Don't know about RB, but I for one am NOT judging Arnold based on the stories issuing from the Dem slime machine and/or the media liars. No, I am basing my objection to Arnold's candidacy on those words which are documented to have come from his own mouth or from his own organization. He is undeniably pro-abortion, pro-homosexual special rights, pro-illicit cohabitation, and anti-2nd amendment.
The first 3 of those positions are more than enough to disqualify him for my vote, and IMHO are enough to disqualify him for any commited Christian's vote if that Christian would stop and consider the statement his/her vote is making to the unsaved world. If Christian Republicans support a morally degenerate Republican simply for the sake of ousting an equally degenerate Democrat, what kind of witness is that for our claim of promoting morality and opposing immorality?
How can we conscientously denounce the outrageous moral behavior of the Democratic Clintons and their hangers-on, and all the while support with our vote someone who promotes the same immoral laws and lives the same depraved lifestyle but happens to call himself a Republican? I think if you were to look up Webster's definition of hypocricy you might find the above scenario used as an illustration of the term.
In addition to that, I believe a rejection by the Christian community voters of the unGodly moral stance taken by Arnold just might wake up the GOP bigwigs to the fact that their indifference to the Christian Right is leading the party down a disasterous course. Christian conservatives make up a critical segment of the GOP voting base, and if the present tendency of the party represented by it's all out support for a leftist libertine like Arnold simply to defeat a Democrat continues to gain momentum, I for one will not support or vote for a party which ignores my opinions and scoffs at my moral principles.
You may say I would be cutting off my nose to spite my face, but I deny that allegation. If I am going to get the same result from either party, and if that result is repugnant to my conscience and my Christian moral standards, why should I care which group of degenerate opportunists bears rule over me? I can't believe there are not enough other Christian conservatives of like mind as myself to deny the party a national victory if we all carried through with our warning to the party's leaders. And I believe such an example of our extreme disappointment is critical for both Christians and the party. If the current GOP trend as exemplified by Arnold's candidacy continues to build a head of steam, and it most certainly will if Arnold wins next Tuesday, it is only a matter of one or two national elections before all critical moral issues will be adressed in almost exactly the same manner by both parties. Will the win-at-any-cost Christian voters who support Arnold still support a corrupted GOP just for the sake of being on the winning side?