Arianna Huffington is not a serious person.

Arianna Huffington went on CNN’s Larry King Live show this evening and announced this: Huffington withdraws from governor’s race.

According to Reuters, she yawned: “I’m pulling out and I’m going to concentrate every ounce of my time and energy to defeat the recall. I’ve realized that’s the only way now to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.” Arianna is not a serious political observer, so it should be taken as irrelevant that she now concedes that she will now oppose the recall — support Gray Davis — simply as a means to stop Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is irrelevant taht she does not think it possible that Cruz Bustamante could win on question two. Perhaps she spoke with the Davis people, because that is what they’re saying in private.

Huffington said at her first rally on August 6, the day she announced on NBC’s Today show: “And if we keep electing the same kind of politicians [as Gray Davis] who got us into the same kind of mess, funded by the same kind of special interests, we’ll never get out of this mess.”

She has a week to convince her supporters to do what she now wants them to do, provided she doesn’t leap back into the race, blaming it all on an “iron pumping dirty tricks squad.” We tried to contact her supporters, but their mother said they were down at the pub again and that they should get a job and move out.