[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Tomorrow I am entering Freeper Detox and will be drying out for a week or so but am looking foward to discussing the changes in California under the leadership of our new governor - ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER!!

I hear ya. I'm actually excited about getting back to my personal life tonight, its been a while since this populism first grabbed me on Feb 18th. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/846240/posts and the Out Of State Know It Alls said it couldn't be done. (pay special attention to #9, call it foreshadowing...kinda creepy) It was fun seeing all the DNC interviewed on the networks...suffering. They overplayed hand, while Bush is not really involved at all. I hope for his sake he doesn't change that policy because things aren't going to get any better than yesterday here.

Within a month it became clear that the CA G.O.P. was not an organization I could respect and support and so I have switched parties and will be changing my screen name to Rabid Dog.

Well Dog... I can relate. If someone would have asked me what I consider myself during the war, or any time before, I probably would have used the terms "Rabid Republican" myself. But this election, with the perfect Conservative candidate being sold out, attacked, threatened, marginalized, and hated-----things certainly have changed. I'm a Conservative again, not a Republican. History is repeated itself here you know---many of the large number of Independents in CA are disaffected Republicans from the past 2 GOP Govs...On the bright side, it feels really good not having to rationalize for the laundry list of GOP hypocracies though! I'll sleep alittle easier at night not going to bat for those politicians.

Well, I'm not going to be mean to the (R)nold Groupies at this point, it serves no purpose now. I can't say though that I am any less certain of his abject failure, but that won't be for a long time, and I'll give him a shot. I know you don't like pictures in this thread, but I consider it relevant...

[Rabid Dog]

What's really amusing about your post is that if Arnold does raise taxes, renege on the Driver License issue, etc. - you will be hard pressed to find anyone that will admit he that voted for him. Most will claim they voted for Tom. JimR. should run a poll about a year or so from now.

[elbucko]

LOL! Excellent picture. A haunting image for the "Schwarzenheads".

[A CA Guy]

That looks more like McClintock's fantasy, of course we see how Tom ended up...Crashed and Burned.

[ppaul]

Tax this suckers!

Yeah, right.
Where they gonna go?
Oregon? Washington?
Nothing but leftist, socialist states out there.
The revolution is complete.
There's nowhere in the US you can go to get away from the welfare statist elite.
So go ahead - leave California.
It ain't no better elsewhere.

[ApesForEvolution]

You sound like me a little over a decade ago...

[goldilucky]

I just love your post! The picture speaks for itself. I will always back McClintock!

I don't dislike Arnold at all but I don't trust him either. He will have to prove to me that he is for Americans and Freedom. To me, he appears to be too much like Bush Jr., appearing as a "moderate Conservative" to the Republican Party.