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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Dance right on till the floors are breakin'
I'm a California man.
As a native Californian I guess I'm obligated to make some kind of comment on today's "historic" election (you have heard about it, haven't you? Apparently it's been in all the papers). Not that I really want to.
I think a starstruck and fairly uninformed electorate is going to recall Davis and elect Arnold Schwarzenegger today. If this election were to be held next week or the week after, Schwarzenegger would probably lose and would be finished in politics forever. But the hits and revelations came too late, there are too many absentee ballots that already in, and Bustamante ran a boring and uninspired campaign (possibly because he dealt with the issues, poor dumb bastard).
Talk radio has been non-stop 24/7 recall-Davis everyday, and their listeners are highly motivated by the usual suspects: greed (the car tax), stupidity (Davis was somehow responsible for the manufactured energy crisis), and racism ("Busta-mecha"). These are simple people and Schwarzenegger is the simple candidate with simple solutions, so it's the perfect storm of stupidity.
I keep hearing that I should be embarrassed that we could end up with Arnold as governor, but then I think about the states that have elected such luminaries as Rick Perry, Saxby Chambliss, Rick Santorum, Norm Coleman, Sam Brownback, and Jeb Bush, and I suddenly don't feel so bad. And keep in mind that, as a state, we said "no thanks" to the sleeping nightwatchman of September 11.
For what it's worth, Schwarzenegger hasn't even been elected yet and he's already damaged goods. The recent revelations along with the ones yet to come should keep him dancing for awhile. In the meantime, the Democrats control every major office in the state as well as the Assembly and the State Senate. Don't expect them to lend Arnold a helping hand unless it's in their best interest. Snappy catch phrases from action movies will only take you so far.
In the long run Schwarzenegger's tenure should closely resemble Jesse Ventura's: unremarkable and doomed from the start.
Oh, and Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger is going to love Sacramento. It's like Fresno, but without the glitz.
There. I got that out of the way.
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