[ElkGroveDan]

I find it hard to believe a GOP convention keynoter of just two years ago would even try to pull it off.

He has gone so far to the left that if that convention had been held just this past summer, he would not have given that speech. I doubt he would have attended. I hadn't heard all the party-switching talk to which you refer, but I sure as heck wouldn't be surprised.

[calcowgirl]

Let him switch! I'd welcome it. Then maybe Republicans can launch an adequate defense against the liberalism that he is promoting. As it is now, he has more ability to pull Republican legislators into his camp to approve taxes, spending, etc. Gray Davis could never have gotten the votes necessary for farmworker housing that Arnold did. (Thanks for nuttin' Ackerman, et al.!)

As long has he remains the "leader" of the CA GOP, we will only see things move further left. Once he joins up with Rudy for President, the GOP platform will be completely erased.

[SierraWasp]

C'mon you guys... You know darned well that Arnoiled is both... completely above partisanship and standing tall with one foot in the CA Coastal Commission and the other in the Sierra-Nevada Conservancy and his arms folded, gazing down upon all us lesser beings with pure contempt for our concerns over a democratic process in the people's CA REPUBLIC!!! (as stated in "all-caps" on our state flag!)