At one point during his gubernatorial campaign, when things were really gearing up for the great battle, he looked into the camera and talk about how on such and such date when he is sitting in the governor's chair, it reminded me about a part in Pumping Iron, and correct me if I'm wrong since it's been over 15 years since I saw it, when he said that before a contest, in his mind he had already won. It's already happened. Like he had some sort of vision and now, and this is what stuck with me, and now, it was just a matter of going through the motions. I recall something to the effect where he called his mother and said that he had won. He did this before the show even took place!
After he made that claim on camera, that his winning was already a done deal, he pretty much stopped campaigning and began acting like the governor-elect. Setting up a cabinet, talking policy, etc.... His opponents derided him for his arrogance and ego. But I thought back to that episode in Pumping Iron and wondered: Did he have that vision? Has it already been preordained? Is it now a matter of just "going through the motions?"
He didn't talk like that all during the campaign. Just at some point. Sometime after his debate on TV. I then recalled how when Arnold first got in the race one of the leaders of the California Democratic party said that Arnold was just an actor, just a muscle man, that politics is a whole different game. That this time he's in over his head. He doesn't know what he's in for. He doesn't know what he's getting into.
I then thought back when I first saw Arnold as a little boy on the cover of some muscle mag. How I stood there with my mouth open, bent over slightly, both hands resting on my knees peering through the window of the magazine store just staring at Arnold in disbelief. How incredible and unworldly he seemed. I still accepted him as human but he was also beyond that. He was at a different and much higher level of being a human being than the rest of us. I just studied him on that cover. I must have been about 8-9 years old. This was the cover:
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I then reflected on the words that that over weight political hack said about Arnold. "Arnold doesn't know what he's getting into." I chuckled and thought, "I don't think so Mr. Fat Girly Man, you don't know what you are getting into with a man like Arnold."