Today I own a small firm in Pennsylvania that churns a few hundred thousand dollars into our local economy, all money from outside the state and around a third from foreign countries. This is a benefit I am very happy to deprive of the socialist bastards who stole my homeland away.
Do I have a stake in this race? Maybe not. But I know there are many transplanted California natives like me, who are looking on with interest. I can run my business from anywhere, and I'd love to go back. But I have heard absolutely nothing from Arnold that would inspire me to do so. He basically is a friend of the already-rich liberals who live in the hills, hide in their multi-million dollar estates, and enact regulatory barriers to entry to try to keep small firms owned by imaginative and resourceful people out of the state.
The primary motivation of country club Republicans is to use government as an instrument to lock in their wealth. That's why they love big government so much. Big government can be a protector for big business in what is and has been a parasitic marriage of convenience sucking the California taxpayers dry.
Not that they don't deserve it. Like lemmings, they voted for every charlatan, including Pete Wilson, along the way. If they vote in either Bustagut or Schwartzwhatever, they'll have the government they deserve.