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More Parsky Watch Parsky Watch - The Magazine Take the Parsky Watch IQ Test Visit the Parsky Watch Store	Back to Parsky Watch archives West wing risks alienating Arnold with Parsky Parsky Watch #54 November 18, 2003 GERRY PARSKY: “I AM SOMEBODY! I AM!” “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” - Hamlet Or in this case, the gentleman. That’s our take on an item from Robert Novak’s November 9 column, which stated that “George W. Bush is sticking with Los Angeles investment banker Gerald Parsky as his principal political agent in California rather than putting his fate there in the hands of Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger's team.” “According to California sources, Parsky asked the president whether he wanted to turn 2004 campaign planning over to Schwarzenegger and his campaign consultants, Mike Murphy and Don Sipple. Bush replied he wanted Parsky to continue his preparation for the 2004 campaign that has been under way for three years.” Novak’s column has previously served as an outlet for pro-Parsky leaks. It seems to us, though, that if you have to remind people that you’re relevant, then you probably aren’t. It looks like Gerry needs Jesse Jackson to lead him in a self-affirming chorus of “I…AM…SOMEBODY!” This is a remarkable item for other reasons, as well. It’s remarkable that given his dismal track record, and the fact that his political forecasts and commentary is almost invariably wrong, that Gerry Parsky continues to talk to the press. It is remarkable that the President’s political team would risk alienating Arnold Schwarzenegger by publicly re-investing their confidence in the failed shogunate of Gerry Parsky – and inexplicably jeopardizing their newly-rejuvenated re-election prospects in California. It is also remarkable the Bush team continues to work with a well-documented loser like Parsky. If Parsky were the man in charge of the Iraqi reconstruction, Saddam Hussein would be back in power by now. After all, this is a guy whose incompetence wrecked the California Republican Party – structurally, politically and financially. The GOP in California has only been saved by the recall movement that Parsky and his CRP flunkies treated with hostile indifference until almost the very end. And that summary of sorrows doesn’t include Parsky’s inexcusable diversion of RNC money from Tom McClintock’s controller campaign, his sabotage of Simon’s gubernatorial effort, or his infamous ongoing judge-picking collaboration with Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. Hopefully, there will be enough red states in 2004 to compensate for the botch GP will doubtless make of the President’s California re-elect effort.