Really? For every one that he alienated from the extreme right he picked up a couple in the middle. He won, handily. Had he played to the extreme right he would have been defeated. Perhaps you should ping FO if you insist on stating his opinion for him.
Great for Arnie. A total screw over for the mainstream Republican downticket, which you continue to want to paint as "extreme right wing". How extreme right wing was Dick Mountjoy that Arnold had to practically endorse Feinstein over him? How extreme right wing was Prop 90? How extreme right wing was McC's stance on the Bondage measures that justified Arnie calling him "totally wrong" on the eve of the election? How extreme was Poizner, that even he, elected with a majority, not a plurality of Californians, wasn't worth campaigning with.
When are you going to realize that Schwarzenegger isn't a Republican? He is an independent Populist, running on a co-opted ticket. He doesn't support the President, he doesn't support CA Republican candidates, he doesn't even bother to hire his personal staff from loyal party.
Perhaps you should ping FO if you insist on stating his opinion for him.
I have ceased to ping FO, because FO won't engage in conversation, abandons threads after hitting and running, never answers direct questions, and only posts seminar, preprogrammed propaganda. I strongly suspect FO is a hired PR spinner, because that account's tactics mirror those of hired gun hacks. If you wish to ping that account, feel free.
As to stating his/her/its opinion that he/she/it is only interested in winning and has no core values, I have stated so directly to FO, and challenged he/she/it to state otherwise. The reply I got was to list what my core values were, which I did. I then restated my contention and challenge. FO let the contention stand, so the reasonable conclusion is that FO agrees with it.