Few turn out at `Thank you, Arnold' rally

[Newsjock]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/11385581.htm

By Dion Nissenbaum
Knight Ridder Sacramento Bureau

SACRAMENTO - Efforts to generate grass-roots support for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ``Year of Reform'' agenda fizzled today at the State Capitol at a tepid rally that drew anemic support.

With private security guards stationed along the Capitol grounds to fend off counter-protesters, only a few hundred Schwarzenegger supporters turned out for a ``Thank You Arnold'' rally hosted by Hollywood actor Tom Arnold.

... Schwarzenegger allies leading the signature gathering campaign for the proposals organized today's rally in an effort to demonstrate public support for the governor. Organizers said they expected 1,000 people to turn out. Instead, about 300 supporters, including a healthy contingent of Republican legislative staff members, took part.

[Fenris]

1. "Year of Reform" - most uninspired program name EVER

[UCLA Dem]

8. This is off-topic, but that Burger King statue thing really creeps me out

[Terre]

13. I thought I was probably the only one

I have to avert my eyes everytime that dang commercial comes on.

Creeps me out as well.

[Boo Boo]

26. No shit.

:wtf: were they thinking?

[SeekingDemocracy]

30. It's definitely the "Year of the Creepy BK ads" NT

[Greylyn58]

33. Me too...

especially the one where the guy sees the king standing in the backyard. Turns and looks inside at his wife, then turns and he's standing there in front of him.

Just creeps me out every time. Eeeewww!!:scared:

[Mutley]

34. me too!

[Sequoia]

69. It's like a Stephen King movie character.

But Arnie creeps me out too. Ha, ha, and smirkty smirk no one shows up except his cronies.

[KittyWampus]

12. 'Year Of Reform' Sounds Like Something Chairman Mao Would Have Conjured Up

to inflict more pain on the masses.

[katty]

48. da Terminator will be terminated here in CA-most are so over him

[UCLA Dem]

55. Amen to that! Lets make sure it happens!

[stopbush]

20. Summer of George...

[Fenris]

21. That's exactly what it sounds like.

First initiative - eat a block of cheese.

[Old and In the Way]

51. The "Son of Bush" Summer

Will this be the summer he's captured?

[donheld]

56. "Year of Deform"

Arnold the Deformer of all things good.

[coloradodem2005]

2. Aw. Poor little Ahnold.

:evilgrin:

[manic expression]

3. The average Republican

will think that "tepid" means "exciting", and that "anemic" means "awesome".

[PartyPooper]

4. Maybe they're running out of steam?

I certainly hope so.


:D

:hi:

[saltpoint]

5. If they'd used another verb, they'd have drawn a bigger crowd.

[Turn CO Blue]

49. Yeah, "Blame it on the Lib'ruls Rally" would have drawn 1000's!

[UCLA Dem]

6. Thank you, for what???

Not so formidable any more eh, arnie?

:rofl:

[flamingyouth]

7. Wow - this is a lousy role even by Tom Arnold standards

:eyes:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. OK..that line deserves to be on the greatest page

[flamingyouth]

15. I do what I can

:evilgrin:

[ktowntennesseedem]

37. Tom would have drawn far bigger crowds than Gropenator. -nt

[stevedeshazer]

9. HAA-haa!

[PartyPooper]

19. That picture is positively *priceless*!

Where on earth did you find it? Let me guess, Florida!

:D

:hi:

[stevedeshazer]

41. Stole it

from The Onion, where truth and fiction are blurred into irony!

:hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

52. It IS great!

When I was in Iowa last January volunteering for Dean, one of our Deaniacs saw a Fox van standing unattended, and just had to embellish the back bumper with a shiny new Dean sticker.

:D
FSC

[ReadTomPaine]

10. Saggy, man-boobed Arnold needs all the support he can get.

The playtex variety. See this thread from earlier today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3044975&mesg_id=3044975&page=

[CountAllVotes]

18. ugh

wow, now that IS ugly!

:kick:

[kineneb]

11. Gee, did the grass roots get sprayed

with herbicide?

The sun cannot set soon enough on Arnie for me.

NorCal Native.

[autorank]

16. Wow, Tom Arnold, now there's a guy everybody likes!!!

:puke:

[tinrobot]

42. Thank Arnold? Thank TOM Arnold...

...for being so unpopular, he probably drove people away or at least confused them into submission.

Note to Governor: Next time you have a rally, don't have it hosted by an unpopular guy who has THE SAME NAME.

[cascadiance]

64. Tom, I'm a big Iowa fan too like you...

... but this time you're picking the wrong team to back, as the crowd tried to show you!

Are you going to rationalize that you blew it trying to have a cast party for "True Lies" or "Red Heat" about 10 years too late? Though the first movie title seems to sum up what we've been seeing from our governor and our president lately.

