Schwarzenegger Star Power Fades for GOP in State Races

[Rose Siding]

SACRAMENTO — Republican hopes that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity would help the party win more seats in the Legislature have faded in the final days before Tuesday's election as Democrats enjoyed a boost from the presidential campaign.

Just weeks ago, Republican officials spoke optimistically about the potential impact of hearty campaigns by Schwarzenegger in behalf of Assembly and Senate candidates. Now, however, even some sources close to the governor concede that the outlook has darkened for Republican candidates and that Democrats could gain a seat.

The Democrats already hold sizable majorities in the legislative chambers: 48 to 32 in the Assembly and 25 to 14 in the Senate, which has one vacancy after Republican William J. "Pete" Knight's death in May.

Poll results for GOP candidates began dropping after the last presidential debate, said Assembly Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield. It's an indication that President Bush's unpopularity with California voters might be weighing down his party's chances further down the ballot.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-legis1nov01,0,5962693.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Jade Fox]

1. HA ha!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. All their demigods...

Have feet of clay.

[GoldenOldie]

7. Picture Anold sucking on a big fat cigar with puffed out chest

does not a pretty picture make.

This ego-maniac attacks on the American Indians along with his wanting to change the Constitution to allow him to make a run for President. Many foreign born Americans would make an excellent POTUS but Arnold is not one of them.

I also wonder if any one of Arnold HUMVEE's....I heard he has 8 in various colors......are equipped with armor. He is the Governor of CA and am sure his vehicles are armor plated, unlike much of our troops in Iraq????

[Sequoia]

17. He was shown gassing one of his HUM-Vs on line

last week (ABC or CNN)'s website along with The Boss on the right side in an article that mentioned how the candidates were using star power. Ahnold makes me sick and whenever that Constitutional change is brought up I just get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. Never, please never!!

[LiberalFighter]

27. Shove all those cigars up his dunghole

[henslee]

3. hee-hee.

[molly]

4. It's payback time!

[pinniped]

5. Think I saw that freak on tv telling us to vote the repukes into...

office.

FU Pet Terminator!

[BUSHOUT]

6. Arnie just recently is facing a civil suit in Britain for groping.

His past will always haunt him.

Lot's of people go to jail for "bad behavior", he was made a governor. He'll get his in the form of a destroyed reputation.

You can't grope women and expect to get away scott free.

[SoCalDem]

8. Maybe He "WON'T be baaaack"

[GoldenOldie]

10. Bush made POTUS with his history of bad behavior!

Apparently the Cons are only concerned with the Dems behavior be it good or bad. The Cons have a way of turning a decorated hero into a traitor and an AWOL/Deserter into a Air Force flight pilot.

[ozymandius]

9. Never fear! I'm sure Zell Miller is willing to help where Arnold cannot.

Seems an even trade: a yammering groper for a yammering demented fool.

[Larkspur]

11. So The Terminator can't help the terminally ill Repukes

Thank Goddess!! :evilgrin:

[Divernan]

12. GOP women with wimps for husbands ADORE Ahnold!

That's my theory and I'm sticking with it!

[David__77]

13. GOP consultant: "I'm hoping for a snowstorm."

That attitude sums up GOP 2004--work so that no one shows up. So much for the "terminator." Sorry, people voted for a social liberal "moderate" Kennedy-connected independent-seeming Schwarzenegger, not a typical far right California Republican. It doesn't transfer.

[Nag Champa]

14. Save California! Deport Arnold.

OK... So maybe that's a bit strong. But is anyone else bothered by his constant quoting of his old movies? I wish someone would explain that he is not the Senior Class President of Venice High. It is this unprofessionalism that does it for me, but I think I am in the minority.

Most people I talk to are fairly supportive of Arnold. He is like the boyfriend California took to piss off our parents. Seems to me we sort of like watching the rest of the nation wince when they call him Governor.

