"Thos who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" -- or something like that.
Whenever the conservative wing of the Republican party wins out at the nominations, we end up with candidates like Simon and Lundgren, who get beaten by the Dem candidate by a 2 to 1 margin. Yet some never learn, and they want to keep doing the same thing. That is the reason there are hardly any Republicans elected into statewide offices and the Legislature is overwhelmingly Dem. The Republicans keep running candidates, who can't appeal to moderates.
Considering the demographics, this is a prescription for failure.
"The Democratic Party currently has an advantage of 1.4 million voters over the Republican Party (7.1 million to 5.7 million) or 9 percentage points (43% to 34%), according to the Secretary of State.
Among those most likely to vote in this year’s elections, Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 7-point margin (44% to 37%), while 15 percent of likely voters are registered as independents."
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/jtf/JTF_VoterProfilesJTF.pdf
Now we finally have Arnold, a Republican, who also appeals to moderates and even Dems, so some so-called conservatives are working tirelessly to have him defeated by socialist Angelides, who will complete California's destruction.
You seem to understand the situation perfectly, unlike some who claim to be conservatives, but want to see Dems take over California completely.
Your grasp of the State's situation is spot on.
I am very conservative but understand we can't afford a democrat Gov. so will vote for Arnold.
I don't believe in cutting of my nose to spite my face.