What would happen if Arnold Schwartzenegger became president of the US?
359536
America has a bad enough reputation, and if that Nazi takes over its going to get worse!!!\n\nit would just show how ridiculously stupid the American people are to vote a German steroid freek actor to be their president
905139
The current president (lame duck) would finish his term and the Vice president would assume the presidency. Since this has never happened before, I'm sure someone would try to get a new election in progress.
867411
Lazy Liberalism will destroy America. America will decline due to a disapearance of our morals and work ethic. Americans will become lazy and decadent, and America will turn into a socialist state. This is already happening. \n\nAmericans will just want to have sex and take drugs.
476337
You must be a naturally born citizen to be president. Thus there is no way save a constitutional amendment that Gov. schwarzennegger can become president.\n\nUS Constitution, Article II, Section 1\n\nNo person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
944519
Yes. talk about awakening the sleeping giant, the next two years will shock and awe Americans back into reality. and then we can move forward with a republican president like Rudy.
941229
Considering he made the vow when coming into office, he would bring the most ethical administration....  think the founding fathers would be either laughing or frowning.
1173502
It would be EXTREMELY intruiging, however, it will most likely not happen.\n\nA true kickback to the greatness of the Clinton Era.
758311
Hitler would be a conservative Republican today. He would have a good chance of being the GOP presidential nominee.
962065
You will not get an honest answer for this question. PC is what you'll get.\n\nRealistically. that's not going to happen anytime soon in USA. He'll not make it that far because he'll be assassinated when he's nominated.
863345
Wow! Nice insightful question. \nAs President I would:\n1 bring the troops home to protect are boarders, nuclear power plants and public transportation.\n2 I would have a legitimate team of people investigate the Bush administration.\n3 I would try to pass a law that would require all non emergency government vehicles be hybrids.\n4 I would sit down with a group of teachers and discuss what can be done to fix our educational program. (Teachers not administrator who have never stepped one foot in a class room.)\n5 I would work with doctors, nurses and insurance companies to provide a nation wide health care program.\n6 to take further steps in the environment I would offer huge tax breaks to people who buy a hybrid car that year.\n7 yes I would probably raise taxes for a little while (we have no chose now that this admin has put us in so much dept that we owe more then this country is worth.)\n8 I would offer tax breaks to those companies who produce more hybrid vehicles then regular, I would also add in a stipulation that any car that exceeds 55 mpg in the city would qualify\n9 I would legalize marijuana, place regulations on its growers and tax it.\n10 I would try like hell to pass a law that would not allow a company that has taken American jobs out of the USA and put them in a foreign Country to import those products back into America. (I say try because God knows this is going to be tough to get through congress.)\n11 This one should be higher on the list but I just remembered (duh) I would raise the minimum wage to $9.50 per hour.\n12 I would try to pass a law that any company who lies off more then 50 workers in a year will not be eligible for any tax breaks\n13 I would start showing up regularly to natal to talk to other world leaders and there representatives.\n14 I would work with colleges and universities to find a way to make state colleges and universities free to the public.\n15 I would take a major pay cut\n16 I would offer a huge tax break for the first car company to make all there vehicles environmentally friendly.\n17 I would try to push through a law that will place harsher punishment on crimes and that anyone in prison will be required to work for the state on clean up crews. (No free meals! No cable TV you earn your keep)\n That is for starters!
361267
I would pass a law to make me EMPEROR! Than I would destroy all religions, legalize all drugs, make everyone pay a flat-unavoidable tax, end free trade policies, leave the middle-east to their own fate, develop alternative energies -including nuclear, have a universal health-care system, set-up a minefield between the US and Mexico, make all drug manufacturers who get a subsidy from the government for researching new drugs (that would include all of them) sell those drugs at a reasonable price, and put Donald Rumsfeld in prison for his incompetence in managing the military!\n\nYeah, and then I'd sit back, drink a Heineken and admire my awesome accomplishments.
544712
If he were alive today, he'd be considered a fundamentalist Christian crackpot right-wing extremist, and be severely assailed and mauled in the media, by the Democrats and by most of the GOP.\n\nOnly those who care about the Constitution would vote for him and support him.
48104
I dont think so, but he eventually became chief justice of the supreme court...he never really wanted to be president, however his bid for election for a second term was disrupted by his predecessor and the bull-moose party
132968
I'd put a new president in the White House.  Preferably one with actual knowledge of what the nation and the world is going through.  And also a new Senate, a new Congress, and new Supreme Court judges.
19670
Nothing!! He would of only made our situation worse concerning terrorism. If you remember he was in Vietnam, but also was a protester along side Jane Fonda! Too liberal!!
747355
The Republican Party would have to dump the extreme right wingers and move to the center very quickly.  \n\nHe was only the mayor of New York, which is a big job, but not a governor nor senator.  That puts him at a big disadvantage. \n\n If you listen to him speak, he says, "I think this, and I think that."  I never vote for people who say they "think."  I vote for people who know the subject matter and know exactly what their position is.
36357
He came up through the KGB and he has close ties to the oligarchs.  If he were an American president, he would probably be impeached and thrown in jail.  \n\nWhether he is "good" probably depends on whether his replacement would be worse.