jerry springer was planning on running for US Senate. He has backed out of the idea. I don't know why. I personally think he was an excelent candidate. I mean, yeah, he has a sleazy talk show, but he has said himself that he is not the show, it's his job, hosting a sleazy talk show doesnt make you one of the hicks that come on it and scream at their wife/husband/uncle/sister/cousin/friend etc...
anyways....i do believe he actually would have been really good. i like his politics. he is very left wing and is against tax cuts. he wants america to have better health insurance. here is some stuff from and interview on CNN.com [click here]

COLLINS: All right, well, let's take a minute to talk about the people that you are trying to reach. You have said that you want to represent a constituency that has remained neglected, talking particularly earlier about the lower and middle class. But some people say those are the exact kind of people that you take advantage of, if you will, on your show.

SPRINGER: Yes, well, I totally disagree. ... I don't think we take advantage of people. I am hired to do a show about people involved in crazy situations, outrageous situations or people who are outrageous. I defy you to watch my show and tell me that those people are not outrageous. They are. That's what I'm doing.

It's just like you do your show. You do a show on news. You do a show about people committing horrible crimes. Does that mean that you're a horrible person, that you endorse these crimes? No, that's what your job is.

My job is to be an entertainer and to do a show about outrageous people.

COLLINS: Clearly our news show is quite different than your show.

SPRINGER: Doing your show is different? I did the news for 10 years, believe me. ... It's entertainment, sure. But ... it's a voluntary show. ... No one goes on that show that doesn't desperately want to go on it and get to talk about the issues they want to talk about.

On the news, however ... people don't get on the news voluntarily. You do stories every single day on people ... and you never say if this story hurts you or this story embarrasses you or this story hurts your career or this story humiliates your family, we won't run it. No, you go, "Whoa, this is a great story. We're going to do it anyway." So I don't think that honestly in the news business, we can be looking at entertainment shows and say, "Oh, boy, look how bad they are."

But anyway, let me just say this one thing, please. My show, whatever you think about it -- and I think it's a stupid show. I've always said that. But my show didn't shut down one factory. It didn't send us into Iraq. It didn't deny people health insurance.

In other words, it has nothing to do with the issues that confront people in their lives today. They just want a chance of making it, and that's what politics ought to be about.

Springer actually used to be a governor or mayor or something. I know he was involved in politics. He is a lot smarter than he sometimes comes off on his sleezy show, and I agree he would make a good senator. It would just be hard for him to win because most people can't look past the TV show.

Didn't a wrestler become a governor or a mayor or something?

Yeah Jesse Ventura.....people in Cali get to hear about it all the time right now since people are trying to recall our governor and Arnold Schwartzinager decided to run to be the new one if our governor gets tossed out.

Anyways this is about Springer.

So how liberal left is this guy?

Arnold Swazenager (sp?) is doing something in poitics as well I think.

jerry springer in charge of the world-i don't know whether to be afraid or amused.................

i also heard that anna nicole smith is thinking of running...her and arnold dont seem like they would be good politicians to me....
i actually think springer would be good though

I think shwartzengger would be a good candidate. He helped in the special olympics and hes promising more money to healthcare. Thats fine...

But ANNA NICOLE!? Oh, anyone but her.....

schwarzenegger(or however the hell u spell it)-

foreign
good record
good body
charitable
genuinely nice guy.

Anna Nicloe Smith-

ex-playgirl
bright blue eyeshadow up to her brows
huge tacky knockers
has her own dating show to help her find a guy whos "genuinely interested in her" yeah-not that they're interested in her boobs or anything..........

well i doubt theyre interested in her policies on domestic taxes ...

Allow me to do it faster:

Anna nicole smith -

braindead

Well, as a citizen of Ohio, I'd like to say, meh. He deals w/ stuff all the time that Senators get caught doing every once in a while. Makes sense to me that way. Dunno if I like the idea of him having real governmental power though.

Ahnold isn't the only one running in Califa for gov.
Gary Coleman (black midget), Larry Flynt (founder of Hustler), Gallagher (the watermellon smasher), Gov. Davis himself is trying to get on the ballot (lol wtf??) and Arrianna Huffington (a syndicated columnist <3).
It's like a circus carnival out here.

It is like a circus.....however arnold was seriously considering it before the recall came into play, now entering the race just makes him look like another @ss.

all we need it a young kid to run. they have the best ideas. like everyone should get ice cream everyday. now if that aint a good idea wat is?

dude,no offence,does California have anyone with any sense?????!!!!!

Lordy lor... if only that happened over here! Italy had Cicciolina in the 90's, an I remember Clint Eastwood bein mayor of Carmel one time...

An it's spelt "Schwarzenegger". Blame his name on his Austrian heritage!

I thought, goin swiftly back on topic, that Jerry made a damn good job of explainin himself in such a nasty bout of questionin... I bet he'd face our Jeremy Paxman an not break a sweat! Plus, the earlier Springer shows were great (before they got all the "trailer trash" sort involved; dunno what that means, but I read it once...) I saw one he did on racism, an he interviewed a girl who was anti-semetic. He said to her "But I'm of a Jewish family, does that mean you hate me?", an she replied "Yes". He asked why, an she came out wi the same propaganda bullshit that Hitler had used 40 years earlier. This girl was nine. NINE!!! erm... spot the brainwashin goin on there! Those old shows were pretty gritty then, not like now...

Oh, an fer the record, Anna Nicole Smith is a spoilt, stuck-up, plastic tittied munter who has little talent, no redeemin features, an couldn't even marry fer money properly - last I heard, she got next to bugger all from Howard Marshall's estate!!

now that sharon osbourne's getting her own talkshow,i think she'd make a wicked Governor ooooops governess!

anyone agree/

They live on a major fault line by choice.

Erm... Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Jarry Springer's earlier political career ended by a scandal involving a prostitute and a personal cheque?

What, Sharon?? Oh yeah... anyone who can put up wi Oz all this time must have summat goin fer them!

yes commie, because only californians live on fault lines, and everyspot on california is a part of the fault line

Thank you Democracy: The God that failed.

Yes, they do have sense. Several of them post here.

Living in a neighboring state of California, a lot of Californians inevitably move up here. I would wager that at least 1/4 to 1/3 of my best friends were born in California. They all had perfectly good sense. And none of them were Californian stereotypes (they do exist, they just aren't the sort of people I hang out with)

You cannot be serious about Sharon Osbourne for govenor. She has about as much political knowledge as my 3 year old cousin (I would even vote for Jerry Springer above her).

As for living on a major fault line by choice, Shui stated my thoughts rather nicely (and yay for sarcasm! ).

hey righteous I have a question for you - just how many hours of sleep do you lose at night sitting in your room awake and afraid that the government is going to storm into your house? How many of your friends and family have disappeared due to secret government raids at night? (If you can actually name people, were they taken by the police for a crime?)
Dude, for all the smack you talk about the US and systems like it, there's no other place I'd rather live and while it ain't perfect it's worth fixing.

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cuz i talk like a truck driver and never realize it

Well, I do lose sleep occasionally worrying about the fascist society my children are going to live in and I've had friends that have been carted away in America's pointless-ass war on drugs. THat's not exactly secret, but they were taken unjustly.

And I, too, feel the US is worth fixing. Just in a much different manner that you do.

he shoulda lol... that woulda been funny

well, gary coleman and arnold schar (Schwarzenegger Fuzzra)---forget trying to spell his last name are running, so have fun laughing at that!