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Is Schwarzenegger Aiming for 2012?
Oct, 31st 2008: Senator John McCain (Rep-Arizona) called upon the polished rhetorical skills of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (Rep) in his last ditch effort to capture the vital swing state of Ohio (20 electoral votes)...
According to reports the Hollywood icon made a rousing speech to a crowd of several thousand in Columbus, Ohio. His address made no bones in attempting to terminate Senator Barach Obama's policies and extending his uncharacteristic vitriol to the Democrat nominee`s more slender physique: "Every year in March I come here to organise the Arnold Classic, which is all about building the body and pumping...That's why I want to invite Senator Obama because he needs to do something about those skinny legs. I'm going to make him do some squats....And then we're going to make him do some biceps curls to beef up those scrawny little arms. But if he could only do something about putting some meat on his ideas. Senator McCain on the other hand is built like a rock. His character and his views are solid."
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Governor Schwarzenegger`s late appearance on behalf of the McCain/Pallin ticket is a timely one for both their immediate ambitions - according to most polls they are trailing - and whatever Presidential ambitions he might be entertaining beyond next Tuesday´s national election.
The wide national and international exposure which his Ohio speech garnered could serve as a helful message of reassurance that, whatever the outcome of the election, he, as Governor of California, can be called upon to serve the general interests of a Republican party that is no longer ring-fenced by the Bushs 41 and 43. Such might be the 2008 calculation given that if McCain does (remarkably) capture the Oval Office the 72-year-old is likely, for one reaon or another, to be a one-term President.
And the prospect of a 2012 President Schwarzenegger shouldn`t be so easily dismissed given how that state`s Republican Party was in the 1970s able to bounce fellow Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan - himself former Governor of the crucial state that is worth 55 Electoral College Votes - into the role, twice.
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