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You should compare Arnold's positions with what Ronald Reagan did in office.

While Reagan was governor, did he end abortion? Did he seal the borders against illegal aliens? Did he end the social welfare system? Did he institute a color-blind government? Did ne get oil contracts off the California coast or in ANWR (which BTW is in Alaska). As president he did not evenend the DOEducation, as he promised to do if elected.

Either Ronald Reagan must have been an abject failure in your view, or you are applying unrealistic standards to current candidates. McClintock may have good ideas that we all agree with, but he cannot implement them. Period. He can't do it.

Arnold has the right ideas on all the issues where he will have an impact. That's in the area of state spending and taxation. You want to get worked up about abortion, go ahead. But first look at what your namesake was able to accomplish during a long and successful career in politics.

>>>You should compare Arnold's positions with what Ronald Reagan did in office.

First off, I know the Reagan record like the back of my hand. You're way off base. Ronald Reagan had a political career that transcended his Califonria governorship. Reagan was a conservative. Arnold is a liberal.

And besides, this isn't 1966. Its 2003 and the problems and troubles that plagued California in the 1960`s, when Reagan ran for governor, has nothing to do with todays situation. There may have been some similarities, but there are few actual parallels. In 1966, California's economy was in poor shape. Today, California's economy is in total meltdown.

>>>Arnold has the right ideas on all the issues where he will have an impact.

Arnold is a liberal. Reagan was a conservative. Any comparisons between the two is a brutal outrage and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Tom McClintock is a Reagan conservative and would make a fine governor. Except the California GOP has lost its focus and has decided, setting aside their principles and surredering their conservatism to elect Arnold, is better for Califonia then fighting for the candidacy of Tom McClintock.

>>>You want to get worked up about abortion, go ahead.

Well, I do get worked up over the ending of 43 million human lives since 1973. And so did Reagan. If you read "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation", you'd understand where Reagan was coming from. Reagan's post Roe v Wade position on abortion is what counts today. Arnold favors abortion on demand. That's not a conservative position nor does it agree with the GOP platform.