[rooboy]

17. All of Arnie's supporters are busy guarding the Mexican border. n/t

[stanwyck]

58. and it's only a matter of time

before The Minutemen wannabes start resembling "Predator"...one by one disappearing.
If they don't shoot each other first.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. COOL, Hey Arnie here is a free hint

Pack sand! Go back to your B rated movies!

[Journeyman]

23. Wonderful. Now we citizens have to pay for Arnold's supporters. . .

because I strongly suspect few of those Republican legislative staff members were there on their lunch hours.

[EFerrari]

29. Don't we foot the bill for all Repub rallies these days?

I just don't get why this isn't a huge issue. :eyes:

[Voltaire99]

24. A gropenflop for the gropenfuhrer.

Now, if he would ride around in a Humvee firing automatic weapons out the window while fondling some bimbo, he could change attendance around in a minute.

Ooops! Forgot to put the *SPOILER* tag on this post. ;-)

[Kolesar]

25. npr/ME: "Arnold's honeymoon is OVER"

Listen to Morning Edition today on NPR. They chronicle the protests and his plummeting popularity. :popcorn:

[xchrom]

27. see how grateful we are?

[EFerrari]

28. Hey, lay off! We haven't been invaded

by robots from the future!

Go Caleeeeeeeeefornia!

[qanda]

31. Encouraging news

Perhaps people are coming to their senses.

[IronLionZion]

32. replace "thank" with "fuck" and you've got a rally!

:P

[Jade Fox]

65. Those "few" probably thought that was what it was!

:wtf: "Hey, where's the Fuck You, Arnold rally?" :wtf:

[redqueen]

35. HA HA!

How many staffers in the healthy contingent? Couldn't they have given us just a ballpark figure?

Tom Arnold is an idiot...

[prodigal_green]

40. Maybe it means

the ones who didn't call in sick.

[lateo]

36. WTF Arnie...didn't you learn from Bush?

You have to bus you "supporters" in so the media can see how good you are doing...

[Goathead]

38. There are probably more people that are responding to this thread

than attended that rally, when you take away his embedded staff.

[Sequoia]

71. You get the Post of the Day Award!

[ronnykmarshall]

39. Poor Arnie

Please let this be a sign that he's going down.

[Shiraz]

44. And the morel of this story is :

When you cheat to win your only fooling yourself into believing you have the support of the majority !

[callous taoboy]

43. They all carpooled in their Hummer Limos.

[yellowcanine]

45. I heard "about 150" people showed up - according to NPR

Heard on NPR this morning about 150 showed up. Interesting that this report says 300. Can we assume there were 150 supporters and 150 Republican Party hacks at BEST? (more likely they were all Republican Party hacks. Are there that many RP hacks in KallyFornia?)

[Dukkha]

46. Where's the Recall rally now?

The energy problem has worsen since Ahnold replaced Davis. Where's the outrage now?

[UTUSN]

47. What---the Paid Claque from RAYGUN's Funeral Wasn't Available? n/t

[underpants]

50. Sounds like everyone went to the "**** You Arnold" rally instead

:bounce:

[AnneD]

53. I would rather go to a rally...

in support of my fellow Registered Nurses....way to go...wooh wooh. That will teach him to dis you guys.


:yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SammyBlue]

54. Ah HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is priceless. Added to greatest page by my vote!

[olddad56]

57. The only people who need to thank him are corporate types.

[stanwyck]

59. I hear the Swiftboat Liars

are available for hire. Just give them the airfare and money for booze and whores and they'll show up.

[0007]

60. ....and most of those 200 supporters, were shills and junior's

butt boys that Karl sent. No way 300 supporters showed!!

[ignatius 2]

61. Maybe they should have has a fuck you Arnold rally just to see

what would happen.

[PATRICK]

62. Tepid wins

if there is no opposition. The Dems better get a hero up there or Arnold will simply get a cropped photo shoot out of these events for an easy, lazy and fraudulent victory in the upcoming election. He has been trying to shield himself from a frothing reaction against all GOP, himself included, but does he really have anything to fear?

There is the adage "never interrupt an enemy while he is making a mistake" much abused to the point of putting up no opposition. Mistakes don't matter to the GOP because the big thing is they can't really seal a popular vote without the Big Lie anyway. The big tent of the current GOP IS putting all their flaws, failures, crimes and flubs under this tent.

That cover has to be blown big time. The adage was meant to impart wisdom not inertia.

[Rex]

63. So are Arnold and Tom dating yet?

I saw them in True Lies, the spark was there!

[cascadiance]

66. Yup, There's a lot of "Red Heat" between them! :)

[pazarus]

67. I dont get it.

wasnt that James Belushi and not Tom Arnold? am I missing something here?

[AuntiBush]

68. He means "Last Year 'Round"

There's the man-dates, for ya! Take yar pick! :puke:



Shew. Feeling right ill, now.

[davidinalameda]

70. LOL

Ahnuld's time has come and is going very quickly!