Steps get you nowhere, when all you are doing is circling aimlessly. We already did the Arnold-style republican, and it got us nowhere but further in the hole. Remember Pete Wilson? Michael Huffington? Quackenbush?
What's your plan for the "next step", when Arnie decides he wants to be a Congress critter? Governor Riordan?
McClintock is ruined in this state regarding a higher office like Governor. He did not follow the plan of winning the state in steps and instead tried to promote his own political career well after it was time to get out.
Let me run that through the BS to English translator: Tom didn't suck up to the CRP powerbrokers, who would sell their grandmothers to maintain their control of the Party. Because, even with McClintock, Issa, and Simon already in the race from the Right of the political spectrum, somehow we needed a savior who would Follow the Plan. You know, that mysterious Plan that is kept secret from us rank and file types, yet will somehow deliver California back into conservatism? The one that only the sainted CRP seems to know and jealously guard, lest someone find out what they actually think?
And since he didn't toe the line that the powerbrokers thought he should, they have declared him Damaged Goods, and sent forth their minons to repeat it, ad infinitum, in the hopes of creating a self-fufilling prophesy. Thus will any others not Keepers of the Secret Plan be taught a lesson by example, and so properly worship at the altar of the omniscient CRP.
Steps is the only thing that wins.
How do you think liberalism got so entrenched in society eventually? They got it in in smaller increments, not all at once. They got people tolerating one thing and made the next step a little worse until it what it is today.
Conservatives need to in STEPS also bring back conservatism in increments until they are the vast majority view.
Conservatism is more logical than liberalism anytime, so eventually conservatism can win back what liberalism has eroded away.
It's done in steps though. You don't go at it with a NOW attitude like a young child because that is a big turn-off to the voters.