Wow, did I make a whopper of a type.
I wrote “He campaigned as a fiscal liberal”. I meant to write “He campaigned as a fiscal conservative”.
He was a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. I am sorry for the typo that reveresed my meaning from “fiscal conservative” to “fiscal liberal.”
I clearly remember him running as a fiscal conservative. Thank you to calcowgirl for the timely memory refresher just how hard he campaigned as a fiscal conservative.
My point is simple. Arnold never hid the fact he was a social liberal. Anybody who voted for him and knew he was a social liberal, knew he wasn’t likely to govern as a conservative. That is my point.
So you are right that he campaigned as a conservative, but only as a fiscal conservative. But he never even pretended to be pro-life or pro-gun and embraced environmentalism and eduaction as big issues.
Any voter who thought Arnod was Conservative duped himself because he clearly telegraphed himself as a RINO. Clearly.
Technically you are right. He marketed himself as a Conservative. I don’t know how any Conservative voter could fall for it.
Same way they're falling for RINO's today. Most don't have the time, inclination, and/or discernment to bear down on this stuff the way we folks do.
And dozens of freepers on this thread were duped* in 2003 and were trashing their antagonists with BS supporting Arnold, just as they are doing with Fiorina today. Same ol', same ol'.
*By using the word "duped," I am being generous. In reality, I believe many of these folks are either 1) deliberately working to move the country to the left and/or 2) too ignorant to think for themselves and will simply follow instructions or repeat vapid talking points of the RINO campaign-manager-dujour.