Dirty tricksThe Los Angeles Times has a front page story on six women who accuses Arnold Schwarzenegger of touching them sexually. What a coincidence! The Times just happen to come up with this story five days before the election! It almost as if they time the story to maximize the damage to Arnold, doesn't it? [Why didn't they release it on election day?--ed. Mickey Kaus has the answer, written yesterday before the story hit: "Tomorrow would be about the logical last day for the Los Angeles Times to drop its bomb on Arnold Schwarzenegger. If editor John Carroll waits any longer it will look like a late hit designed to stampede the electorate."] Kaus says this won't be fatal to Arnold, and I agree. Here's why: the two groups of people most likely to have a lesser opinion of Arnold because of this story are feminists and social conservatives. Most feminists aren't going to vote for Republicans anyway, but this type of story might have persuaded some social conservatives from not showing up to vote for a Republican in a normal election. This election, however, is different because the presence of Tom McClintock. The voters this story is designed to dissuade from voting for Arnold wasn't going to vote for him anyway. So at worst Arnold will lose a few votes to McClintock, but not enough to put him behind Bustamente. |
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