Schwarzenegger felt snubbed by Rove

[LeighAnn]

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says in his new autobiography that Republican political guru Karl Rove predicted the 2003 California recall election that put the muscleman-actor in office would never happen.

Schwarzengger writes in "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story" that he visited Rove in early 2003, when the GOP strategist was a top White House adviser.

According to excerpts obtained Friday by The Associated Press in advance of the book's release, it turned out to be an awkward visit.

Not only did Rove tell Schwarzenegger the recall election that ousted Democrat Gray Davis would not happen, he introduced the actor to then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice as his pick to run for California governor in 2006.

Schwarzenegger felt snubbed.

He asks, "How could Rove have been so wrong?"


More blah blah blah here:

http://www.myfoxal.com/story/19663775/schwarzenegger-maid-affair-was-stupidest-thing

[rfranklin]

1. Ahnuld fluffing himself...

What ahunk of steaming junk.

[Lint Head]

2. Meanwhile, "I'll be Bach!"

[underpants]

3. "How could Rove have been so wrong?"

[David Zephyr]

4. Arnold didn't need Rove, he had Ken Lay and Enron help him.

And they did.

[ellisonz]

5. +1

What a crock of shit that whole boat was - still

[David Zephyr]

6. Arnold and Ken Lay met at the Beverly Hills Hotel During the "Gray Outs"

ellisonz, my sentiments precisely.

Yep, that was yet another election stolen to add to the list.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021409901

[ellisonz]

7. So much hypocrisy and treachery...

...I really don't know where to start with his lying. He wasted years that California could not afford to lose. We are worse off because of him.

Gray Davis was a decent honorable man and they put a knife in his back.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Wow. So Rove DOESN'T know everything. And he was going to put Rice on the path to the presidency.

He got Bush in as TX governor, early on with the purpose of making him President. Sounds like he was going to do the same for Rice.

The first woman President. The first black President. Rove was right that the country would soon be ready to have someone other than a white male. But boy was he wrong about Ahnold and Davis.