Free Republic

It's no surprise Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would remake the California Republican Party following his election in the 2003 recall, but who would have expected that he would change the party of Ronald Reagan into the party of Earl Warren? For 40 years, California Republicans have been Reagan conservatives. Nearly all GOP officeholders today are to the right on most issues, but they run in safe gerrymandered districts. Schwarzenegger is running statewide in increasingly liberal California and has largely shed his party in his re-election campaign. Wittingly or not, Schwarzenegger adopted the mantle of another successful GOP governor ... The hallmark...