Ted, You would have a kewl Terminator dude learning to run the largest state in the union OJT. How smart is that?
My support for Arnold has little to do with the "kewlness" factor, and a lot to do with a revolt against career politicians like Davis. You'll find that most of Arnold's supporters are the same way. California is already a mess, and people are tired of watching others screw over the system just to get re-elected or to gain support for higher office.
CA's mess has little to do with the career politicians you so dislike. The politicians are a reflection of the people........in other words, you get what you pay for. Arnold is someone who has a good guy image, is a successful, sometimes ball buster actor and has made some good real estate investments. I assure you that does not qualify him for the governorship.
MN could afford to play around with Jesse Ventura........the state is well run and fiscally responsible. Besides, Ventura was the mayor of St. Paul first and St. Paul paid for his OJT. CA is not in the same, enviable position.
Compared to that, Arnold is a lot more trustworthy. His "kewlness" is just a statement of his popularity and electability. So he's very left-leaning. So he's inexperienced and won't detail his policy. Experience is irrelevant, as Davis already demonstrated.
Davis's problem is not that he doesn't have the experience; its that he's not innovative enough. CA's problems are in a league of their own.........it takes a very special peron to deal with them......and Arnold ain't one of them. It takes a person like Riordan who is smart, innovative, confident and perennially optimistic to take on a CA or LA.
And Arnold has already outlined his vision and has demonstrated that he'll stick to that vision no matter what issue is put before him.
Arnold has done nothing. The media is taking him to task because he is so unprepared. You are projecting your own vision onto him.
Meanwhile, all you do is sit behind some computer in Washington and poke fun at the California electorate, just like you did with Floridians. No solutions, just another gawker at a train wreck.
What the f*kk? I lived CA nightmarin' for ten years plus. You've been there for what, ten months, and you think you know all the problems and their solutions.
CA's problems are as complicated as they are messy........mainly because its electorate are CA dreamers, living off the fat of the land and unwilling to work together to solve problems. That was okay for lots of years because CA has a lot of natural resources but beginning in the 80s, things started to catch up thanks to Prop. 13 and the heavy immigration of both legals and illegals. Tax revenues were going down while demands on gov't were going up. With the worst recession in CA history, the two slammed together in the early 90s.....particularly in S. CA. While conditions have improved since then, things were never fixed properly.
Look around you.......there was never grafitti and gang problems in OC until the mid 90s. The problems are spreading from LA south. Riordan went a long way to taking the edge off of LA's problems but he's not a miracle worker.......the problems are still there festering under the surface, waiting for another civil insurrection or earthquake to expode once again. If the rest of the country truly knew how bad things are in CA, they would force the state to secede from the union.
FLA screwed up my vote and elected a president who did not win the popular vote. Clearly, FLA has problems that need to be addressed but their problems pale compare to CA's. CA is in a league of its own. There is a reason why Feinstein did not run.......and its not bacause she prefers DC to SF.
So please don't tell me I don't know what I am talking about or I am getting some vicarious thrill from seeing CA in trouble. I know CA well and worry what its problems could do to the rest of us.
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