"AHHHnold is no conservative but he's light years better than Angelides."
So very true, but one cool thing we get that conservatives normally don't get with a rhino, is that rather than suffering through some dull drab rhino that isn't gaining us anything at all, only keeping a slightly more liberal Dem out of the seat until the next election, we get a bonus.
I think Arnold's charisma and national celebrity and his personal can do attitude, reflects positively on the Republican party in California (for the national guys, remember everything is relative).
I have the feeling that the time he is in office isn't just a period of trying to minimize our losses but that we are making a tiny net gain.
One of the small gains is he humanizes the Republican party to a lot of the crowd that thinks we are Satan or something, people like young single moms, or non-political Hispanics and such, the kind of people that aren't sure what the two parties are, but for eight years see the word Republican and governor next to the movie star "Arnold Schwarzenegger"
There are Republicans in other states that have worse than Arnold, they have all the negatives of a rhino without any positives, at least we get a few positives.
Your points about Arnold are well taken.
"I think Arnold's charisma and national celebrity and his personal can do attitude, reflects positively on the Republican party in California"
Yeah, It's just too bad he won't campaign for any of the Republican candidates for the Legislature unless they are in a safe seat.