Good grief!
What else can I say?
You can start with an admission of culpability.
My cup runneth over with dismay that anyone could claim to prefer Nixon over Humphrey and yet do this dastardly deed to my beloved adopted state! I loved this state from afar in the little one room school house where I took the CALIFORNIA STANDARD ACHEIVEMENT TEST in flat, boring, northern Illinois as a child!
I dreamed of emmigrating to CA as a young man. Family trajedy finally brought me here in 1964, just as the place was starting to collapse into liberal hell politically. Reagan brought relief and sparked a hope in me that it could be saved... but alas, a mocker has stolen a most historic Recall election and now he mocks even his own words in a stirring convention speech.
IMO he mocks all CA FReepers, especially those who supported him out of a fear that a conservative couldn't beat a corrupt LaRazza/Commonista puke.
I am so saddened by this, that like you, I can't think of much more to say. The fanatics I've fought for a decade couldn't force their will on their Democrat Governor, but have now coopted a Republican in name only... that was better looking and sweeter talking than a cockeyed conservative that too many never gave a chance because they assumed and presumed he didn't have one!!!
It's done now and it will be a thousand times harder to undo. We can't just "right-click" and click "undo!" Now I'm an old man, trapped in a state lurching toward the exact same Socialism that the deceptive Governator tried to tell us he despised, yet signs into law an act for the powerful, not the people and their land that has been settled by their forefathers with great toil.
Now they'll have to go yet again, hat in hand and bow before yet another bureaucratic tribunal and beg permission to break off just a little parcel to fund a child's education, or their own retirement. God knows they'll never again be allowed to cut one of their own trees to fund those needs, like before Schwarzenegger and his new found friends known as GANG-GREEN!
GANG-GREEN's only solution for the Sierra-Nevada is economic suffocation of anything not tied to Eco-Tourism in a new monopoly of nothing but a gigantic theme park for city slickers living like sardines as MetroSexuals in blue voting coastal counties of the once great state of Cauleeforneeah. There, maybe I said some of it for you, FRiend... Pass this along to your friend South40 as I dare not ping him as he can hand it out, but cannot take it. (if you care to. he'll probably call me a coward again, but tonight I could care less)