Ladies and Gentlemen, the Next Jackass Governor of California

As Arnold Schwarzenegger cynically rides a say-nothing strategy toward Sacramento, the LA Times' Mark Arax sketches a time when the actor/politician wasn't so shy. One anecdote from Schwarzenegger's gym-rat days is more telling than anything the candidate has said so far on the campaign trail: After sleeping with a friend's girlfriend, he tricked the girl into getting the guy on the phone, then stood in the background yelling "I JUST [MADE LOVE TO] HER! I JUST [MADE LOVE TO] HER!" over and over. (This is the LAT's delicate redaction of Schwarzenegger's tasteful comments.) So now we know: Our next governor is the guy who asked you to smell his applesauce in the high-school cafeteria, then smashed your nose into it and made everybody look. Only much, much worse. Arax's piece is creepy and disturbing, and should be required reading for anybody who watched the recent "debate" and came away thinking Schwarzenegger is anything other than an empty suit with a mean streak.

Comments

[beerzie boy]

Thanks for the link.

[Bill]

my pleasure. vote gary coleman!

[Dave L]

Can't do much better here than repeat H.L. Mencken's classic definition of democracy:

- Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it fast and hard.