I agree with you. I, or anyone, has the right to be disappointed in the Big Guy, but we also have a responsibility to be pragmatic. We might only get 50% of what we want from Arnold, but Angelides would be a disaster.
Agelides hasn't prayer in hell. All the union money in California and Massachusetts combined, won't be able to peddle this package of damaged goods.
California is stuck with an Austrian liberal, barring any highly unlikely, unforeseen, political disasters.