Arnold Gives Up on Reelection Bid

Well not officially, but he might as well have with this latest appointment:

California's Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named a Democrat in a same-sex marriage as his chief of staff on Wednesday in an apparent political shift on the heels of a major electoral defeat.

Susan Kennedy, 45, was the confidant and number two to ousted Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, whom Schwarzenegger beat in a bitter recall election in 2003. She married her lesbian partner in 1999.

"I love Susan, I think the world of her," Schwarzenegger told a news conference at the state capitol. "She is willing to take her Democratic philosophy aside and implement my vision."

Apparently Arnold has decided to give in to his inner liberal. I'm now fully expecting him to commute the sentence of Tookie Williams and finish off his political career once and for all.