March 23, 2009 5:53 PM

Is Schwarzenegger Eyeing A 2010 Senate Run?

By
Michelle Levi
Topics
Senate 2010
(AP)
The San Francisco Chronicle reported this morning that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may be setting his sights on Washington and considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2010.

The Chronicle points out that the Terminator turned governor has been tactful in his political allegiances. He campaigned for Sen. John McCain during the 2008 campaign and showed up last week with President Obama at a White House meeting on infrastructure.

The article points out his ambitious campaigning across the state for his new budget plan and notes that lately the governor has softened his tone on a political future.

"I have my hands full with all the stuff I'm doing now," Schwarzenegger said earlier this month. "I'm concentrating on that and not what I'm going to do next," he told the Chronicle reporter.

"You know," he apparently added, "I'm not a politician. I'm a public servant."

He and wife Maria Shriver are not strangers to Washington's power circles.

Saturday night, Schwarzenegger brought down the house during his Republican "response" at Washington Gridiron Dinner. He laughed at the journalists' apparent dumping by the president, who declined the invitationt to attend.

"You did such lovely work for [Obama]," the governor told Washington's media elite. "You put your lives on hold to put him in the White House. Now you get all dressed up, the champagne's on ice, and you find out he's just not that into you," he joked, according to the Washington Post.



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by gce651 March 24, 2009 9:07 PM EDT
He's got to do something else; he's term limited as governator.
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by starultra2 March 24, 2009 8:11 AM EDT
What is he thinking thinking of? this will never happen. He need to look at what he has done to California... I'm glad he and his family can sleep at night, they dont have to worry about there next meal... roof over head nor job.
Arnold you are clueless to what the people of California want nor need.
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by longtree-2009 March 24, 2009 6:35 AM EDT
why not a senator? arnold should have the opportunity to damage the united states just as he has ruined california. arnold has been just as bad a governor, if not worse, as the governor he replaced with the recall election. arnold is just about photo ops and much ado about nothing with little or no results.
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by budmag06 March 24, 2009 3:49 AM EDT
My God, NO!
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by sjc_1 March 24, 2009 12:20 AM EDT
"He has resisted tax increases consistently..."

Yes and the state is a mess because of it. His buddy Warren Buffet told him to rewrite Prop 13 in 2003, he ignored him and now the state is in crisis.
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by norcalruss March 23, 2009 10:24 PM EDT
He might as well. He is pretty popular with the independants and probably has as much chance as any republican in this state. Besides he's getting too old to play the Terminator character LOL!!!
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by jxknowles March 23, 2009 9:04 PM EDT
Arnold would be a good choice for Senate. I hope he wins the seat.
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by thatchmo62 March 23, 2009 8:30 PM EDT
We should have voted for Gary Coleman.
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by jumkey March 23, 2009 8:28 PM EDT
Yeah, great idea.

The idiot voters of California recalled the last governor for a $5B deficit complete caused by Bush and his Enron cronies (remember when Cheney went all the way to the Supreme Court to avoid having to disclose this plan?)

So now the REPUBLICAN governor has run up a deficit almost 6 TIMES this amount (6 TIMES!!!) and we're getting a sales tax increase on April 1st. Goot job Californians!

Yeah, this dope smoking boob would make a great Republican Senator.

It's perfect.
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by thatchmo62 March 23, 2009 8:22 PM EDT
He's done enough damage to California. Do we want him to join the Senate and screw up the country? Oh wait, the country is already screwed up so he wouldn't have much impact. If it keeps him out of our statte most of the time, go ahead Arnold. Just lower our taxes and reduce government like you promised when you fooled us Californians into stupidly voting for you two times.
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