Can't wait to see how the RINO-lovers explain this one.
Didn't have to wait long, did you? From your Reply #75, to Reply #77!!! (Oh! And the others calling non-RINO's "political imbeciles," etc.)
The only explanation is that Schwarzenegger has decided that the "true conservative" Republicans are never going to be in his base, and that he thinks he needs to build a new base that explicitly leaves the "true conservative" Republicans on the outside.
What you had better pray for is that he doesn't succeed in that effort. Because if he does, you're never going to get a damn thing in California ever again.
Worst case for "true conservatives" would be as follows: Schwarzenegger gets thrown out in the primary, runs as an independent in the general election, and wins. The California GOP will officially be dead and buried at that time.
Second-worst case: he survives a bitter, divisive primary, and wins anyway. At that point, "true conservatives" will be forced to make an unpleasant decision: leave the GOP (and lose all that walking-around money), or stay in the GOP (and show themselves to be a bunch of craven money-grubbing wimps).
Over the past 38 years, since coming home from Vietnam, I have seen more effort being spent on trashing "RINOs" of various flavors (sometimes, "RINO" ends up equaling "A guy I agree with generally, but he ain't me, and this state ain't big enough to accomodate both of our egos") than on fighting the loony left in this state. The result is that the legislature is a moonbat-leftist Democrat monopoly.