Reply #50: It is perfectly legitimate to bring up anything about a

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candidate and/or his background including his childhood and family life if it may have a bearing on his fitness for high office.

Unfortunately, most of the California media has decided that nothing about A. Schwarzenegger's life prior to his declaration of candidacy is "newsworthy." This is because they believe that the slate was wiped clean when he changed from being a movie star to a candidate.

On the other hand, just about any accusation anyone has ever made about Cruz is considered "fresh" and is widely publicized.

The media double standard is alive and well. Just about anything is OK if you are a Republican. And as we saw with the implementation of this double standard during Election 2000, a truly vile individual wound up in the White House, in part because important questions were not asked or answered about Bush and a fine public servant named Al Gore was ritualistically trashed.

Something similar may be about to happen again.

If you don't want to mention A. Schwarzenegger's Nazi father, don't.

You're entitled to your personal desires. But others -- including me -- will bring it up because Californians had better find out. If Californians elect A. Swarzenegger knowing the facts, then I will disagree with the plurality but will allow as how they made an informed selection. If they elect him without knowing the facts, then I will assume they really don't care -- and democracy is essentially irrelevant.

Ideally we will know the facts in full, and we won't elect him.