You just gave RINOs a bad name. Think seriously here FReepers - all of you that voted for this fraud. All of you that thnk this man is better than any dem. This man who now has set your party back a good generation - that's what you did with your vote. Instead of holding out for a real conservative & if not you could have let the liberals kill the states fruture but now we die from a million cuts with a republican. Nice going.
We will have to agree to disagree. If one did as you suggest, by the time a "real conservative" was elected, the alternative (Angelides)- an openly communistic shmuck, would have socialized medicine, formally legalized homo marriage, given the illegals drivers' licenses, and raised income taxes even higher than the obscene bond measures that Arnold pushed.
My choice was to have Stalin or Sweden; both bad, but at least with Sweden, it buys me a few years. The California Republicans haven't been able to elect a real conservative for a long time. The last two attempts at it failed miserably. You might say "nice going", but acting like a "Luddite" isn't a good choice either.