Crossover issues like...Arnold being for gun control. Arnold being for abortion. Arnold hating Republicans for impeaching Clinton. Arnold being for useless big government programs like Prop. 49's afterschool thing. Arnold being against any Prop. 187-like limitations on benefits to illegal aliens. These are the "crossover issues" that are appealing to the unsavory types that you're trying to attract. And you call yourself a Republican!? Why don't you just run a Democrat if you're only trying to get the most votes above everything else? What's the point?
Either conservative principles are right and worth promoting or they're not. Either conservative policies are the best thing to save California or they are not. Either the Republican Party is the vehicle for electing representatives who will promote conservative principles - or it isn't.
Right now, with the Democrats in disarray and failed liberal policies obviously destroying the state of California, is the best time - an extremely rare alignment of the planets - for electing a true conservative. Yet so many Republicans are getting distracted by Arnold's star power and forgetting why we're Republicans in the first place. They are about to waste the perfect tactical opportunity to elect a real conservative because it is far easier to just go with Arnold and not do the work to get McClintock elected.
This could be the finest hour - the opportunity to prove that liberal policies are destructive and that conservative policies can succeed, save a nearly bankrupt state, and prove to the rest of the nation that we need conservative policies everywhere. We might be able to save California through true conservative ideas and capitalize on that victory to advance the conservative message nationwide. Or you can elect an inexperienced RINO and cross your fingers and hope. And if, somehow, purely by luck alone, the RINO appears to save California all we have is a victory for RINO, non-conservative principles. Thereby, the cause of conservatism would suffer a serious blow.
