Its not so different than some “conservatives” here in the U.S. - trying to be more liberal than a liberal.
You need examples: McPain-Feingold; Medicare Drug Expansion, No-Child-Left-Behind (largest expansion of the “federal” education budget ever), Immigration Amnesty; McPain’s Al Queda civil rights amendments to defense legislation; etc, etc, etc, etc...............
I could see the Governator of CA wanting to do something like this.