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1. #1
   On January 17th, 2011 at 4:16 pm, malkin_fan said:

   And what did he cost the state?

2. #2
   On January 17th, 2011 at 4:27 pm, in_awe said:

   He made clear his opinion that his best accomplishment was the legislation that will limit carbon use and “global warming gases” in CA which has been independently analyzed to create many BILLIONS of lost income and hundreds of thousands of lost jobs in CA as it is implemented. Because CA has to show the world how to be green. Idiot.

   It reminds me of Obama’s whining about how hard it is to be President and how there is so much to do. Any sentient being would know that ahead of time – you ran for it, you won, now shut and deal with it. Sheesh.

3. #3
   On January 17th, 2011 at 4:31 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

   I think he is vastly over-rating his box office appeal these days. No one wants to see and old and flabby Arnold spouting ignorant monosyllabic dialogue. The reason the original Terminator was vastly superior to the sequels despite improving story lines and better and better FX was because Arnold hardly spoke in the original. Today, he could be replaced by a much better CG replica.

   There is about as much interest among movie goers for seeing an old Arnold today as there is for seeing an old Brigitte Bardot.

4. #4
   On January 17th, 2011 at 4:33 pm, CrazyFool said:

   Wow he flew home every day?

   Boy I bet his arms were tired!

   Oh you don’t mean that kind of flying? But surely he did so under his own power to cut down on CO2 right? Right?

5. #5
   On January 17th, 2011 at 4:42 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

   Maybe $200 million is the going price for being governor. Meg Whitman spent $160 million and lost. He may have overpaid but $200 million is probably close to the optimum number.

6. #6
   On January 17th, 2011 at 5:16 pm, NeoFan said:

   He may be right on the numbers. I can never watch him again.

7. #7
   On January 17th, 2011 at 5:32 pm, MTConservative said:

   Ah-nold would never make it in the Obama Administration. There is only room enough for one big ego over there.

8. #8
   On January 17th, 2011 at 5:33 pm, GladzKravtz said:

   political legacy

   He was one big disappointment.

9. #9
   On January 17th, 2011 at 5:43 pm, AlohaGuy said:

   Speaking about how much time Schwarzenegger had to spend away from his family

   Yeah, they wouldn’t want to move to be near his work would they?

10. #10
    On January 17th, 2011 at 5:44 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    I tried to fly home every evening.”

    Thanks for using the oil – PS – did you get “frisked” every time?

11. #11
    On January 17th, 2011 at 6:28 pm, swede said:

    Well, $200 mil is a small price to pay to serve the state that made you rich and famous – and only 1% of the $20 bil deficit Califunnya rang up on your watch. You got off cheap, champ.

12. #12
    On January 17th, 2011 at 6:35 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 17th, 2011 at 4:33 pm, CrazyFool said:
    Wow he flew home every day?

    Boy I bet his arms were tired!

    Nah…he borrowed Pelosi’s broom.

13. #13
    On January 17th, 2011 at 6:36 pm, Major O said:

    He made clear his opinion that his best accomplishment was the legislation that will limit carbon use

    And yet he flew home every night when he could? (And that no doubt included his security detail as well.)

14. #14
    On January 17th, 2011 at 6:36 pm, Trollman said:

    During his eight years in office, Schwarzenegger and family scraped by on their savings, his governor’s salary, and contributions collected from good samaritans who sent money in return for Arnold’s promise to never make a sequel to Jingle All the Way.

    Hey! I actually liked Jingle All the Way.

15. #15
    On January 17th, 2011 at 6:38 pm, love2rumba said:

    During his eight years in office, Schwarzenegger and family scraped by on their savings, his governor’s salary, and contributions collected from good samaritans who sent money in return for Arnold’s promise to never make a sequel to Jingle All the Way.

    My response:..sniff,sniff (fake tears welling)

16. #16
    On January 17th, 2011 at 7:03 pm, madshark said:

    During his eight years in office, Schwarzenegger and family scraped by on their savings, his governor’s salary, and contributions collected from good samaritans…

    Come on, he married into the Kennedy family!! Surely that provided him with some additional income… (because they surely don’t qualify as good samaritans).

    Never saw Terminator, but I rented and enjoyed “Kindergarten Cop.”

17. #17
    On January 17th, 2011 at 7:03 pm, DarleenClick said:

    Arnold was a sore disappointment as Gov. I voted for him with high hopes after getting Davis out. But the first time he lost his pet propositions he folded like a cheap suit.

    HOWEVER, let’s set the record straight – Arnold never accepted the governor’s salary during any of the 8 years (and the salary is $175,000 a year).

18. #18
    On January 17th, 2011 at 7:05 pm, DarleenClick said:

    PS I liked True Lies.

19. #19
    On January 17th, 2011 at 7:12 pm, vickisoup said:

    Trollman, NOOOOOOO! “Jingle All the Way” was, without a doubt, the WORST movie I’ve ever seen. I shudder…SHUDDER…each time I think about it. Horrible. Ghastly. I have no more words.
    

