Arnold Schwarzenegger Wins.!

Hasta la vista, Kommiefornia.

I've been smoking crack all day and dreaming about being the next Sherman Austin. I hope that bad Mr. Scharzenegger doesn't win, then I might have to get a job.

We finally have a nazi rapist in the governor's mansion! Yes! No more Kommiefornia to take away our rights as nazi rapists!

They're using the "nazi" word again. Ouch! that hurts, not!

The left is crumbling because it is composed of dull, unimaginative, slothful, parasitical, grudgeful no-hopers. Conservativism is where the smart people are.

Who says I ain't a conservative? The Nazi Rapist gets my vote!

If you believe that then at least you would be consistent. You voted for the rapist Clinton, didn't you?

Kiss you ass and say Hasta la vista to you money. Auf Wiedersehen !!!
Kalifornien is ja a NAZI state..
Congratulations Bush Admirer!!!
Congratulations KOBE!!!
Congratulations Nonanarchist!!!
Congratulations fresca!!!
Congratulations to all fascists IMC occupiers !!!
Is just the hard beginning …

Watching Jesse Jackass and the Dem party leaders lastnight cry in their soup was a laugh. Jesse Jackass had to be the best of all the dumbfucks though. "Da vo-ters was dis-en-fran-chised. Ma-ny was turned a-way from the polls in mi-nor-i-ty a-re-as. Dis is a great dis-ser-vice of jus-tice. We will be tak-ing these mat-ters to court." And then there were the usual crybabies who were saying they were going to start a recall petition was soon as Arnold was sworn in. And the typical nuts who claim they are going to bring up criminal charges against Arnold, which isn't going to happen for several reasons. All in all, just watching these idiots in total panic and crying and whinning because the Democractic children can't get their way was a hoot. I swear, when liberals lose it's just funny to watch how outrageous they get. We're not taking about the most emotionally stable people to begin with, but couple that with getting punished by mother and the "I'm feeling sorry for myself" in them just naturally flows out.

just as long as the cost of movies don't go up, and the popcorn.

Now Democrats and Independents and Republicans, who know to a person that the recall was bull, must work to stop this republican takeover. First Republicans stole the White House now they have stolen the Governor’s house in California. In Texas they are working to steal congressional seats in illegal congressional redistricting. Democrats must fight back. Democrats need to stop being so damn gracious in a time of political war. Democrats must fight the way the other side has in order to defeat these fascist. They must use any and all means necessary to ensure the survival of democracy and the Constitution of the United States against all those with money and drunk with power and believe they can just destroy it as the people sleep. All those who truly believe in justice must work to recall the recall. It is just. It is right. Recall the recall. Recall the recall!!!

"First Republicans stole the White House now they have stolen the Governor’s house in California."

How many elections are you gonna have to lose before you realize that most people are just plain sick and tired of your sides bullshit?

Face it. these elections continue to get "stolen" one after another, because that's the outcome people want.

Stop whining.

That's right. You Dems go for an immediate recall. You only THOUGHT last night was backlash until you try that crap.

ADAM NAGOURNEY and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, NY TIMES - A film producer who chronicled Arnold Schwarzenegger's rise to fame as a champion bodybuilder in the 1970's circulated a book proposal six years ago that quoted the young Mr. Schwarzenegger expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler. The book proposal by the producer, George Butler, included what were presented as verbatim excerpts from interviews with Mr. Schwarzenegger in the filming of the documentary "Pumping Iron." In a part of the interview not used in the film, Mr. Schwarzenegger was asked to name his heroes - "who do you admire most."
"It depends for what," Mr. Schwarzenegger said, according to the transcript in the book proposal. "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education up to power. And I admire him for being such a good public speaker."
In addition to the transcript, Mr. Butler wrote in his book proposal that in the 1970's, he considered Mr. Schwarzenegger a "flagrant, outspoken admirer of Hitler." In the proposal, Mr. Butler also said he had seen Mr. Schwarzenegger playing "Nazi marching songs from long-playing records in his collection at home" and said that the actor "frequently clicked his heels and pretended to be an S.S. officer."

Election's over guys. Your smear tactics didn't work. Of course, you'll keep trying them over and over and over again. There's a wordfor that.

Gray Davis is out, Arnold Schwarzenegger is in, and a great political show is over. Official returns from the California secretary of state's office show voters approving the recall of California's Democratic governor by a margin of 54.9% to 45.1%, with 99% of precincts reporting. In the race to replace Davis, Republican Schwarzenegger has a commanding 48.2%; his closest rival, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, a Democrat, has just 32.1%.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/08/recall.main/index.html

http://vote2003.ss.ca.gov/Returns/recall/00.htm

These results should lay to rest those claims that the recall is "undemocratic." It's true that the potential existed for a somewhat screwy outcome, in which more people voted "for Davis"--that is, against the recall--than for the new governor. But Schwarzenegger has some 3.6 million votes, while only 3.5 million "no" votes on the recall have been registered, so there's no question that a plurality of Californians backed their new governor.

