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Originally posted by 84_GT350 :

I still don't buy him as a politician. Did he make some good investments? Sure. Will such things help California? Probably not. He can't invest their money.

The point was that Schwartzenegger has years of experience in big-time financial dealings that career politicians don't have so all they know to do is tax and spend, and that casued a lot of California's financial problems.

I think people have very good reasons to offer negative comments. The man openly admitted to sexually harrassing women and it was like water off a duck's back. Instead of facing the fact that they were backing a guy who'd screwed up, they said "awwww...he's so honest". Wow...I'm sure Californians were desperate but that's just ridiculous.

Most of these harrassment claims were anonymous and probably bogus and involved little more tha some woman saying Arnold touched her butt in 1978 at some gym. Right. Funny, the women never mentioned any of this for 10, 20, 30 years and never sued Schwartzenegger when they had to know how rich he was. Californians were not stupid - they knew an election fraud when they saw one and the L.A. Times had little credibility on this manufactured 'scandal'. THank God for intelligent voters.

Saying he's a moderate doesn't help much either. I think it's more like he's trying to play to both sides. He wants the republican vote but he's trying to get as many democrats on board by telling them what they want to hear. Problem is the dumb bastards fell for it.

You obviously do not understand the nuances present in politics. A Republican moderate is quite common. Think former N.Y. Mayor Rudy Guliani...fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and a heckofa good mayor.

I also really don't think his name or accent was in any way a problem for his acting career...remember that he started out as Conan who was a barbarian (as the the movie names imply) from the middle ages. Plus you don't watch those movies for dialogue...it's all about some ripped guy gutting other barbarians.

Oh, yeah, that explains his 25-year success, including non-Terminator films. Gimme a break.

As for turning down a Terminator 4...you think he's hurting over not making another $20 million? Correction: he wasn't a pampered actor. Now he's got more money than god and I have a nagging suspicion that since he's married to a Kennedy relative he feels he's got to do something political. California needed a change...absolutely. Davis seemed like such a douche and hescrewed that state sooooo bad. I'm just not sure some actor fits the bill. I also think it should be a prerequisite for the office that you need to be able to properly pronounce "gubernatorial". To me, the guy'll always be a pandering moron (much like certain other elected officials of higher power).

Obviously, if Schwartzenegger walked on water you would find something to complain about so I don't see much point in debating with a stone, partisan, wall who has decided Arnold Schwartzenegger is unworthy of the office he has won, democratically. California voters disgarred with you. Arnold won and won big and now he has to deliver, of course. He will, and all the carping criticisms such as yours about 'actors' will be forgotten when he does.