I know that Arnold is an extremely liberal Republican, verging on the Democrat, but he has turned into a master politician and does manage a very difficult state from which so many of the 'Rat leaders hail. In short, you just can't argue with his success and maybe he does have a winning formula. It'd be really stupid to ignore him and his methods.
I could almost go along with the logic if he hadn't gone so liberal on the environmental issues.
The country doesn't particularly like either the Moonbat Left or the Religious Right. People don't want self-described "righteous conservatives" -- or even "righteous liberals" -- telling them how to live their private lives. They see these people as self-righteous prigs and view them as a general pain in the ass.
With Comrade Pelosi in charge, the Democrats are about to take a hard turn to the left, a turn not supported by the general population. If the Republicans position themselves as a Center-Right party, and not a pure Right Wing party, they can hog the center, splinter the Democrats, finish them off in 2 years -- and shovel them onto the ash heap of history.
Arnold is offering a way to go in for the kill.
The majority of America is not as wacked-out as California.
His methods only make sense if the rest of the country is as crazy as Calif. Luckily, not all of the other 49 states are carbon copies of this Fruitopia.