Bulworth v. The Terminator

Warren Beatty took on the Governor at a commencement speech at UC Berkeley last weekend and said he could do a better job than Arnold at governing California. While Beatty did not say he was planning on running, when answering reporters' questions immediately following the ceremony, Beatty said that he "was not ruling out" a run for governor.

The text of his speech can be found by clicking here.

Many are excited by him running and by his platform. Leftinsf.com agrees. Go Bulworth!

Here is an excerpt from his speech and a platform we should all get behind.

Bipartisanship? We don't have it here. And let's not mistake the exploitation of the name of one of the greatest liberal families in American history for bipartisanship. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Governor, you're no Kennedy Democrat.

Stop trying to milk the illusion of bi-partisanship. You are a conservative Republican who likes to have a few Democrats around for show. This is good advice.

Do I think Arnold will eventually take it? I think so.

Of course he can joke that I want to defend the nurses because I'm closer to needing one, and the elderly because I'm nearer to being one, and the blind because I can't see past tax-and-spend liberalism. And then I can joke that he should defend the teachers because he has so much to learn, but finally it's not funny.

Government is not a joke, and despite what he's said, it's not a movie.

But he'll have to listen. He's not stupid. He knows I'm a private citizen just as he was a year ago. I'm an opponent of his muscle-bound conservatism, with a longer experience in politics than he has, and although I don't want to run for governor, I'd do one helluva lot better job than he's done. But I can name you lots of Democrats that would be so much better than I would, and maybe even a few Republicans.

As a Southern Baptist in Virginia I was taught that good public policy was "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

I was taught "Love one another" was the point.

Good public policy for our economy, our culture and our safety will never fully exist without:

First, public financing of elections.

Second, assuring the separation of church and state.

Third, creating a single-payer universal health care system: Medicare for all.

Fourth, facing the value to the rich and the rest of a just redistribution of our enormous wealth with our tax policy. Concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

And fifth: moderating against the dangers of the muscular utopianism of an empire that imposes what some call democracy on places in the world where it cannot be sustained and will lead to American decline.

Good public policy in a social democracy declares that might does not make right. Denial of this leads to totalitarianism, communism or fascism. Our silence is an anti-inflammatory, a steroid for bullies.

Bullies are basically cowards.