Doh! Arnold calls GOP "losers" but won?t "read or lead" on dirty tricks

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Sometimes art imitates life. Or, in the case of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The Simpsons" lampoons his "leadership."

Take just one minute to watch this funny YouTube clip right now. You’ll see how incredibly prescient the new “Simpsons” movie is about Arnold's, er, "philosophy."

And, with only one day left to pressure Arnold before the California Republican Party convention this weekend, you’ll be able to tell him what you think about it as well:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/TellArnold

Last Friday, Courage Campaigner and blogger Julia Rosen delivered your 2,148 copies of the so-called "Presidential Election Reform Act" to Arnold’s Sacramento office. We asked you to flood his office with copies of this dangerous initiative and you delivered. It appears that your action helped to educate Arnold about what the New York Times is calling an “elaborate dirty trick” to steal 20 electoral votes from California for the Republican presidential nominee.

What does Arnold think about this destructive initiative? You might be surprised by what he said yesterday:
"I feel like if you, all the sudden in the middle of the game, start changing the rules it's kind of odd, it almost feels like a loser's mentality, saying I cannot win with those rules, so let me change the rules… I have not made up my mind yet in one way or the other, because I haven't seen the details on it."
"A loser’s mentality." You said it, Arnold.

You can tell Arnold what you think about of the dirty tricksters after watching his YouTube cameo in “The Simpsons” movie:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/TellArnold

Funny thing is, Arnold will be joining many of those “losers” tomorrow at the California Republican Party convention. And what are his Republican cronies doing to prevent this cynical ploy to change the rules, lock down the White House, and keep us in Iraq for another four years?

Planning to enthusiastically endorse it, of course.
Ron Nehring, the chair of the California Republican Party, called a potential endorsement a "significant step" and that the party could provide money or help gather signatures to qualify the measure <…>. The move for the California GOP to back the initiative before it has even qualified - or even reported a campaign contribution - was driven, in part by "the hyperventilating on the part of the Democrats.”

"Cynical ploy orchestrated by the blah blah blah," said Nehring. "The vitriol and overreaction from the Democrats caught a lot of people's attention from the party."

"Blah blah blah." You said it, Ron. Sounds like a "loser mentality," if you ask me.

Needless to say, Arnold Schwarzenegger is probably the only person in the world who can kill this radical right-wing coup in its cradle right now. If he wanted to, he could terminate it at this weekend’s Republican convention. Unfortunately, as the future of our country and the world hangs in the balance, Arnold is playing dumb while sitting on 2,148 copies of the initiatives you sent him to read.

Time is running out to kill this dirty trick dead. Please take just one minute to watch the YouTube video and tell Arnold right now that he needs to read and lead NOW:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/TellArnold

While Arnold dithers and dallies, our movement to defeat the dirty tricksters is growing stronger by the day. Nearly 10,000 Courage Campaign members have pledged their strong opposition to this radical right-wing power grab, including Sherry Lansing (former CEO, Paramount Pictures), Sal Rosselli (President, SEIU-UHW), Bradley Whitford ("The West Wing"), Arianna Huffington ("The Huffington Post"), Assembly Majority Leader Karen Bass, and L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti.

Now that Arnold has plenty of copies of the initiative – a document that only takes about five minutes to review – we need you to push him hard to “read or lead” right now.

No more dirty tricks. No more partisan power-grabs.

Not in California. Not in America.

http://www.couragecampaign.org/TellArnold

Thank you for everything you are doing to support our people-powered campaign for change.

Rick Jacobs
Chair
Courage Campaign

P.S. You are absolutely amazing! On Labor Day, we asked you to help us defeat this dirty trick by contributing "20 for 20" -- $20 dollars to save 20 electoral college votes – and building our netroots infrastructure by using ActBlue to process your small-dollar donations. In a little more than 48 hours, 352 of you have raised $9,781 (average donation: $27.79!). Due to its focus on small donations, ActBlue IS campaign finance reform.

Your amazing support helped Courage shoot to the top of the ActBlue “standings” as the third “hottest” group on the site. That’s great, but we’re not settling for number three. To keep up our community momentum and continue to build our movement, please dig deep and make a contribution in any amount you can afford. Help us kick this dirty trick to the curb right now:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/20for20onActBlue

... they are out to financially disrupt the Democrats.

Even if this measure doesn't pass, and it looks as if it won't, the Democrats have already put a good chunk of change into campaigning against it... a year before the next presidential election. He he raises the most in campaign funds generally wins, and the Republicans tend to take in more than the Democrats. Frankly, 20 electoral votes is nothing to get bent out of shape about when you have swing states like Ohio and Florida. It's about money, plain and simple.