Last Word on Recall: Terminate Arnold’s Candidacy

Posted on October 3, 2003 in Gray Davis Recall

I’m going on vacation. I’ve already cast my vote against the recall and against Arnold Schwarzenegger. I will leave my trust in the wisdom and the strength of my fellow Californians to see the folly of what they seem to be about to do, which is to put into power a puppet of those who have wrecked the state in the first place with their energy cabals and hate rhetoric.

The danger we invite is terrible and shocking. Mark Morford lets loose this howl:

We are, in fact, inviting a seething and pro-corporate cadre of inbred GOP Arnie advisers not seen since, well, since the Rove/Cheney/Rummy team of war-happy corporate whoreslugs.

We are inviting political and fiscal chaos, the state’s infrastructure already teetering and fragile, and Arnie’s “team” would simply shove out hundreds of recently appointed department heads and replace them with more conservative GOP dittoheads — all told, a sudden and massive influx of mediocrity and conservativism and pointless celebritydom into the state that needs it the very least.

But don’t we all just love the idea of bringing in someone who’s “not a politician”? Someone who’s not part of the “corrupt” system and who can therefore promise a whole different set of values and really shake things up? Ooh, he’s a big, famous actor! Ooh, he’s not a part of the normal Washington scum pond! He’s merely a part of the normal Hollywood scum pond! That’s much better!

Besides, I’ve seen him blow up thousands of people and mangle city buses using only his thighs and kill icky scary alien creatures with his bare hands. I bet he can make a difference! Screw those crooked politicians! Arnie’ll show ’em! Right.

Oh how we have become deluded and sad. Oh how we are apparently duped beyond our own comprehension. Is this really what we want?

Look. Let us be blatantly clear. The very last thing a massive and resource-rich state with a budget bigger than that of most European countries needs is a ego-thick GOP cyborg with no political experience who gets his policy ideology from a sulky former governor and Republican shark, and who owns a fleet of Hummers and hasn’t bought his own shoes in 20 years and whose glutes are far, far larger than his brain.

Morford, myself, and many others are screaming not because we love Gray Davis, but out of the same sense that any loving parent or sibling or friend would scream if we saw a loved one about to marry a dangerous dope dealer or a drunkard. Gray may not be the most exciting son-in-law, but he remains sober and he fights for the people.

I have more faith in you, my fellow Californians. I believe that with the evidence now pouring in despite Arnold’s dumping of millions of his own money and soft special interest money into his campaign that you will see him for what he is: a movie star on a vanity trip, a man who will not tell what he is really about, a sexual molester, a phony.

Gray Davis ain’t no prize, but he thinks for himself and he knows California. Vote no on the recall. Gray’s the better man by far but because of the hype and the conditioning you have received to think in terms of explosions and pressed suits, you have been blinded.

Let the scales fall from your eyes, Oh my California. Know your true friends. Terminate Arnold on Tuesday. Save your state from the special interests, especially the one man special interest whose name is Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Thanks to Andrea the Shameless Agitator for putting me on to this article.

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MoveOn is collecting money to air an ad about Schwatzenegger’s “stuff her head in a toilet bowl” quote. Check it here.

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My personal thanks to all those friends of democracy, justice, and common sense who have responded to my blog and email messages calling for support of the anti-recall campaign. You are in Lynn’s prayers and my good thoughts. Thank you for your help saving California from the Special Interests.