disheartened.

[stopbush]

24. Ah-nold as Trojan Horse? I can see it.

I was thinking this myself just yesterday. It would be the perfect way to fuck with the Dem mindset. Consider:

1. the groping problem becomes a Dem problem, not an Ah-nold problem. He figures Dems will drop the issue because he's now on "their side," and it will give repigs a chance to use the occasional "of course he's a Dem now...he's a sexual predator just like Clinton" line.

2. Ah-nold says he's a Dem so the CA legislature will work with him. Of course, he's a Zell Miller Dem at best.

3. He still ends up endorsing bush in '04, "party labels mean nuh-ting to me...Ah vote for da man...you should, too!"

4. The repigs shrug it off - "it was never about getting a repig in, it was about getting rid of Gray Davis (who just happens to have been a very visible, lifelong Dem in a heavily Dem state). We're just happy Gray is gone. Ah-nold can be whatever he wants to be. That's what we repigs are alll about!"

5. It gives the repigs a chance to vilify the CA legislature, setting them up for a repig takeover in '04. "Those CA Dems are so against the will of the people, they can't work with the man of the people (Ah-nold) even when he joins their party. Time to throw them out and put in more repigs (hello, redistricting!). Ah-nold is Ah-nold, but these Dems are the spawn of Satan."

And so it goes...

[DemCam]

25. Boy....that'd put me in a bind!

:shrug:

[SammyWinstonJack]

From what has been reported here regarding his agenda

I would say he isn't leaning in that direction. Why didn't he run as a Democrat then? Didn't he think he could get elected in Cally fornia as a Democrat? Sounds like crap to me.

[stopbush]

29. But did he run AGAINST the Dems

or against Gray Davis? Had he vilified the CA Dems, I would say no way he switches parties. But I think he ran against Davis and politics-as-usual. What do you think?

[ReadTomPaine]

27. Reminds me of William "Bill" Markham in FL - what's the point?

The policy, platform and personality are the same- it's purely opportunistic.

[Snellius]

30. Republicans are more worried than Democrats

There's a woman caller on Limbaugh asking, "If we were concerned that Teddy Kennedy coauthored Bush's education policy, how will we feel when the Kennedys start writing the national platform of the RNC?"

[Dogmudgeon]

32. I've been saying this on DU since August

Vindicated at last!

--bkl

[tom_paine]

34. I'll believe it when I see it and not before

No way Arnie goes with the Dems, who cannot promise him the 2017 Emperorship that the Busheviks will give him.

They need an Emperor I'm-a-Bushevik-but-my-name-ain't-Bush-so-stop-saying-we're-a-hereditary-Empire. Especially in 2017 after the reign of Emperor Jeb makes it an even 16 years of Bushevik horror.

They need a "liberal" Republican (Arnie will do as Pete Wilson tells him, more or less, because he has no fucking idea about governing) to distance themselves and Arnie will function as Raygun did, a nice, stupid propr behind which they can continue their Ops unabated.

[TheBlob]

35. Wow - I predicted this rumor last night!

Last night on the news here in NYC, Caroline Kennedy was asked about Arnold and his Republicanism, and Caroline - ever the diplomat - smiled that beautiful smile of hers and said (somewhat tongue in cheek) "We're working on him."

I knew right then and there someone would take that ball and run with it.

[ronnykmarshall]

38. Caroline Kennedy

More and more she looks and carries herself like her beautiful mother. *sigh*

I wish the rest of her family were still with us.

[TheBlob]

39. So do I.

"I wish the rest of her family were still with us"

I'll go to my grave knowing deep in my heart that JFK Jr's death was one of the best things that ever happened to the Republican party.

[realFedUp]

40. Political affiliation won't be important in prison.

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[mkregel]

42. Strangely enough I heard this

And it has to do with the Kennedy tie in. The rumor I heard was that he would run in the recall as a Repub with Kennedy support, then sometime during his admin switch to Dem as a payback to the Kennedys.

[Zhade]

43. SchwarzeNazi is not welcome in the Democratic party.

NT!

[Blue_Roses]

44. I seriously doubt he will switch

to Dem, maybe Independent later on possibly, but then right now I doubt that too. After seeing what is really going on in that state maybe Arnie will have a conscious and do some things that will really help the people. Miracles happen everyday.

[ronnykmarshall]

45. I could see him an indy.

But he is not welcome in Democratic Party. I sure a hell won't be baking him a cake.

[HitmanLV]

47. Fantasyland....

...it would have been easier for him to run as the 'mad as hell' dem in the recall election than pull a stunt like that.