* has rained too much doom and gloom to make Arnold palatable to CA voters

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

Arnold was hu-rahhed in red, white and blue on the talkies (not Letterman, the other one...), on Time, on Newsweek, and by the Bushies as though it were Republican National Convention confetti time. It's not. The UN was bombed, highlighting, by now in nearly everyone's mind, the US' having committed its troops to a doomed and desperate situation, bankrupting US coffers and mortgaging America's future to boot. There is no Israel/Palestinian peace process (nor was Bush ever committed to one), but there is an all out dedication to making good on vendettas for all eternity. The lights went out in half the country for no apparent reason, at least not one that most Americans can explain, and nobody within the Bush administration (has Spencer Abraham been located yet?) can make any guarantees that it won't happen again. Ridge is promising more terror attacks against the US any moment, keeping everyone on a constant state of alert. Yet Rove, Leno, and Arnie expect Americans to laugh, joke and make chitchat about the most recent upending of democracy (I already voted against Simon once) like it's Super Bowl time.

I think Arnie's comic timing is off. The mood of Californians now matches the dark clouds the Bush administration has hung over the country ever since Inauguration Day.

My prediction: Arnie is toast if the fiasco called "an election" is ever held, and may each movie he makes from here on out win the Raspberry Award it so richly deserves.