“I’m just trying to get my points out there.”
-Porn star and California governor candidate Mary Carey, thrusting her decolletage toward the camera on “The O’Reilly Factor”
Here’s a serious question that occurred to me about the California recall election: Can someone tell me exactly why Arnold Schwarzenegger is considered a serious candidate, even the front-runner, and Gary Coleman is considered a joke?
Because when you ask people who they are going to vote for, a biggish percentage of them say, “Arnie”.
My wife, for one, who announced to me the other day, “You know, I’m going to vote for Arnie.” After I sputtered a bit, I asked if she wasn’t interested in maybe finding out his positions on a few issues first. (My wife, btw, is the one in the family who, after talking me out of voting for Nader because of the evils of a then-hypothetical Bush presidency, confessed to me afterwards that, while I was dutifully following her instructions and ignoring my conscience to cast a Gore vote, suffered an election-booth change of heart, and voted for Nader.)
This still doesn’t answer the question of _why_ people are willing to vote for Arnie.
Got me. People vote for people for the oddest reasons. But I think we should get used to it: Arnie’s going to be the next governor of California, unless something truly amazing happens in the next few months.
Coming from the totally clueless bitch point of view, mine… the only thing that I have heard from Gary Coleman since his days of tv stardom was on a talk show where child stars came on to complain about how being a child star ruined their lives. And well, Arnold is practically a Kennedy who is a successful actor that can hardly speak english. Quite an accomplishment. Looser vs bruiser, i guess.
http://www.marycarey.com/platform.html
From Mary’s platform:
4. If I?m elected Governor, I will wire the Governor?s Mansion with live web cams in every room. We will create a pay site, and all money collected will go toward reducing the deficit. Californians will get to see their government in action – literally! (Also, we will have people from around the globe helping to pay off our debt, so it doesn?t all fall on the shoulders of Californians.)
The woman is an evil genius.
I don’t see what’s so evil about her.
I can’t tell you, because I have no idea. It almost makes one ashamed to live here. (But the weather is so nice, I can’t leave.)
Arnie iz hero
Vote arnie vor governator
I think that arnie is hott, and that we need a hot polotician i would bend that hunk over and ram him wit a strap-on anytime… why y’all gotta hate him?