Ditto to everything you said. I'm sick and tired of this "oh woe is us; it's the END TIMES!" cr*p from Republicans who are too ready to chuck it in just because we've had a setback. Arnold picked a fight with the unions who have a stranglehold on California's politics and finances, and ran them to the poorhouse. They didn't get anything they didn't have before, and they're financially a lot worse.
They are now very vulnerable for 2006 for similar initiatives to ruin them and they can't afford the same level of fight. Plus next time in a regular election, the vast amount of voters will not be all from a union employees because of a tiny turn out.
They are ripe to be laid out cold IMO. Plus if they have to spend hundreds of millions on defense, then they can't be as busy trying to shove a governor Bustamante down our throats.
I like to see the unions spending all their money and even borrowing against their future. Works for me. We have to do that as a regular thing against them.
I didn't support him at first but he's been in the trenches and the rest of you so called GOP in Cal have been AWOL !
In Ohio he crawled in bed with them. Monday night we received a recorded phone call from him urging us to vote "Yes" on our "Reform Ohio" issues.
These were rat sponsered "reforms" that among other bad things, would have REALLY helped the unions buy politicians. Thankfully, those issues went down to defeat.