Of course he (Schwarzenegger)'s running for president

[question everything]

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Of course he's running for president

Gov. Schwarzenegger is ambitious and talented, so why stop at Sacramento?

By Doug Gamble
The Carmel resident is a former writer for President Reagan.

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For some reason, Schwarzenegger has been disingenuous lately about his presidential ambitions, pretending to back away from them. When asked last month on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" about the current drive to amend the Constitution to allow immigrants to occupy the White House, Schwarzenegger answered, "I don't think the idea is that allthe push is because of me. I mean, I have never thought of running for president, and this is not my vision."

But much of the push is because of him; he has thought of running for president and it is his vision.

Certainly the hope of a Schwarzenegger presidency is the driving force behind the organization "Amend for Arnold," headed by Silicon Valley money manager Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones, who says the country needs a "moderate" in the Oval Office instead of the conservative Republicans she calls "the wing nuts running our lives." And it's unlikely that one of four bills before Congress seeking a constitutional amendment would have been introduced by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, were it not for Schwarzenegger becoming governor.

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And it isn't always a lengthy process. The 26th Amendment to lower the voting age to 18 was whisked through to ratification in four months. One can envision Schwarzenegger, after winning re-election as governor in 2006 and with his presidential ambitions then unabashed, campaigning state-to- state in favor the of 28th Amendment.

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Schwarzenegger's ego would never allow him to settle for anything less than the top of his profession, and politics is his profession now. He may be denying higher ambitions because he does not want everything he does as governor to be viewed through the prism of presidential ambitions. But don't be fooled. He's running.

http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/03/15/sections/commentary/california_focus/article_442601.php

[Betsy Ross]

1. Be warned

Ahnold's popularity in California is declining. But that's not much of a deterrent to becoming president. Seems another fellow who lost the gubenatorial race made it to the WH.

[zbdent]

2. Well, he's already committed himself

he's made the prerequisite statement of a Republican:

"I really don't want to be President."

Bush43
St. Reagan

a few others . . . Didn't Eisenhower claim that he would refuse the nomination once?