Since the CRCC prevented voters from getting rid of Schwarzenegger at the primary level, of course, Yes. It simply makes no sense for conservatives to vote for a liberal. None.
A quick review of California's deteriorating financial circumstances, which Schwarzenegger has promoted/created since taking office, emphasizes the point. California today has a lager "structural budget imbalance", is deeper in debt and has higher taxes than either existed in the Davis administration or was proposed by Davis.
Those who suggest that a wounded Davis would have been a better financial steward than the Austrian are making a sober political observation which is a rebutable presumption. Davis' solution to the precipitating court judgment was short term borrowing offset by rescinding Wilson's General Fund subsidy of the in-lieu-of motor vehicle tax. Had California taken that tact it would have already paid off the debt and the subsidy could have been reinstated.
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" It simply makes no sense for conservatives to vote for a liberal. None."
Then you go on to say how much better off we would be if Conservatives HAD voted for Davis and kept him in office ...