I really think the "Bush dissatisfaction" factor is a losing argument for the dems. I don't know of anyone who sees State government being that intertwined with national offices.
Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College, said the governor so far hasn't done much for any of his fellow Republicans. "If Schwarzenegger builds a comfortable lead, we might see him campaigning for them in the fall. If his lead is light, he won't," Mr. Pitney said.
He has a big lead now--get out there Arnie! Act like a Republican.
He added that criticism within the party might goad the governor into doing more for his fellow Republicans.
Hmmm.... Many here call this "bashing." I agree with Mr. Pitney. All politicians should be held accountable to their respective party platform and are expected to support their fellow candidates!
The Austrian didn't get that "big lead" by acting like a Republican.
Far from it.
In order to have friends, you must show yourself friendly! It says that in the Bible somewhere!!! When you adopt a position and take drastic action right off the bat that offends huge organizations that endorsed your candidacy early on, you are going to lose that support by and large because a majority of those good people that belong to that major organization will take it personally!!!
Note I said "personally," and not "politically." The CA Farm Bureau is just such an organization that Arnold stabbed in the back with that Sierra-Nevada CONservancy that thousands and thousands in the Sierra had fought hard enough to even get Gray Davis to veto, twice!!!
Many of us fought the GANG-GREEN GovernMental EnvironMental Not For Profit NonGovernMental Organizations and there guerilla networks that have litigated and bullied and played dirty politics for decades against us conservative traditionalists that still believe in normal "investment backed expectations," "free enterprise and markets" and the basic constitutional right to own AND CONTROL our property without merciless militant regulators interfering with our lives!!!
So when a celebrity prig like Schwartznegger immediately throws in with GANG-GREEN to create another box to put 1/5th of CA under an unnecessary land-use controlling GovernMental body for no good reason, you come to despise him right off and quite determined NEVER to reward the prig with your sacred voting franchise!!!
Then you get a bunch of interlopers coming to a "conservative forum" website you have lurked on since 1998 and participated in posting on since 2000 that want to smear you with insulting smears that you want to hurt the conservative movement because you won't surrender to this tird's tune... forgedaboutit!!!
Actually, the Austrian has been acting like a Republican.
Maybe:
He has a big lead now--get out there Arnie! Act like a conservative.
... would have been a more accurate expression of the general frustration.