[Zorra]

15. Now that is some good news for California.

More Dem seats in the legislature means less and less Arnold until he is "terminated".

[Callisto]

37. Gavin Newsom for Governor

We are tired of Arnold already- I'm hopeful Gavin Newsom will run for Governor- he would ROCK and he's prettier than John Edwards! :kick:

[davidinalameda]

16. but they'll pick up Silicon Valley seat

Steve Poizner--whom the Chronicle has endorsed

more effort on the part of the Chron to appear "non-partisian"

he sold his computer company and made a mint--he's bankrolling his entire campaign, even buying TV commercials

I just hope the people in the district see past this guy

[Bandit]

18. Most Republicans have a twelve year old's mentality

They pretty much suffer from arrested developement. They like the action heroes that twelve year old boys love and instead of intelligent speach they come up with action movie sound-bites eg."Make My Day" or "Read My Lips" etc. etc. They are just children who have their fingers on the button. Scary ain't it?

[neuvocat]

19. After endorsing stem cell research it was bound to happen.

Republicans are not happy with that at all.

[cubsfan forever]

20. What, you mean that most Americans

don't like Nazis in their midst? Shocking! :puke: on Ahnold

Professor 2

[goforit]

21. Arnold is sounding more and more like a tyrrant every day!!!

May he fall with his beloved idol, BUSH!!!

[Ima]

22. what chapped my behind

For days before the recall, the TV stations played back to back Arnie movies.:puke:

[AndyTiedye]

23. After The Election is Over, We Can Start on Total Recall II

Particularly after the Kerry administration REALLY starts to investigate Enron.

[calimary]

26. That will be sweet!

They REALLY believed, deep down, that Arnold would be some kind of magic-maker, and deliver California to the republi-CONS. That was the main reason behind the recall of Gray Davis. It was all about positioning. Looks like their plans have gone up in cigar smoke.

[AndyTiedye]

29. A Recall Will Also Toast His Presidential Ambitions

Send Arnie back to Hollywood where he belongs.
I *like* his movies, let him make more of them!

[hangloose]

24. He's just not a believer in George "BrainDead" Bush

after all very time he stumps for GE he don't get no SEX.

[Carolina]

25. His star power has been TERMINATED!

This is just sooooooo good.

[PatriotGames]

28. I just got rid of any movies with Ahnold in them. He makes me sick.

[zbdent]

30. Mrs. zbdent thinks that Ahnold looks good in a suit

I agree, he does. W fills out a suit nicely too.

That doesn't make him any better a Governor than the suit makes Bush a President . . .

[sui generis]

31. Mrs. Dent, we need to get you some nice democratic fellers

who look GREAT in a suit -

not this one

[zbdent]

32. Now, wait just a gol' durned minute!

I look pretty good out of a suit . . .

I haven't heard any complaints from Mrs. zbd. And she's likely to be voting for Kerry . . .

[sui generis]

34. ha hahahaha!

posting too fast - I thought you were Mrs. Dent. No green meanie grinchness intended -

:hi:

[MADem]

35. Yeccccch! Beg to differ!!!

W looks HORRIBLE in a suit...he obviously can never get them to fit, even when he gets a renown tailor like Georges de Paris to make them for him. Now Clinton, there's a fat boy who could wear a suit and look FINE. The weecowboy has bowed legs, can't manage to put his arms to his sides, and has an odd HUMP, square in shape, on his back!!!

As for Ah-nuld, he may have looked good in his youth, but since he had his heart valve replaced due to steroid abuse, he's had to give up the 'supplements.' As a consequence, his huge neck is getting chicken-ish, his legs are getting skinnier every day, he is losing his ass, and I wouldn't be surprised if half of his figure is the result of judicious padding....

[johnfunk]

33. Memo to Ed Gillespie:

Our Boss trumps your Gropenführer -- LOOOOOOOOOOSER!

[DeadManInc]

36. Ahnold

you have been terminated ahsshole.