http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/09/the-governator.html The comments strained his already fractured relationship with GOP lawmakers to the point that Assembly Republicans wore name tags to a meeting with Schwarzenegger about the state budget impasse this afternoon.
On to national politics, Schwarzenegger labeled the delegates at the two presidential conventions as “the most hard-core individuals.” Though he ended up skipping the Republican convention, he said GOP organizers had wanted him to deliver a biographical speech about nominee John McCain so he wouldn’t “go and talk about centrist politics and maybe rub some people the wrong way.”
Offering an example of such a comment, Schwarzenegger said he respects Democratic nominee Barack Obama, whose candidacy is “a giant leap forward” for the country. “I think it’s incredible that a black man has the chance to become president of the United States,” he said. Still, he would never switch to the Democrats “in this life, and definitely not in my next life, or the life after that.”
After all, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, is “a good-looking woman,” who is “feisty,” Schwarzenegger said, wondering aloud “if there might not be something else discovered about her life that can be used against her.”