It's amazing the things that being star-struck and fame-worshiping will blind one to!!
Here were our choices:
1. Sitting Governor that had taken us from a balanced budget to a (somewhere around) $37 billion bugdet deficit in five years and to the verge of fiscal collapse, and had signed a bill giving illegal aliens the right to driver's licenses.
2. A well qualified conservative state Senator that was about 10% in the polls.
3. A brown separatist Lt. Governor that was about as liberal as it gets.
4. Arnold Scwarzenegger, arguably a liberal by most standards, yet with possible bright spots here and there.
I know a lot of people like to think this was a case of being 'star struck', but there was only one option IMO.