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Arnold Event Video (43mb)
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It should be mentioned that this was far from my best video. In fact, thanks to my poor position among the crowd, photography was downright poor. Nonetheless, I wanted to share a vital moment in the Arnold campaign with my viewers, and thi was the only way to do it.
The speech was great. The marching band was great. The whole experience was amazing. And the crowd just loved Arnold. I think he could have read the phone book and people would have cheered him.
ARNOLD: "David Dennis, Woodland Hills, California!"
CROWD (simutaneously):
ARNOLD ARNOLD ARNOLD
WE LOVE YOU ARNOLD!
WILD CHEERS!
What Arnold said, though, was really slick and well thought out.
He said California a great state, and that it had been seriously damaged by events of the last five years, and who can dispute that?
He said that we had to determine the exact nature of our runaway spending through an audit, and find out where to cut.
After almost every line, the crowd roared his approval. It was obvious that they loved BOTH Arnold and his message.
I was thinking that the talk was remarkably without substance, but the broad audience obviously didn't care. They were here to see Arnold, here to see someone ready, willing and able to tackle the tough problems, and I'll be darned if that 's not exactly what they saw.
In short, if you want a real leader who's not going to take any nonsense from anybody, you want Arnold for Governor.
Tom McClintock, wonderful man that he is, spent a decade in the wilderness saying that the state was plunging headlong in the wrong direction. But nobody listened to his cries of the word "STOP!".
If Tom became Governor, his inability to compromise is going to make it impossible for him to push legislation. He has never signed on to a budget. He has always been a gadfly. He's a great gadfly, and I salute him for it -- but he's not Governor.
That's Arnold's job.
Now, if Arnold was expousing positions like Bustamante, I'd call him a highly dangerous man and work as hard as any of you to try to turn this around. But Arnold has largely absorbed McClintock's economic program, down to the instant repeal of the car tax.
On social issues, he's tough for many of us to swallow - but he's not being elected to resolve social issues, which are unresolvable in any event. He's being elected to fix our budget, and I'm convinced that he will.
I hope you enjoy my rally video!