He is an opportunist.
He entered the race late.
He gets flustered easily on simple questions that he should have been prepared for.
He does not want to debate.
He does not want to sign a no-tax pledge.
He has out-of-state liberal advisors.
He is not a California native.
There is a better qualified alternative (McClintock).
RINOs tend to do the opposite of what they pledge to do in their election campaign.
If the Demos have a dirt bomb on him, they can drop it any time to defuse him, or use it as blackmail.
Here's a bonus reason:
I really don't need anyone to tell me how to vote anyway. I'll vote for the best candidate and if other's don't, that's their problem, not mine.
Arnold has NO experience working with a legislature, much less the California legislature. Arnold is a political dilettante whose contribution so far is support for a feelgood "for the children" proposition. McClintock, by contrast, actually pushed the vehicle tax reduction through the California state legislature, so he has a track record of at least some success there-- not to mention that it is in the right direction (less government, less taxation, less regulation).
I'd like to point out that Arnold did not even bother to call McClintock after he muscled into the race... I would think at least a courtesy call would have been appropriate... maybe Arnold was too busy sucking up to east coast liberals to give the Calif. Republican legislator that practically wrote the book on how to reduce California government bloat the time of day. I've been in that situation before. It is not pleasant. If Arnold wants to win fiscal conservative support, he should start in his own newfound backyard. I have to believe Arnold is avoiding McClintock for very good reasons... such as, apparently, he is a phony and a "Trojan horse" liberal, and he apparently has nothing to gain by talking to McClintock either in public or in private. Now that's got to set off some warning bells even among the most sonambulent of Arnold-bots in this forum.
If Arnold truly wants to succeed at being governor of California, he needs McClintock a lot more than McClintock needs him. Instead, Arnold recruits Buffett and Lowe. As if an out-of-state rich liberal and a Hollywood rich liberal knows squat about how to manuever California government back to fiscal sanity. Arnold as governor will be so hounded once in office, the only thing he will be good for will be as a liberal punching bag. That would conflict with his ego, so I don't see much that would prevent him from changing his spots once in office. Any Arnold-bots consider that scenario?