Sure, let's see your great research.
HOW MANY TIMES DID A CONSERVATIVE GOVERNOR FOLLOW A LEFT LIBERAL ONE?
You have to show THIS too, for your claim to have any validity.
We have a choice between Arnold and Angelides. Please tell us again, why it's better to hand over CA to a leftist and why conservatives should support the leftist? Unless you can prove that leftist Dems are followed by conservatives governors most of the time, your agitation for support for the election of Angelides has just been unmasked as having nothing to do with conservatism, and everything to do with your pushing a leftist Dem on CA.
And of course you don't think that CA's demographics and the Republicans running ultra conservatives has anything to do with ALL elected statewide offices in CA being held by Dems, with the execption of Arnold.
FairOpinion: "HOW MANY TIMES DID A CONSERVATIVE GOVERNOR FOLLOW A LEFT LIBERAL ONE?"
Record for Conservative GOP Governors following liberal Democrat predecessors (since 1988):
AL: 2 (1994-Fob James (R) d. Jim Folsom, Jr. (D); 2002-Bob Riley (R) d. Don Siegelman (D)
AK: 2 (1990-Walter J. Hickel (AIP) succeeded Steve Cowper (D); 2002-Frank Murkowski (R) succeeded Tony Knowles (D))
AZ: 1 (1990-Fife Symington (R) succeeded Rose Mofford (D))
AR: 1 (1996-Mike Huckabee (R) succeeded Jim Guy Tucker (D))
CA: Not applicable
CO: 1 (1998-Bill Owens (R) succeeded Roy Romer (D))
CT: 1 (1994-John Rowland (R) succeeded Lowell Weicker (I))
DE: Not applicable
FL: 1 (1998-Jeb Bush (R) succeeded and defeated Buddy MacKay (D))
GA: 1 (2002-Sonny Perdue (R) d. Roy Barnes (D))
HI: Not applicable (Lingle a RINO)
ID: 1 (1994-Phil Batt (R) succeeded Cecil Andrus (D))
IL: Not applicable
IN: 1 (2004-Mitch Daniels (R) succeeded Joe Kernan (D))
IA: Not applicable
KS: Not applicable
KY: 1 (2003-Ernie Fletcher (R) succeeded Paul Patton (D))
LA: 1 (1995-Mike Foster (R) succeeded Edwin Edwards (D))
ME: Not applicable
MD: 1* (2002-Bob Ehrlich (R) succeeded Parris Glendening (D))
MA: Not applicable (RINO Weld succeeded Dukakis (D) in '90)
MI: 1 (1990-John Engler (R) d. Jim Blanchard (D))
MN: 1 (2002-Tim Pawlenty (R) succeeded Jesse Ventura (Ref))
MS: 2 (1991-Kirk Fordice (R) d. Ray Mabus (D); 2003-Haley Barbour (R) d. Ronnie Musgrove (D))
MO: 1 (2004-Matt Blunt (R) succeeded Bob Holden (D))
MT: Not applicable
NE: Not applicable
NV: 1* (1998-Kenny Guinn (R) succeeded Bob Miller (D))
NH: 1 (2002-Craig Benson (R) succeeded Jeanne Shaheen (D))
NJ: Not applicable (*but some consider Christie Whitman to have run Conservative campaign in '93 to defeat Jim Florio (D))
NM: 1 (1994-Gary Johnson (R) d. Bruce King (D))
NY: 1 (1994-George Pataki (R) d. Mario Cuomo (D))
NC: Not applicable
ND: 1 (1992-Ed Schaefer (R) succeeded George Sinner (D))
OH: Not applicable (*but some consider Voinovich to have run Conservative campaign in '90 to succeed Dick Celeste (D))
OK: 1 (1994-Frank Keating (R) succeeded Dave Walters (D))
OR: Not applicable
PA: Not applicable
RI: Not applicable
SC: 1 (2002-Mark Sanford (R) d. Jim Hodges (D))
SD: Not applicable
TN: 1* (1994-Don Sundquist (R) succeeded Ned Ray McWherter (D))
TX: 1 (1994-George W. Bush (R) d. Ann Richards (D))
UT: Not applicable
VT: Not applicable
VA: 1 (1993-George Allen (R) succeeded Doug Wilder (D))
WA: Not applicable
WV: 1 (1996-Cecil Underwood (R) succeeded Gaston Caperton (D))
WI: Not applicable
WY: 1 (1994-Jim Geringer (R) succeeded Mike Sullivan (D))
*Many or some consider Ehrlich, Guinn, Sundquist RINO (though didn't campaign as such).
So there you have it, 32 instances when a Republican campaigning or governing AS a Conservative succeeded or defeated a liberal Democrat (or liberal Independent, in the case of CT) since 1988. That's 30 more times than a Conservative Republican succeeded a RINO liberal.