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Arnold as earned his place in history with the spectacular implosion of a political standing that fell from stratospheric heights to political lows in the space of less than 2 years. And he never quite conveyed to the voters why they should do his homework for him. For someone new to political life, he never quite grasped the need to govern as much as to campaign and he fell short of the mark. He faces going into 2006, a surly electorate that knows it wants more spending without higher taxes. The Democrats hope they can make that happen for them while denying Arnold any significant achievement that could bolster his re-election bid next November. In the meantime voters have demonstrated just how ambivalent they are about fixing things up in Sacramento.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

They campaigned as if they could skate by on his Hollywood looks.

And they campaigned with what can only be deemed as disdain for Prop 73. Hell, all of der Grubenator's fliers made only passing mention of it.

Thanks for nothing, Arnold.

Bullcr@p, he had to fight the union machine and 200 million bucks against him. Even Reagan lost to the union machine 38 years ago and his accomplishments that later included the Presidency, ending the evil empire and the Reagan revolution all proved he was not dead in the water from his California loss.

Give Arnold the credit that he fought a fight against this machine.
They were so afraid of him they spent tens of millions on ruining the governor's image before even starting on the propositions and they are now broke and owe money.

We do this again in 2006 and we more than likely will win, because no way they can raise the same cash, and I'd rather they spend their millions on defense rather than trying to push a Bustamante down our throat.

Arnold had guts and did the job he was expected to do.
Anyone who are going to disrespect him after is effort to help us are walking piles of human debris and part of the problem with California, not the solution.

He fought a reasonable fight with what he had to use and I respect his effort.

There is no Arnold problem here, it is a government employee union problem spending tons of money others didn't have to fight back with.

Oh, bah. Arnold told us when he was elected that he was going to take issues to the people. So he took these issues to the people, and the people said no. Well, having a bone-headed electorate is nothing new, particularly here. It's hardly the end of the world or of California, nor the end of Arnold as governor. We've had a lot worse governors than Arnold, and we probably will again, but he's what we have now, and if we expect him to do the reforms we elected him to do, we have to give him the tools. And the time. California's been a mess for years, and we can't reasonably expect it all to be fixed in a year or two; this isn't a half-hour sitcom with a nice tidy resolution before the last commercial. And Arnold may be learning on the job, but at least he's trying, which is a whole lot more than can be said for Grey-out Davis who was spending all his time cutting sweetheart deals with his special interest groups in order to line his war chest in anticipation of a run for the presidency, and wouldn't that have been a mess. So, enough with the hand-wringing and navel-gazing. End of rant.

Ahnold was not ready for prime time...a fact pointed out by numerous posters to this site when he was running in the primary. He did not have the political background to be governor or he wouldn't have unified his opposition in such a clumsy way. But, hey, CA "Republicans" didn't care because they just wanted a "winner." That's not what anyone is calling Ahnold today.