Prescience: or How Arnold and Phil Convinced Me To Not Vote For Governor in '06

Last night I wrote that my work schedule could change at any time, and sure enough when I arrived at work today and saw the schedule for next week, I was scheduled to work on Tuesday, which is typically one of my days off. Definitely jinxed myself there. Working 11 of the next 12 days = unjust punishment. If W really wants to tort...I mean detain and question terror suspect responsibly, he should force them to run the teleprompter for a local TV station all day, every day...they would crack in no time.

Also, I predicted when he was elected to overthrow Gray Davis as governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger would be re-elected when the time came, despite an ineffective first term. Surprise, surprise, he hasn't done anything, and yet the time has come for re-election and Phil Angelides, the Dem Challenger was D.O.A. Arnold has killed him with TV ads, attacking his personal record as State Treasurer, telling us why P.A. would move the state backwards, with video of angelides doing various tasks, only played in reverse and set to vaudeville-like music.

Meanwhile, Phil, too, went to attacking, telling us how Arnold is the one moving us backwards, his ads showing a man on a motorcycle more than slightly resembling The Terminator, played in reverse. Original ideas...clearly not the strong suit of his campaign. And now his ad tells us all the negative things that have happened under Bush, juxtaposed with footage of Arnold campaigning for him in '04, building to a crescendo, where we are met with this ever-relevant dagger:
"Arnold Schwarzenegger is for George W. Bush. Is he for you?"

As if that has any bearing on our gubernatorial race.

So, it appears we have 2 candidates committed to moving us backwards and making bad commercials, and no one can tell us why we should actually vote for either of them, opting instead to simply tell us why we should not vote for the other guy.

So, barring some new information or tactics cropping up in the next 6 weeks or so until the election, I see no reason to vote for either of these bums. I wouldn't vote for Arnold anyway, and I can't take Angelides seriously....he looks kinda like a weasel.




I'm holding out hope for Snoop to announce his candidacy in 2010.