Flex Appeal

Amid this whole Schwarzenegger lovefest, in which the governor is cast in the media as a kind of Jolly Green Giant out to rescue environmentalism from itself, the Los Angeles Times runs an inevitable reality check, reporting that Arnold's score with the League of Conservation Voters comes in at a lackluster 50, down 8 points from the two years previous, and well below his predecessor, Gray Davis, who racked up scores of 85 and 75 in his last two years in office. Of course, picayune criticisms like these miss the point; namely, Gray Davis is a slope-shouldered pencil-neck with zero charisma, whereas Schwarzenegger can bench press a Hummer.