I see the pro-Arnold 'blame-it-on-the-conservatives' posters have already begun to show up.
This is the most pathetic attempt to shift blame I've ever seen.
There was a voting universe of ONE in the selection of this radical leftist to run the Executive branch in the great State of California: Arnold Schwarzeneggar's.
The buck stops with the Governor and no one else, no matter how hard his defenders try to spin this unmitigated disaster.
the ballot initiatives were worthy of conservative support on their own - regardless of whether Arnold was a "RINO". the votes did not materialize.
Wilson's people have utterly failed. The reform agenda failed. The political strategies failed. Getting some turnover in the legislature failed. Conservatives abandoned Arnold, stabbing him in the back and were never with him anyway because too many are obsessed with litmus tests rather than making progress.
He's in there now. We're either supporting him with all our best efforts and energy or we're electing Phil Angelides next November. It's that simple. Get it through your heads.
He's not done anything to deserve the treatment he's gotten. The economy is moving forward, he's twice vetoed driver's licenses for illegals, voice support for the Minutemen, repealed the car tax, held back the rabid growth demands of the education establishment, protected 3-strikes, vetoed homosexual marriage, has not raised taxes, serviced the debt a year early, attempted to bring competition to districts, allow him to make mid-year corrections on the budget, demand better quality teachers, not commuted death penalty cases, supported parental notification on abortion and paycheck protection.
The truth is he's done a lot of good. But this isn't a dictatorship. So long as the psychotic socialists and reconquistas dominating the legislature continue to be reelected and the unions continue to wield hundreds of millions of stolen money for slanderous advertising, Arnold *must* work with the legislature. He tried going directly to the people. The people failed him.
He's done far more for us than Grey Davis or any Democrat who will beat the crap out of any "litmus test" Republican generated by a GOP primary will.
If he commutes quadruple murderer "Tookie's" death sentence then Arnold will be done for and have gone too far to try to win back political capital.
Like with the national Republicans, including W, defeat will have been pulled from the jaws of victory.
If Arnold's the gubernatorial nominee in 2006, I'll still vote for him over any Democrat.