Arnold reformed workman's comp, he refused to raise taxes, despite the Dem pressure, Dem. gov candidate Angelides already promised tax increases. Arnold pushed the reform propositions full of conservative, Republican "principles" and the fine "principled" conservatives stayed home or even voted against it, with the Democrats.
And now you are advocating that we should give back full control to the Democrats. You are advocating defeat of Republicans. Please explain how total defeat of Republicans in CA will strengthen the Republicans.
The ballot initiatives lost because the Dems and especially the unions threw $200 million on ads. The way for conservative ideas to win in California or anywhere is that once you're in power, you use the bully pulpit to push your ideas, and even if you get defeated in passing the law, educate the public.
By ditching principles, and actually signing the other side's bills, you give the opposition moral cover that their ideas are winning because they convinced us they are good, not because they have more people in the legislature. This is a battle of ideas after all. Gingrich did not win back the House by accepting liberal ideas, even though for a long time he was in the minority. A principled minority can become a majority if it sticks to its principles and waits for when the party in power becomes arrogant. Then the minority can win and win with a mandate. That mandate allows the minority to push laws.
It is instructive to see what happened to the Republican party in Illinois. We were the majority for a long time until we became too liberal and too corrupt. We accepted that liberralism and corruption. Now we lost almost everything in Illinois, and the remaining leaders are so liberal as to be indistinguishable from the Democrats.