[Paul C. Jesup]

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.

And what we learned from this was that Arnold took a page from Reagan and forced his enemies into bankrupcy, like when Reagan bankrupted the USSR.

This may a victory for the Republicans in the long run.

[A CA Guy]

The iron is hot to strike immediately in 2006 and we must apply ourselves to getting propositions all over the 2006 ballots. It is relatively cheap to place them on the ballots compared to the tens upon tens of millions in false slanderous ads they need to defend against them.

We dare not wait for 2008, they need to be attacked politically in 2006.

If nothing else, if they are on defense and are further made to go broke, then they can't afford to finance idiots like Bustamante.

Propositions divide and conquer that machine by breaking the banks of the employees unions and making them bleed financially to death on both ends.
Democrat politicians without massive union funding are far less powerful candidates, so lets make them play defense with propositions in 2006.
We'd be idiots to not do this again in 2006 IMO because they are weakened and ripe for defeat now.