In addition, Republican Tom McClintock, who is more conservative than Schwarzenegger, picked up 13.3% of the vote, giving the two GOP candidates more than 60% of the vote between them, in a state that Al Gore won by nearly 12% and that gave Bill Clinton a majority in 1996 despite Ross Perot's presence in the race. As for the other also-rans, Green Peter Camejo managed just 2.8%, considerably less than the 5% he got in 2002. And it's back to Hooterville for Arianna Huffington, who got a measly 0.6%.

Remember the famous red-blue split in the 2000 presidential election? The California secretary of state's office has a map that shows California is similarly divided. Counties that voted against the recall are show in red; those that voted for it are green. The Northern California coast is all red from Monterey up to Humboldt (only the northernmost coastal county, Del Norte, is green). Every inland county is green, except a few on the outskirts of San Francisco, and so is every Southern California county except Los Angeles, where the antirecall margin was 51% to 49%.

http://vote2003.ss.ca.gov/Returns/recall/mapN4.htm

Gov. Davis gave a gracious concession speech, though supporters booed his conciliatory words. "Let's put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for California," he said. Amen--though if he'd done what's right for California in the first place, he would now be looking forward to another three years in the governor's mansion.

The lowest of the lowbrow candidates has won.

Recall Governor Groper!

Let's examine the Republican vote spread:

Schwarzenegger 3,675,317
McClintock 1,009,941

The votes are in! More than 3 out of 4 Republicans approve of sexual harassment. What a hypocritical lot to have impeached President Clinton.

You need to decide if you wanna hang out here of sfimc.

Wasn't Clinton impeached for committing perjury when being questioned by a Federal Judge? Yeah, that's right.

I personally am very happy that Arnold was elected it only means that If I had:

Moved here from Austria, gotten fucking muscled-up out of my mind, promoted physical fitness with George Sr., married a Kennedy relative, made movies with gratuitous violence and gore (I love Predator though), joined into a few gangbangs, and grabbed every extra's ass in Hollywood,said that I admired Adolf Hitler (for ANY reason) then I TOO COULD BE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA !!

Sweet fucking Deal...

Stay here by all means. This is a great day to read the extreme maddness of The Angry Left and I am confident you can add much. I'll have to check out SF-IMC, too. Probably some real whacked-out nutsos complaining over there.

No need to go to SF-Indymedia for nutsos-you're more than nuts enough for me...

Liberals and Anarchists are the entertainment here, monkey-boy.

Ahnold is about as qualified for governor as Gray Davis is for an action movie.

"People get the kind of government they deserve. Your public servants serve you right." - Adlai E. Stevenson

Thanks for propping up the Plutocracy...again!

So, what are you saying, that Davis WASN'T a plutocratic fascist?

We just traded one for the other. Why weren't you putting up pics of Davis in a Nazi uniform?

"Why weren't you putting up pics of Davis in a Nazi uniform?"

Davis isn't cheering on the Third Reich.

Not MY President.
Not MY Governor.
Lovely. Now California has a nazi puppet governor to go with the nazi administration running our government.
Seig Heil!

Ahnold, you are lame, all of us Californians DID NOT vote for you, just as all of the U.S. didn't vote for Bush. This fake recall is a joke. Gary Coleman is a more qualified governor/actor/puppet.

If voting solved anything, it would be illegal. Political parties arguing against each other is just another tool to breed more hate, which the U.S. government thrives on.

"We the people", the Bill of Rights, U.N. peace, and our freedom doesn't mean shit anymore....and you will be thrown into a Bush prison if you aren't brainwashed and don't brown nose his stale, lying ass. The revoloution is beginning. And when a "change is gonna come, i'm gonna help it on it's way." Peace.

>>"Why weren't you putting up pics of Davis in a Nazi uniform?"

>Davis isn't cheering on the Third Reich.

Doesn't matter. Republicans and Democrats are cut from the same cloth. You don't sound like an anti-fascist. You sound like a Democratic Party hack.

Let's see some pics of Davis in a Nazi uniform, then I'll believe you're serious about being anti-fascist.

Davis would be more appropriate wearing a hammer and sickle and carring pictures of Stalin and Chairman Mao, but you make a good point. Never have we seen any photoshop pics of Democrats dressed up in Nazi garb, yet there are many on the Indymedia sites who will tell you that Democrats and Republicans are all equally "pro-capitalist fascist".

