I don't consider keeping a promise to his constituents to stay in the race a "strange thing." As to trashing, FR is a virtual toxic waste dump.
I always said I liked his issues, but that he needed to self market better because when ever I bring his name up, the people say "WHO"?
As one of the first to begin the "only Arnold can win" campaign (months before Arnold showed up on Jay Leno), you did post that repeatedly on FR threads and despite being given links continued to post things like "never heard of him". Most people who knew there was a recall campaign knew who Tom McClintock was and, as polls showed by election day, he was the most well liked candidate of the bunch. (That must really ruffle Parsky's feathers).
People vote their wallet, so knowing illegals take their tax money, 187 passed big time. No surprise there for me at all.
And the big-spending/big-borrowing/government-subsidies program of Schwarzenegger is something you think they embrace?
The problem is Democrats have their hands in the candy dish buying the vote and the voters have to be trained to understand how unethical it is and why they should be mad at that.
This behavior is not limited to Democrats. It is becoming a well-honed art in Sacramento within this administration.