California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
How is it that the national Republican wave missed California by a mile? State political pundit Steve Frank sums up the cause in two words: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Would you trust a political party that gave you $140 billion in defiicits? Would you trust a Party that gave you a Governor looking for ways to give amnesty to illegal aliens?
Would you trust a political party that has a Governor that supports choo-choo trains over economic stability and loves ObamaCare?
Arnold brought us to 12.4% unemployment and a Great Depression.
Arnold also bankrupted the California Republican Party--he caused divisions and disputes--kept donors from supporting the GOP.
With Arnold as the titular head of the California GOP--with a fiscal record that put us into a Depression, with policies like AB 32 that have caused massive unemployment and will devastate the Satte over the next few years, with his refusal to support his own political party--after seven years he has done the impossible.
He destroyed a political party and he has destroyed a whole State--Our slogan now is "Welcome to the Tarnished State".
All Governor-elect Brown had to do to prevail was remind voters of the similarities between two novice Republican officeholders. . . and engineer a little illegal immigrant controversy.
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Sep '10
Re: California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
They don't call him The Terminator for nothing. "I'll be bankrupt."
Aug '10
Re: California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
What a shallow. mediocre, deceptive, and massive fraud Schwarzenegger's been. He came to office with all the Reaganesque buzz words and rhetoric, but crumpled like the cheap, empty suit he is when the going got tough. Then he allowed himself to be co-opted, scapegoated, and kicked around like a football.
Part of the blame must lie with his wife Maria Shriner, who's a Kennedy. Old Uncle Teddy gave Ahhhnold plenty of pointers along the way.
May '10
Re: California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
Well, the root cause is certainly the long-standing weakness and incompetence of the Republican party organization in California. Remember that the "Arnold phenomena" happened because of the weakness of the party, and it's inability to put up any kind of resistance to the obviously failing Democrats. That's also why outsiders like Meg and Carly end up on the top of the ticket.
So much infighting, and so many over-inflated egos. I'm sure this all looks incomprehensible to folks in states with well-run Republican organizations, but just as there are sport franchises that seem unable to come up with winning seasons, the CA Republicans have a knack for losing.
Jul '10
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First time I'd seen that ad, but wow that made her campaign look like an Arnold parody.
Re: California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
Whiskey, my wife and I saw the ad run last weekend and immediately had a shared sinking feeling in our mid-sections.
Jul '10
Re: California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
First time I've seen it. That is the best political ad.
May '10
Re: California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
This did Meg in far more than Housekeeper-gate. Though i have to say if she had gotten the Jerry Brown "I lied" ad on a little sooner, she might have neutered this one. She also could have agreed not to use negative ads which would have gotten this one off the air.
Jun '10
Re: California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
People forget that CA was long a GOP state, this is after all the home of Nixon and Reagan. Clinton was the first president to win the state since Johnson's landslide in 1964. In Sacramento, the only Democrat governor since Jerry Brown's last term ended in 1983 was Gray Davis, and he was recalled. San Francisco is famously liberal, but Orange County, San Diego, and all the rural and agricultural parts of the state are deeply conservative. The GOP could be competitive here, but Arnold has really demoralized the base.
Jul '10
Re: California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
Let us recall that Arnold came to Republicanism via his youthful ardor for, um, Richard Nixon.
Nov '10
Re: California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
I don't like Arnie's performance any more than anyone else on this discussion. However, it is difficult to give him the majority of the blame give both the senate and assembly in Sacramento are DEM controlled.
I would assess the California anomaly to the rather significant influence of the public sector unions in this state who essential have the DEM party by the throat.
Does anyone have accurate stats on the normalized size of the California public service relative to the other states? This would be a good piece of data.
Jul '10
Re: California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
--H.L. Mencken
It seems to me that given the choice between a possible failure and a proven failure, the voters went for the sure thing.
Edited on Nov 3, 2010 at 1:41pmJul '10
Re: California Governor-Elect Brown and the Governator
I think there's another similarity between those two candidates...