In keeping with the precepts of a wide-open recall election, the bar should be lower, allowing more candidates. Ten percent seems arbitrary.

I expect those second-tier candidates dogpaddling at four-percent will stage something of their own. And I would also expect that such an event of the second tier players would still do better than US Open Tennis.

Hannity appeared on Good Morning America and praised Arnold. When asked by Clare Shipman about Arnold's history of womanizing, Hannity replied that, hey, this was 30 years ago and we should not go after politicians for what they did 30 years ago.
Somehow, I doubt that Hannity and Limbauch and the rest of them hold the same for, say, Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The sex part is a non-issue for Schwarzenegger because it's so hard to imagine a Californian who will be shocked to learn that someone who spent hours a day working on his muscles in the 70s and then became a movie star might have had an active sex life. It's like learning that a photographer banged one of his teenage models-- no! I thought they went into that business for love of art!

Republicans are desperate for power and energized by the idea of actually "winning" a campaign in this state. So they've decided it's better to be a hypocrite than to have a Democrat in the governorship. It's the same decision feminists/liberals made when choosing to support Bill Clinton despite numerous allegations of abuse, including one allegation of rape. And they also chose to ignore the vicious tactics used by the Clinton campaign to demonize his accusers. Such is politics.