Sloganator Too | Rise of the Voting Machines: Need a slogan for Governor of California? No problem. I am a machine. Hasta la Vista, Baby. I'll be back. It is time. Arnold Schwarzenegger one liners are hitting the campaign trail, from Leno to Los Angeles. A new advertising medium is emerging - the campaign trailer.

Not since Carmel California Mayor Clint Eastwood's Make my day, California Congressman Sonny Bono's I got you babe and California Governor turned President Ronald Reagan's That was for the Gipper, has a politician delivered such memorable lines. "Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close," said Ronald Reagan to aide Stuart Spencer in 1966.

Today, every "with it" politician also has a weblog, or blaaaahg as Arnold will undoubtedly call his. Californians for Schwarzenegger registered his political Internet domain on January 10, 2002. Surprise! Join Arnold dot com. It's so... Californian. Bring jobs back to Silicon Valley.

Thanks to this former Mr. Universe, California has become the center of the Political Universe. Schwarzenegger is "sucking the oxygen" out of the political arena, they say. Equal time regulations do not legislate equal attention for all political candidates.

That's where the Internet comes in handy for politicians, according to web savvy Bloggerheads. Unable to get a soundbite on national television these days, politicians like Howard Dean, John Kerry, Gary Hart, and Travels with Tom Daschle all rely on the Internet to connect with the people, the average Joe. This must have been what Al Gore had in mind for the Internet when he invented it. But not all these blogging politicians really get it, as noted recently by columnist Maureen Dowd writing this in The New York Times.

And, in the Wordlab, political aspirant Joe Williams, the future voice for the people of the State of Michigan, finds a campaign slogan that speaks directly to his constituency:

I am your average Joe.

Inspiring words that immortalize politicians... from the creative imaginations of humble writers.