Is Ah-nuld A Girlyman After All?
So, the Governator won’t campaign for President Bush, at least outside Gollyfornia, but he thinks that John Kerry is just a swell fellow.
Asked if he believed Kerry would be a bad president, Schwarzenegger told Tony Snow, "No, I'm not saying that at all. ... He's a friend of mine. We lived together, near, in Sun Valley. We go skiing together, ice skating and hockey playing together. I promised myself that in this campaign, I would never talk negative about him, because he's a terrific human being. I just happen to have a different political philosophy and a different way of thinking the way the country ought to be served."
One angle on this is that this is tit for tat for President Bush not endorsing Ah-nuld in last year’s California re-call campaign. But that seems kind of petty, and besides, Senator John McCain is campaigning with Dubya outside of Arizona, and everybody knows the knock-down drag-out they had in the 2000 GOP primaries – and how much of a grudge-holder Sailor is.
I don’t know that any of this matters all that much, but I would suggest a much more uncomplicated alternative: that Ah-nuld lives and travels a lot closer to Kerry’s social circles than he does Dubya’s and simply doesn’t want to make unnecessary trouble for himself with his Hollywood friends – not to mention his in-laws.
After all, he’s already said that he won’t seek a term of his own in 2006. For him, being governor of the nation’s largest state is a hobby, a diversion, not the beginning of another career, as it was for Ronald Reagan. But he’ll be in the jet set for the rest of his life.
Kind of makes Schwarzenegger less an “independent” than a man whose allegiances, at least in spirit, lie with the “girlymen.”
Casts his upcoming GOP convention speech in a bit of a different light, doesn’t it?
Asked if he believed Kerry would be a bad president, Schwarzenegger told Tony Snow, "No, I'm not saying that at all. ... He's a friend of mine. We lived together, near, in Sun Valley. We go skiing together, ice skating and hockey playing together. I promised myself that in this campaign, I would never talk negative about him, because he's a terrific human being. I just happen to have a different political philosophy and a different way of thinking the way the country ought to be served."
One angle on this is that this is tit for tat for President Bush not endorsing Ah-nuld in last year’s California re-call campaign. But that seems kind of petty, and besides, Senator John McCain is campaigning with Dubya outside of Arizona, and everybody knows the knock-down drag-out they had in the 2000 GOP primaries – and how much of a grudge-holder Sailor is.
I don’t know that any of this matters all that much, but I would suggest a much more uncomplicated alternative: that Ah-nuld lives and travels a lot closer to Kerry’s social circles than he does Dubya’s and simply doesn’t want to make unnecessary trouble for himself with his Hollywood friends – not to mention his in-laws.
After all, he’s already said that he won’t seek a term of his own in 2006. For him, being governor of the nation’s largest state is a hobby, a diversion, not the beginning of another career, as it was for Ronald Reagan. But he’ll be in the jet set for the rest of his life.
Kind of makes Schwarzenegger less an “independent” than a man whose allegiances, at least in spirit, lie with the “girlymen.”
Casts his upcoming GOP convention speech in a bit of a different light, doesn’t it?
posted by JASmius at 1:04 PM
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