When I used to read SF-IMC, many, many times those over there refered to SF Mayor Willie Brown and Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown as fascists. Never saw anyone superimpose a pic of them in Nazi garb.

It's not like I really care, this place has always been outlandish. It's just interesting that those who consider all pro-capitalist to be fascist, regardless of their party affiliation, only REALLY get upset of it's a Republican, and not really upset at all if it's a Democrat.

FASCIST: Anyone who disagrees with us. SEE ALSO: shill, Brown Shirt, sheeple, NAZI, Hitler, racist, dittohead, Republican.

Nonanarchist, Bush Ad., I totally agree with you and the other repubs. that say that Gray Davis may have fucked up things in California, although I don't know for sure.

But I don't understand why you would elect a movie star-allegations aside-to fix California's economy and energy problems. If ANY other republican candidate had been elected, I would have had NO problem with it. Arnold isn't a bad guy (I have groped several asses in my day) but why would you elect him to solve the problems California (one of the largest states) had after Gray Davis...

I can see where the Californian voters were fed up with all of the bullshit, but how do you rectify those problems by putting an actor (he's not a career politician) in the Governor's mansion ?

I think you just answered your own question. People are tired of career politicians.

I'm fully convinced that their isn't a single Democrat, Republican, Independent, Green Party of any other elected official in Federal or any State government that isn't there because they either slept with he right person, is on the take from somebody, or both.

I agree. People (me too) are sick of career liars. Almost all politicians are. But you didn't explain why you would elect a movie star. There were plenty of successful business owners, lawyers (okay, maybe not), and other successfully established corporate types-don't you think that they would be better choices for the Governorship ? It's not about Arnold, it's about credibility. Arnold was known EXCLUSIVELY as a movie star until this recall election...

If New York had the same energy crises, and the same immigration problems, and the same +8 billion dollar debt, would you elect Bruce Willis just because Pataki (this is in theory) has been pinned as the cause of the downfalls ?

I think the fact that there were so many oddball candidates in the race helped Arnold-I'm not saying he wasn't fairly elected, I believe he was, but sometimes you just have to pick the lesser of two "evils"

And thanks for not responding with trite insults and base comments, Answer.

I think you hit on it again. Arnold was viewed as being successful at the things he has tired. He was a successful body builder, he was a successful movie star, he was successful at marketing himself. People looked at him and determined that if he was so successful at the other things, he might be successful at doing what it takes to get the state turned around.

If you've been in the business world long enough, you'll note several traits of successful people, among them being they never say "can't", they are very confident in their abilities, and they have egos that need to be fed. To them, failure is not an option. I have to believe the people of California saw those traits in Arnold.

Other than that, and the career politician thing, that's what I base it on.

Thanks, Answer.

For the first time on La IMC I have had a peaceful talk with someone on an issue, and managed to come to a conclusion. It's not that this site doesn't work, it's the assholes who are convinced they know everything. I have changed my views on Arnie, but I wil be wary of what happens in the coming months.

"He who knows everything, knows that he knows nothing at all"

Yeah, this place gets outta control sometimes. Oh well.

What I wrote is my guess. Ask 10 people and you'll get 10 different answers. But you already know that.

Refusing to validate or even recognize the raw voter resentment against the political cesspool of Sacramento, liberals wound up pinned up against the wall, on the losing side of an historic voter revolt. As the insurgency swelled, the best that liberal activists could do was plug their ears, cover their eyes and rather mindlessly repeat that this all was some sinister plot linked to Florida, Texas, Bush, the Carlyle Group, Enron, and Skull and Bones. By bunkering down with the discredited and justly scorned Gray Davis, they wound up defending an indefensible status quo against a surging wave of popular disgust. So gross was their miscalculation that the campaign ended last week with the lobbyist-infested state Capitol being surrounded by 10,000 broom-waving Arnold supporters instead of by what should have been an army of enraged reformers and progressives.

The harder the Democrats now have to work to hold on to constituencies they'd rather take for granted, so much the better. One day they may actually get it.

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/47/dissonance-cooper.php

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I suspect that won't happen unless the Dems suffer resounding losses in next year's election.

Because they wanted an autograph, or a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the guy who played the Terminator, not the Governor who's going to rescue them from their ills...

lets just hope he isnt as corrupt as Davis...
we'll see...although that Ken Lay meeting has me a little worried....
Repealing that bullshit registration tax is good...

...is they surround themselves with very bright people.

Is Bush a whiz kid? No. But he hired some smart folks to advise him.

I expect Arnie will do the same.

Is Bush a whiz kid? No.

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Arnold's ego was massaged while California will be in for a possible ride.