Arnold Schwarzenegger is hoping his campaign will be a Charles Atlas moment in reverse.

"It's like the famous Muscle Beach scene where the scrawny guy is getting sand kicked in his face by a bodybuilder," said an Arnold adviser. "But in this case, everyone's cheering on the bodybuilder, because the scrawny guy is the mean, nasty, reprehensible one."

--Maureen Dowd today

Well, that's basically the central myth of the modern Republican Party, isn't it? Never mind that they're talking specifically about Gray Davis. To Republicans, the person with less power is always the oppressor and the powerful one is always the victim, right?