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OK. Here is a multiple choice question for you. Do you prefer a or b? You have to pick a or b. WHICH will you pick?

a. Arnold runs around campaigning for the Republican candidates in CA, even hopeless ones, like Mountjoy, it doesn't do the Republicans any good, Arnold ends up typecasting himself and loses to Angelides.

b. Arnold runs a more moderate campaigning, being careful to not give Angelides a chance to portray him as a "dreaded right winger", Arnold does fundraising to some R. candidates, WINS the election and other Republicans win too on his coattails.

Why do I have to pick between two ridiculous scenarios? I don't accept your premise that those are the only scenarios. How about you pick one of mine;

A) Arnold runs around trying to be the biggest liberal he can be since that what he is at heart. Republicans get disillusioned and throw their hands up in disgust and don't bother voting, causing the REAL Republicans on the ticket and legislative candidates statewide to lose in droves. democrats capture 2/3 majorities in both houses and the governor's office. California begins a desperate and ruinous slide into a collectivist abyss that threatens the entire US economy.

B) Arnold runs a tough no apologies campaign like a character from one of his movies which is what so many voters thought they were getting. He espouses the economics of Milton Friedman and the conservative policies of Ronald Reagan. He begins each week with a stop at the Reagan Library with a short prayer and pledge to rid the world of big-government collectivism and the social rot and depravity of the hippy generation. Low-propensity voters who have been disaffected and haven't voted in decades turn out in droves and Arnold wins by 61.7% the same as Proposition 22 did in 2000. Long shot GOP candidates win up and down the state and the GOP captures one or both houses of the Legislature ushering in a new era of politics in California history.