Schwarzenneggar for Governor!

After a long period of slumber California politics is about to awaken to a restless mesomorph's candidacy for governor in 2006.
Or so the rumors go...yup yew guessed it, falling box office grosses are pushing Arnold Schwarzeneggar out of tinseltown and into California politics.
On the surface this is a perplexing idea, Arnold is at best a cartoonish candidate for governor.
However let us not forget that California is a notoriously cartoonish electorate that loves to alternate certified clowns like Ronald Reagan or Jerry Brown with stultifying technocrats like George Deukmejian.
So it looks like thing have gotten sufficiently decadent for the inevitable political clown cycle to begin anew.
And in truth, Arnold is as good a bet as any, of course the bar is always set lower for Republics than it is for Democrats. Ambitious Dems (owing to the party's chronic cash shortfalls) are obliged to demonstrate a specimen of their abilities at a lower level before bidding on statewide office.
Not so with crude hungry GOP aspirants like Schwarzeneggar, money, name recognition and the ability to stay on message to the point of delirium are the only qualifications for high office.
Here Arnold has an advantage, most GOP sound bytes sound almost exactly like the sort of brutish threats he's been mumbling in the movies for nigh on thirty years now.
And whenever some lout with a short resume' runs for an office they hardly understand, the GOP's amen section all over America start bleating the absurd mantra "it's about the candidates IDEAS-not their experience!"
So it's not like Schwarzeneggar won't have help....no doubt George Will has a chirpy mincing gloating column extolling the bodybuilder's simpleminded virtues lying in wait on his hard drive even as I write this.
If you add that priceless and menacing Teutonic accent to the standard conservative-populist nonsense and you've got a formula for the Big Sure Win.
Politics is such a debased fragmented business these days, Schwarzeneggar can't help but win.
No doubt in due course Karl Rove will regret Arnold's naturalized citizenship....under the current rules the actor can't run for President....unless fixing that little constitutional bug is one of Karl's current projects.
Who can tell?
Hell we'd be the last to know...