Schwarzenegger Gives Way

By the time Arnold Schwarzenegger achieved victory in California and became governor, the world had already renounced and made clever conjectures about the political capacity of an actor. Ronald Reagan, president of the U.S. between 1981 and 1989, had demonstrated years before that he was able to govern and commit the same errors as the rest. Now, after his second term in office, Schwarzenegger abandons politics and is not about to divulge his plans, which, as pointed out, could range from a return to film to returning to work for Obama in the environmental field. He could also dedicate himself to the businesses that made him a millionaire years ago. Ultimately, this 60-year-old that maintains a rotund and muscular physique that catapulted him to his starring roles in “Conan” and “Terminator” has all the possibilities open to return to any of his many activities.

His profile, previously that of a coarse and blunt strongman, has become more diverse over the years.

Republicans blame him for giving California over to the Democrats and leaving the prosperous state, already in difficulties when he came to office in 2003, in bankruptcy and with an unemployment level (12.4 percent) higher than half of the country. Schwarzenegger blames such bad figures on the global crisis. In any case, he leaves with low popularity and scarce results from his plan against the deficit and his policy of tax reduction. For the rest, he has shown himself to be unclassifiable — perhaps to be expected for a Republican allied with the Kennedys in charge of the Democratic stronghold that California has always been.

Schwarzenegger is Republican and has signed with a hand of steel the death sentences that have come across his desk, but he has also positioned himself for the legalization of homosexual marriage, financing stem cell research, approving an ambitious plan for the reduction of greenhouse gases and the legalization (unsuccessfully) of marijuana. The Governator, as he was called by his followers, has not been an anti-Democratic scourge that perhaps his physique forebode. This role will be played now by another California politician with a less intimidating appearance. His name is Darrell Issa, and he promises to be the new Terminator.