You and the rest of your party-above-principle GOP Big Tent Arnold cheerleaders are on a fool's errand. But you're too blinded by celebrity (and latent liberal tendencies) to catch on.
You really do need to come out of Arnold's amen corner once in awhile to see what's going on in the real world.
By the way, I have yet to find a single one of my Orange County conservative friends--all hard right rudder--who is planning on voting for the Austrian. They seem to be as fed up as I am.
"McClintock, who is more conservative than Schwarzenegger, backed the governor against conservative critics earlier this year and praised him repeatedly Thursday for his attention to infrastructure and the deficit. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1669857/posts
California Republicans: Arnold's No RINO! (Conservatives Support Him)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643459/posts
“The Democrats of Sacramento represent a tax-and-spend agenda that is not likely to change,” wrote the GOP’s “great right hope” of ‘02, Bill Simon Jr., in the latest American Spectator. “The governor could go a long way if he represented a stark contrast to that agenda. People like candidates with a vision, and Schwarzenegger has a reform-minded one.”
On the balance, Arnold’s been a great governor,” Scott Baugh, former GOP state legislator and now chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, told me. “His first act was cutting $4 billion from the budget. His second act, the repeal of the car tax, resulted in $12 billion back to the taxpayers. Worker’s compensation claims have dropped 40%. That sends a huge signal to business that California is serious about welcoming new jobs.”
Like other conservatives, Baugh hopes that a Schwarzenegger re-election this fall will give the state GOP what he calls “a bench,a conservative bench—Tom McClintock as lieutenant governor and Chuck Poochigian as attorney general.”