[EGPWS]

For all these reasons Republicans of all factions should rejoice at the Schwarzenegger candidacy. It offers the only possibility of a win for state Republicans or for the Bush campaign in California. It will help to revive the California Republican Party. And it could reshape the politics of the nation."

I see your mindset on this and it is a very understandable one at that!

Being an outsider, and looking at California's demise as an outsider, what I see in Horowitz's scenario is a gradual shift to the left to appease and make everything flow to keep us strong as a nation. IMHO we have been doing that on a national basis for decades and gradually we have been distancing ourselves from what this country's creation was based upon.

I, however, question this appeasment as being something to promote the betterment of California on the issues at hand.

Again, it is a quick, and most likely, a short term fix. If it even gets to the point of fixing the problems California has with Arnold as Governor.

[liberallarry]

The Jeffersonian vision of a nation of small independent farmers is dead, gone, impossible. The industrial revolution, the demographic explosion, technical advance, massive immigration of non-Western Europeans have changed America and the world permanently. We can't go back. We can't look back. What we can do is try to mold the new world and its new institutions to accomodate our values.