I hadn't known that he supported the minimum wage hike and didn't support Dubya on getting Social Security reform (see post #219), though I did know that he STUPIDLY jumped on the anti-Dubai ports deal bandwagon.
I can give him a pass on the Dubai thing, as many conservatives (Rush being the superb exception) were wrong on that, but supporting a minimum wage and tossing cold water on Social Security reform -- too late for him to knock that stuff off, although it was decidedly NOT in the best interest of conservatives nor, presumably, his own.
In speaking with some of my pals about Repubs and support of Minimum Wage Hike in CA, I learned from them this was more in support of illegals to be champing at the bit to come out of the shadows (landscaping, prostitution, etc.). Conservative areas of CA will be slower at implementing this policy; but the liberal zones will hop right on it, thereby destroying the golden goose of business in their own districts and forcing liberals to have to find the money in their budgets to fill the gap created by minimum wage -- thereby preventing them from implementing more of their socialist agenda items.