>>>People who supported Schwarzenegger back in the recall should have known better<<<
>>>There were a lot of them on this board. They argued that he was more “electable” than Tom McClintock, a true conservative with a solid track record<<<
I’m not a fan, but Arnold ran for Governor on promoting specific Ballot Measures that would have been great if passed. As Governor, he pushed those Reforms all the way to the Special Election.
After the Government Unions spent Tens of Millions to defeat ALL those Ballot Measures, Arnold just gave up citing “the will of the people” and that was that.
I like McClintock, but he would have been lucky to get 20% of the Vote if he even made it to the General Election.
And therein lays the problem. "Fiscal conservative" Ahnuld spent zillions of taxpayers money on a "special election", trying to drag people out to the polls when there wasn't an election already scheduled. The unions handily defeated him in getting "their people" to the polls.
Had Ahnuld simply not wasted taxpayers money and waited around a few months later until a REGULAR ELECTION to put his referendums on the ballot, he wouldn't have needed to beg voters to show up, and would have had a better chance of passing reforms.
Incredibly, even AFTER Ahnuld insisted on a "special election" and got his butt whupped (then said he "learned his lesson" not to do that), he nevertheless decided to push for ANOTHER "special election" a few years years later to pass MORE "emergency reforms" (all of which, not supremely, went down to defeat AGAIN)
You can't fix stupid.