So, the governor wants to let the people decide on assisted suicide:

Sacramento — As lawmakers prepare to debate whether to legalize physician-assisted suicide in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday that the controversial issue should be decided by voters instead of politicians.
Schwarzenegger refused to describe how he feels personally about allowing doctors to help terminally ill people die and seemed to suggest he would be uncomfortable signing legislation that may land on his desk this year.
“I personally think it’s a decision that probably should go to the people, like the death penalty,” the governor said. “I think let the people of California make that decision. I don’t think that we, 120 legislators and I, should make that decision.”

The governor seemed very decisive in his movies (except my personal favorite Shwarzenegger movie: Total Recall, where he forgets who he is), a quality which seems to be failing him in politics.  He wants to leave this to voters? Well, what the governor does not apparently realize is that we, like the rest of the nation, and most of the free world, have a representative form of government.  That is why we call them leaders, rather than say, “listeners” or “pollsters” or “followers”.  Our leaders need to lead.

However, this is not what the Governator is doing right now.  Now, he is pursuing a course of trying to please everybody.  He spends time in Napa pretending to help rebuild from the floods, and doles out pork.  But when it actually comes to stating his own positions, his words fail him. He doesn’t want to piss anybody off.

And that’s the real problem with having a governor that’s out of step with his electorate and wants to win again.  He has to make EVERYBODY happy.  He can’t afford to upset any possible voter.  He already lost a big percentage of voters due to the fact that they are partisan Dems.  Contrast that to the Mayor of SF.  His approval rating is around 85% (Don’t have a link right now, but I can get one).  If he feels like pissing a few people off in the City, he can afford to do this. (Example: That stupid Cable car hubub that he got himself involved in…what’s up with that?)  Another example? Hillary Clinton…she’s cruising towards reelection, and moving away from her electorate (left) towards the national electorate(right).  Very slick those Clintons are….

At any rate, the Governator needs to grow a spine.  He should have signed the gay marriage bill if he believes in the right of gays to marry.  If he didn’t then he should have said that, instead of this voter crap.  If he wants to veto the assisted suicide law, then veto it and tell us that your Catholic heritage or some crap like that makes you veto.  Or you just don’t like it.  Tell me who the hell you are.  I’m rather sick of this vaguery of who our governor is.  I think that we have a right to know what this governor believes.  He shouldn’t get this free pass on all these social issues.