Graybeard: I'll go with you and the Questor on this one. I've only read a little bit about his personal and social views but my impression is that they lean far too much to the left for my tastes. In addition, if he has to build a base of demicraps, moderates and first-time young voters it sounds like the blind may be leading the blind.
Questor is right - the Kalifornikans deserve what they get. Unfortunately, they also get a lot of media coverage and that spreads liberal views like flies spread disease. Although Kalifornika deserves what it may get, there's no excuse for tracking what they step in into your house.
Ventura, on the other hand, learned to think unconventionally when he was in the service. Seal training does that, it's a take-off on the unconventional warfare we started with special forces. That can be a real benefit when dealing with a fixed concept of how things should be (either one party's platform or another) run. Unconventional thinking is something that has to be learned, then tried and put into successful effort. Ventura went the distance and learned how to do that. That is what made him dangerous to the entrenched politicians and the ingrained thought/public policies of the major parties in that state and successful in his efforts to attain office.
Ar-nuld doesn't have that sort of a background. Whereas Ventura could think outside the box, Ar-nuld doesn't have a box to think in. He free-associates as we say in psycho-babble and his notions of how people and a government should act and what they should do is not based on the solid reality of a tried and truely successful effort. What is his example - more PRK. That should say something.
Ya know, water runs downhill and schmidt floats, so that's going to run downhill too. Unfortunately for most solid citizens the media hype fostering this type of political flowering doesn't care where the fertilizer comes from and since they see hollywood as being 'on high' (probably a continual high at that), you can guess where it's all gonna run down to.
If the PRK elects a liberal like arnie, when they already have an anti-gun attitude and state senator like feinstein, think of the momentum all that liberal gush will create on the other side of the continent in places where frau klinton, herr schumer and the alkie toxic ted hang out. This could get worser and worser and worser. I think it is time some rational soul put their foot down in PRK, just as long as they don't put it into the piles of schmidt left by the liberal wags that inhabit the place. Dang Guys, I think it's time for another revolution. Just my 2 cents worth. Mikey.
