In Addition To Being A Big Fat Idiot ...

I agree! He's irrelevant

After repeatedly being asked about his conservative critics, including talk show host Rush Limbaugh, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped his diplomatic veneer Tuesday and declared their views irrelevant to his work in California.

"All irrelevant. Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant. I am not his servant," the governor said on NBC's "Today" show.

Limbaugh then declared on his radio program that Schwarzenegger, lacking the communications skills to persuade Californians of his Republican values, had sold them out.

"If he had the leadership skills to articulate conservative principles and win over the public as [former President] Reagan did, then he would have stayed conservative," said Limbaugh, who is often seen as the embodiment of all conservative viewpoints.

Uh, yeah ... People loved the President with Alzheimer's (and I knew something wasn't right with Reagan long before he left office) the way they love dumb Dubya. That says a lot about that crowd.

The tiff marked Schwarzenegger's most high-profile repudiation of a conservative critic. Many fellow Republicans view his support of stem-cell research, mandatory curbs on carbon dioxide emissions and universal healthcare as a betrayal of his party's ideals.

In the NBC interview, Schwarzenegger said he was "the people's servant of California. What they call me — Democrat or Republican or in the center, this and that — that is not my bottom line. This is for them to talk about."

Limbaugh said in an interview after his radio show that Schwarzenegger's recent agreements with Democrats in the Legislature "are not compromises, they are capitulations."

The governor, he said, may have been "just tired of answering questions about me, and he wanted to say … 'I don't work for Rush Limbaugh, I work for the people of California.' "

Even though I went to the polls with a mallet to knock down all of those proposed initiatives during the Governator's special election, I must say that after he got his butt kicked, he changed his tune drastically and became a Governor who listened to the people - not a servant of his narrow party. I still didn't vote to re-elect him last November but I knew he was going to win and was okay with it. So, ditto on the irrelevancy of Rush Limbaugh and every other ridiculous blow hard with no real input.