The economy, thanks primarily to CONgress and the POTUS with a more Reaganesque tax/economic stimulus have redeemed CA and Arnold, yet, the more things change... The more they stay the same!!!
Google and E-Bay are probably leading a somewhat revived high-tech boomlet that is swelling state coffers, but the basicly flawed formula for taxing only the rich and the booming corporations is gonna drop us right back into the same deep fryer at the next economic slowdown!!!
Meanwhile, we have allowed this macho moviestar muscle head to wreak some heavy damage on an institution he claims to be a member of and on many of the guiding conservative principles formally adopted by that institution in it's platform/mission statement!!!
That's what made many of us on here so angry at the others who were eager to throw all that over the side just to have a champion that claimed to be a member of our favorite institution. We could see his claim was obviously false.
Now, in looking back after an abjectly failed populist so-called "reform," we see wreckage in the form of a Governor who has recklessly insulted and alienated the most powerful and organized forces arrayed against conservatives and Republicans alike in the entire state!!!
Furthermore he has insulted and alienated many others in his heavy handed back handing of rural CA organizations like the Farm Bureau and the Grange who looked to him early to pull us out of the Gray Davis boiling soup, but instead signed an economic Sierra suffocator while boasting about boxes he was going to "blow up!"
Instead of being the champion that so many here on FR dreamed of, he fell into a terrible pattern of belicose bluster of what he was going to do... Then totally flinched nearly every time in deafening silence. The silence here on FR was palpable each time, too.
As Rush Limbaugh said when the MSM started howling about the President's pick of Harriet, the Party isn't cracking up! It's getting ready to crack down! And that's exactly what happened to be sure!!!
In CA, I think it's time for the CAGOP to "crack down!" This needs to happen quickly, before we really do crack up!!! Does anyone share this opinion with me???
More than anything else, I believe this is what has done him in.