Gov. Schwarzenegger Makes Top Liberal List

I stumbled on this by accident. Last week I mentioned the UK Telegraph's listing of the top 100 most influential U.S. conservatives, and I happened to glance at their listing of top 100 most influential U.S. liberals. Bill Clinton leads the list, but I found a disturbing entry at #8:

8. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Governor of California

Leaving him off the conservative list was a difficult decision but Schwarzenegger’s defiance of Republican orthodoxy and move towards California liberalism leaves him better placed to influence the liberal sphere. Even unstinting Schwarzenegger support of a Rudy Giuliani general election campaign in California would be unlikely to deliver the state to Republicans. His marriage to Maria Shriver took him into the Kennedy clan.

As an Austrian-born immigrant, the former body builder and action movie star is barred from the presidency, though he has not ruled out a run for the US Senate in 2010 if Barbara Boxer retires. Schwarzenegger’s actions to combat global warming have prompted an alliance with Tony Blair and are likely lead to his working more closely with Al Gore. For any Democrat entering the Oval Office, one of the first calls will be to Schwarzenegger.

Also appearing on the liberal list is #23 Colin Powell an #25 NY GOP Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
And no liberal list would be complete without the wackiest of the antiwar loons, including Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin (Code Pink), Michael Moore, Barbara Streisand, and the founders of MoveOn.org and DailyKos. That's not really great company for the governator to be in.