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The SacBee's Laura Mecoy -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, he's no Ronald Reagan. Quotable:

Schwarzenegger's supporters point to former President Reagan as evidence that a charismatic actor can leap from the silver screen to the state Capitol.

But Reagan toiled in Republican trenches for almost 15 years before he won the 1966 California gubernatorial campaign.

Schwarzenegger campaigned for the first President Bush and chaired the former president's physical fitness council.

But he has only voted in three of the last eight statewide elections, according to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder's Office.

He voted in last year's primary and general elections as well as the November 1998 gubernatorial election. County voting records only date back to 1996.

Reagan not only voted but he never appeared nude, as Schwarzenegger has in his three "Terminator" movies and in photographs.

The former president did appear in Westerns, but the depiction of violence wasn't as graphic as it is today.

Reagan occasionally stumbled in his public statements. But he was never quoted with the type of impolitic remarks that Schwarzenegger has uttered.

In recent interviews, for instance, the action star used vulgar terms when referring to a woman's physical attributes and gleefully speculated about burying a woman's face in a toilet bowl during a movie fight scene.

"That kind of language is at the lowest level," said Bob Mulholland, California Democratic Party campaign adviser.

He's already suggesting Schwarzenegger would require female state workers to wear dresses because the actor once said he won't let his mother and wife wear pants when they're in public with him.

"Arnold is a movie star, and movie stars do colorful things," his consultant, Gorton, said. "But look, the experience we already have tells us that the button-down guys got us to where we are today."