What do you think j, you want me to smack this out of the park?
1994 - Proposition #184: Three-strikes, life imprisonment for repeat felons.
1994 - Proposition #187: Cut off state funds for Illegal Aliens.
1996 - Proposition #209: Ended statewide Affirmative Action
1998 - Proposition #227: Ended bilingual education
2000 - Proposition #22: Defined marriage as one man - one woman.
*long drive, way back, going going gone*
This state DOESN'T have moderate Republicans. As anyone can see, those Props aren't even moderate Right, those are Right Wing and they won handily. Why? Because there was no Republican politician to trust to implement it, its merely voting on the law directly.
What you and too many others prescibe is more of the cause as the cure. You want to hurt voter turnout, run a moderate Republican. History has shown this countless times, but since we keep running moderates and not supporting conservatives, because of this mythology, we lose. Then the "triangulationists" say "see see, that's why we need to be more liberal" and they make problem worse.
(R)nold will be the clincher, he will make the GOP, if he wins with a minority of the vote, indistinguishable from the Demos and destroy the party. And we are told to rally behind this? What is this the Twilight Zone?