CALIFORNIA RECALL

It’s 11:30 and I’ve been jumping between Fox News and The Daily Show, watching coverage on both of the California recall vote. The Daily Show just had a bit with their “senior political” correspondent reporting that Arnold was just accused of groping Adolph Hitler. I jumped to Fox and thought I hadn’t changed the channel. Fox had Bob Mulholland (no jokes!!!) on and he was saying the recall didn’t have anything to do with Gray Davis’ policies, it had everything to do with unhappiness with incumbents and “Bush Jr.” had better watch out. He also said the Democrats would give Arnold 100 days to fix all of California’s problems before they started to push for a recall.

Months ago when this recall looked like it was going to happen and Arnold was going to get in, I said something profound (it does happen once in a while). I said Arnold wasn’t going to be touched by any dirt because he was from Hollywood. I said stars are always doing things that would crush a normal human being, but it doesn’t affect the love people have for them. Stars shoplift, get caught doing “stuff” in porn theaters, hit and run, spend half their lives in rehab and generally act like boors and pigs – and the people just shrug. Sure enough, Arnold wins a MAJORITY of the votes in the recall election.

In another starnge twist, more people voted for Arnold than who voted for the recall. That means people who voted for Davis (No on recall) on question number one also voted for Arnold. They said, "I want Davis the Democrat, but if I can't have him, please give me the Republican". That makes as much sense as Bustamante's slogan, "No on recall, Yes on Bustamante".

Ah, Californians. You can't make this stuff up.