I warned you that he was a radical greenie.
Then, when his ballot initiatives failed, he turned into a full-bore DEM.
Oh it was long before that. His first ballot initiatives, props 57-8 included provisions to get rid of the Gann spending limits. Then after calling that special election (in return for a $300,000 campaign favor) our Grovelnator went to New York bond houses to float those issues instead of California underwriters, costing Californians a totally unnecessary $250 million in lost tax revenue, for which he should have gone to jail.
Don't flatter yourself with the idea that Arnold changed his stripes after having his fraudulent "spending controls" rejected. his positions were a ruse from the get-go and you fell for them apparently repeatedly, at first probably out of a bogus fear of Cruz Bustamante whom McClintock would have beaten 1 on 1, but by the time of his later attempt to foist bogus spending controls, you should have known better. You were offered the reasons for rejecting Prop. 76 too, here and here.
Most people did; but all they had to do is look at who he is married to.
It's like pulling the string on a doll and the voicebox whines "Arnold only went liberal because he lost his initiatives," "Arnold will deliver the state for Bush," "California is a deep Blue State," "Better than BustaMoonbeam," etc.
Everyone seems to forget that California has been infested with liberals since the Communist infiltration of Hollywood and San Francisco decades ago. During those decades, California elected Jerry Brown as Governor -- preceded by Republican Ronald Reagan and succeeded by Republican George Deukmejian.
Notwithstanding the fine-print in Schwarzenegger's environmental plan, he ran on a largely conservative platform in 2003. The words touted at campaign rallies, GOP conventions, interviews and campaign propaganda all preached conservative principles. The result? He and McClintock took 68% -- yes, sixty-eight percent -- of the votes in the Recall. That simply cannot happen in a "deep blue" state as some try to paint California.
Unfortunately, "special interests" (as Arnold railed about in 2003) are in control of both parties and neither one represents the people of California. Meg is just the latest Wilsonian RINO-puppet rolled out to cling to control of the Sacramento machine. Everyone I know is just fed up with the lies coming out of our elected officials -- and the endless political advertising. I believe the term is market-saturation (or over-saturation). This 24/7/365 political campaigning at both State and federal levels is tiresome. Everytime we 'get past November,' someone is campaigning for the next election. I wish some of these folks were actually interested in public policy and governing.