20. #20
    On January 17th, 2011 at 7:20 pm, letget said:

    I might have cost you 200 arnald, but I bet wifee did good seeing to it all is well! The good ole boys have a way to getter done. Good ole boys kids do too! I doubt you will, arnald, will be in the food stamp line. Millions in your state will.
    L

21. #21
    On January 17th, 2011 at 7:23 pm, sbw999 said:

    My $10.00 check is in the mail to him; poor guy.

22. #22
    On January 17th, 2011 at 7:39 pm, tbear44 said:

    Serving as California governor cost Arnold Schwarzenegger at least $200 million, the bodybuilding star turned actor and politician told a newspaper in his native Austria, insisting ‘it was more than worth it.”

    Does he speak Austrian?

23. #23
    On January 17th, 2011 at 8:40 pm, stoptheinvasion said:

    the real issue is WHAT DID HE COST US, THE TAXPAYING, CONSTANTLY ASSAULTED CITIZENS OF CALIFORNIA WHO STILL HAVE JOBS? OR THOSE WHO DON’T NOW?

    this fake is a fraud from the word Go, what a disgrace. if anyone should be tarred and feathered it’s this horrible loser who has run our state further into the leftist hands. a global warming fraud. reducing a murderer’s sentence secretly in his final hours.

    few have done more damage to any state than this fraud did to ours.

24. #24
    On January 17th, 2011 at 8:50 pm, cicerokid said:

    Arnie was at his best pulling a GPS out of his nose before a trip to Mars.

25. #25
    On January 17th, 2011 at 9:10 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Arnold: I’ll be back!

    Gee I hope not.

26. #26
    On January 17th, 2011 at 11:08 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    On January 17th, 2011 at 7:12 pm, vickisoup said:

    Trollman, NOOOOOOO! “Jingle All the Way” was, without a doubt, the WORST movie I’ve ever seen. I shudder…SHUDDER…each time I think about it. Horrible. Ghastly. I have no more words.
    

    Vickie, have you seen Revenge of the Red Baron? It’s one of those movies that is **so** bad, that it’s mesmerizing. You know that Tobey Maguire has nightmares over this one.

27. #27
    On January 17th, 2011 at 11:21 pm, Sichiban said:

    Schwarzenegger: Governorship Cost Me $200 Million”

    Too stinkin’ bad. That’s a tiny fraction of what he cost California.

28. #28
    On January 18th, 2011 at 12:47 am, fighterDC said:

    as a conservative who was always weary of Arnie (as a pol), let me remind the GOP Republicans not to jump so quickly onto the bandwagon of “Republican” politicians. Too many times we’ve heard the “so and so for President” mantra before people are proven in office. Arnold is one (there were Republicans supporting changing the constitution for him if I remember correctly), Scott Brown, and others who said some popular things but hadn’t yet proven themselves as capable, conservative leaders.

    Conservatives are desperate for a true conservative leader, but too often “we” fall into the 24-hr news cycle marketing of candidates who do not deserve such fervent support so immediately.

    These pols must be thinking, “why buy the cow if the milk is free?”

29. #29
    On January 18th, 2011 at 9:03 am, thejim said:

    CA voters should feel badly about what they cost por’ole arnuld, arnul doesn’t feel badly about what he cost CA.

30. #30
    On January 18th, 2011 at 12:08 pm, happy2behere said:

    Bummer.

31. #31
    On January 18th, 2011 at 12:50 pm, Hangfire said:

    ***WARNING***

    Do not EVAH see Ahnold’s first movie, Hercules in New York.

    It’s a wonder he was allowed to live after this movie, much less make any more.

    Makes “Big Top Pee-Wee” look like “Gone with the Wind.”

32. #32
    On January 18th, 2011 at 1:06 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Do not EVAH see Ahnold’s first movie, Hercules in New York.

    It’s a wonder he was allowed to live after this movie, much less make any more.

    I’ve often thought this about many of our recent movie stars. Back in the days of the great studios, many would consider themselves lucky if they were allowed to appear in “C” movies as extras…Ahnold would’ve had a career of playing one of Emperor Ming’s henchmen.

33. #33
    On January 18th, 2011 at 3:46 pm, Wade said:

    What did Arnold Kennedy cost taxpayers current and future?

34. #34
    On January 18th, 2011 at 3:51 pm, wckelly60 said:

    It may have cost him 200 million bucks, but at least we didn’t have to see Last Action Hero II or End of Days Part Deux.

35. #35
    On January 18th, 2011 at 5:49 pm, Brett Buck said:

    Arnold wasn’t a great governor, but consider what we had before. And after, for that matter. By those standards he was a genius.

36. #36
    On January 19th, 2011 at 4:41 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Ahnold was no Ronald Reagan. Sorry, California. But, the voters there support Jerry Brown (from bad to worse?) well, I don’t know what to say…

37. #37
    On February 11th, 2011 at 5:29 pm, astonerii said:

    I hope it costs him his entire career. it is not like he was ever a good actor, he just happened to be in the right place at the right time with a drug induced oversized body. Every movie he was ever in was written specifically to conform with his inability to act.