Gray Davis crafts new image as lovable loser

[Kadie]

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
Last Updated 11:52 am PDT Thursday, June 3, 2004

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - "Oh, you'll appreciate this one," former California Gov. Gray Davis says of his latest exercise in self-deprecation.

The 61-year-old Davis, still casting about for a career after being booted from office by Arnold Schwarzenegger, appears in a new promotional spot CBS created for advertisers after Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" and other network problems. Davis appears commiserating with disgraced baseball star Pete Rose and other down-on-their-luck celebrities.

"You guys think you had a bad year?" Davis tells the group. "I was replaced by the guy who starred in 'Conan the Barbarian.'"

Last year was most definitely a bad one for Davis, who became just the second governor in U.S. history to be recalled by the voters.

But seven months later, Davis - a career politician known to most voters as a humorless, cardboard-stiff policy wonk - has exploited his own misfortune and crafted a funny new image as a lovable loser.

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[FleshCartoon]

1. I love his commercial...

...where he says he might take up acting as a second career. It's for some online job hunt site--don't remember which one.

[comradebillyboy]

2. correction---gray davis reinforces image as a loser

the gropenfurer arnold will never lose to davis. i suspect even the women arnold groped would not even vote for gray.

problem for the dems is arnold is an immensly likable guy who also projects confidence and competence. and he certainly is not a less competent governor than gray. he will be tough to beat, but he also wont do shit for either the california or national republican parties. arnold is a repuke, cuz its a convenient label. i like arnold -he is an old-fashioned republican, self-serving and non-ideological. a man anyone can do business with

[FleshCartoon]

3. Are you joking? I can't tell.

You're scaring me.

[CaliforniaLady]

4. Arnold could have run as a Democrat

If a Republican was in office at the time of the recall,
Arnold could have won as a Democrat.  

Things were just going too bad while Davis was in office.  
If things had been going well, I think Davis may have been in
the presidential primaries.