I'm in your camp on this one.
How any rational conservative can publish in late 2006 that Schwarzenegger has gone to the left is simply incredulous.
Schwarzenegger was a lefty the day he announced for the office. His statements were clear and only those grasping for a plausible defense to justify their gullibility would have interpreted even the friendlier (blow up the boxes, no new taxes, roll back the car tax, rescind driver's licenses) statements as conservative.
Hey wait a minute! Who's camp you been bein in on all the rest of 'em, huh???
He tried taking on the unions and had his political head handed to him. The problem is not nearly so much the politicians as it is the constituency they represent. Go convince your neighbors to vote conservative.