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You and I just have differing recalls about what he attempted to accomplish in his first days in office.

Whatever.

If you could recall anything other than "they were good props" I would happy to refute your assertion that they would have made anything better, point by point. Unfortunately, you cannot/will not do that so there is little reason to discuss the issue.

He’s now fully re-aligned as little more than a liberal Democrat governor with an R behind his name.

If you looked at his actions, going all the way back to Prop 49 (before he was elected), his environmental platform (published before he was elected), his public comments about his father-in-law, and many other things, you would find that he was always aligned with the liberal Democrats. Now he is just more honest about it -- but still refuses to remove the "R" from next to his name.

Arnold is worse than a failure. He’s a disaster.

Agreed.

If you looked at his actions, going all the way back....you would find that he was always aligned with the liberal Democrats.

Part of the reason that Arnold was elected, is that most California conservatives and Republicans had never paid close attention to his politics prior to the recall election, and had scant data about his actual record on the issues.

Like most conservatives in the state, I felt squeezed between wanting a real conservative for governor (Tom McClintock), and fearing a win by the liberal lieutenant governor, Cruz Bustamante, so I reluctantly gave my vote to Arnold.

I learned a valuable lesson in that election, in that when faced with the pressure to give your vote to a RINO, or lose an election to a committed liberal, it's probably better to vote your conscience and go down swinging.

If the RINO wins, he or she will likely do the same damage as the liberal, but our side will be (rightfully) blamed for it. The people still won't become educated to the fact that it's liberal policies that don't work. Even worse, they'll be more likely to vote in a liberal in the next election to "fix" the damage caused by "that Republican".

In many ways, George Bush is responsible for Obama winning the Presidency because he did not govern conservatively. If he had, the Democrats would never have taken Congress in 2006, and they wouldn't have stood a chance at re-taking the White House in 2008.