Arnie Running for Governor
You know, if you've got to have a Republican Governor of California (or any state), I can't really think of a better guy than "The Terminator" himself. Seriously.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered a "moderate" conservative, even back in the eightees, when he was supporting another actor-turned-politician, Ronald Reagan. Now, after the harrowing swerve to the right that the nation has taken--with leading "Democrats" like Joe Lieberman sounding more like George W. Bush these days than...well...George W. himself--Arnie is downright liberal!

He has sensible stances on key issues: abortion, gun-control, and civil rights for homosexuals. In fact, this race is really the only way he could ever run for a major office as a Republican, because he'd be crucified by conservatives in any primary campaign and never make it on a normal ballot. A Democrat, on the other hand, will be hard-pressed to beat him, since s/he won't be able to take advantage of the normal hot-button issues for California voters (who are overwhelmingly pro-choice).

Also, Arnie uses his money to help poor children, daring to call them "underpriveledged" and use other pc lingo that sends conservatives into blithering tizzies. His Nation Inner-City Games Foundation is a great example of the kind of altruism nominally invoked by George Bush I's call for "A thousand points of light". While most republicans answered that call by using their wealth and influence to get other wealthy people RICHER (take Dick Chenney fattening the wallets of his Haliburton buddies as example 1 of 1,000,000), Arnie took the call to heart and started helping people who NEED it.


On a less serious note...this race has the potential to be damn entertaining. Not only is The Terminator running, but so are Gary Colman ("what you talkin' bout, Willis?") and Gallagher (you know, that guy who's always destroying watermellons on stage), and several other dozen not-so-entertaining people. Forget that other state, this is the race for Jerry Springer!