Arnold turned off the base, bigtime!
And, because Arnold turned off the base, they decided to inflict Jerry Brown on themselves, and they decided that Tom McClintock wasn't conservative enough to be Lt. Gov, and Dick Mountjoy was not a good choice to replace Feinstein...
In other words, "the base" is stupid AND crazy.
And that brings to mind a funny coincidence: "the base" translates to "al-Qaeda" in Arabic.