Well stated. If you were here in 2002, you remember that there were conservatives on FR that rationalized voting for Arnold, using (in my view) very tortured reasoning. Now conservatives my wonder, privately, why they bothered. Arnold is and has always been a leftist that simply couldn't stomach the soft anti-Americanism and in-your-face arrogance of the New Left Democrats. A sound conservative ideology that is not.
Yes... that was the summer/fall of 2003 and I was here. Some of the same posters offering up torutured reasoning then have offered the same or similar arguments on this thread. But now, there are two-plus years of actions which allow for a more objective evaluation of the candidate--that record does not speak well for the candidate or the party.