Schwarzenegger, Confident and Ready for Prime Time

[kskiska]

SACRAMENTO, June 23 — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has dazzled California with a string of legislative victories in his first months in office, has shown that he may well be a political master after all. And now he is letting President Bush know just how much he is — and is not — ready to devote his full star power to the national re-election effort.

Mr. Schwarzenegger, in an interview in the Bedouin-style smoking tent he has set up in the courtyard of the State Capitol here — smoking is banned in state buildings — made it clear that he expected a prominent role at the Republican National Convention in New York in late August.

"Whether I'm speaking, I'll leave that up to them," said Mr. Schwarzenegger, a global celebrity who has emerged as perhaps the most intriguing new Republican face of the political season. "If they're smart, they'll have me obviously in prime time."

But Mr. Schwarzenegger, who has been defining himself as a moderate, also made it clear that when prime time is over, he intends to keep some distance from Mr. Bush, who is not particularly popular in Democratic-leaning California.

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[Democat]

1. Republicans: Who cares what Hollywood actors have to say!

Unless they are Arnold or Reagan. :)

[billbuckhead]

2. After this November election the Dems should make recalling the Gropenator

a top priority. The Governor from Enron must go.

[goclark]

5. Agree Completely!

He fooled most of the people long enough to get in office. He is dangerous!

[Tight_rope]

7. Glad to see some California's have their head on straight...

Get rid of that Motherfucker...he's not on your side.

[Cha]

3. gropenator wants it both ways..."prime time"

with bush and then scurry back to California and forget he ever knew him...I hope this bites him in his smoke filled ass.

And pray tell what "big victories" in California? Or is this just the media talkin'?

[MisterP]

4. what a blithering idiot

Warner Springs Fishwrap
SCHWARZENEGGER: ‘CALIFORNIA UP FOR GRABS’
Says he won’t grope around for solutions, will put squeeze on illegal immigrants outside those from small Alpine villages, introduces Ms. Brüstner, Chester Boozom as ‘close aides.’

At his re-inauguration speech, the Governor asked the women of the state to tell him how they feel.
Later that day, Schwarzenegger pronounced May to be California Breast Awareness Month, and demonstrated how to examine for possibly-cancerous “lumps” or tumors.
In regards to legislation, he demanded that there be “no breasting wave of tit-for-tat, busting-out weird laws” coming from the Legislature. He said they would be “busted” if they did otherwise than as he desired.
For the environment, Schwarzenegger asked that the state’s Fish and Game add several species of titmouse birds and establish a fund to help boobies in the Pacific, especially on islands under direct U.S. jurisdiction. He also desires the renovation of the Grand Teton parks in Idaho and Wyoming.
Governor Schwarzenegger said that he wanted to give California a “helping hand” out of the current budget “pinch.” “A hand up is what I offer, to offer hope to lift the bosoms of the people of California.” He said he would be a “hands-on” administrator who keeps abreast of current trends. In Sacramento, he said he would press the Assembly to pass his economic bills. He promoted private charity, saying that “Californians, like myself, should just reach out and touch someone” and to “grab a handful” of the donation envelopes and brochures on the nearby tables at the press conference.
At a visit the Arcata, Calif., Sinclair Home and Garden store, he praised metalsmith Ellen Hathorne and potter Irene Hautajil for their work, saying that “their jugs, knockers, and racks are very nice to look at. I could do so all day.” When some of the audience began laughing, he order them to “stop tittering.”
In the evening, the Governor kicked off a “Got Milk?” campaign with the California Dairy Council. At a later conference and dinner on Turkish relations with the Middle East, he gallantly cleaned the shirts of several young women, even when the food stains thereon were negligible.
The Governor is expected to make a trip to Tel Aviv, his seventh trip to Israel since becoming Governor, to “get a feel for the local population.”
At the Sacramento Veterans’ Hospital, he entertained various soldiers injured from Operation Virulent Rhino in Borneo. He helped the nurses as well, rubbing “Vick’s VapoRub®” onto the chests of soldiers with laryngeal and pulmonary inflammation.
The Governor’s autobiography, Hands Firmly in Place: On the Reins of Power, was described as “gripping” by The New York Times and as “just grabbing you over and over again” by The Miami Herald. And as “a grab bag of events in Schwarzenegger’s not-too-difficult life” in an unfavorable review by The Washington Post. “Touching” opined The Washington Times.

[Lindacooks]

6. barf

I hate that creep.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. This from a man who's father...

"pulled the gold fillings out of the mouths of Jews"!

:puke:

[leesa]

9. As long as he doesn't say anything pro-"B...U...S...H"

Shhhhh.....