“??!!@@@#!@#!$@ What EXACTLY will it take for you to be shocked? Have you looked at the condition this state is in? If you continue being “happy” and “pulling the lever” for liberals, you ARE the problem!”
There are only two viable choices in the general election so you would you have us pull the lever for? I am already shocked by the state of CA. That doesn’t change reality and if you reread my post I was speaking to the state waking up. Do you think CA will change in the near term? No. Then unfortunately it comes down to two unpleasant choices in the general. We can fight the good fight up to that point but my comments were clearly about the general election. I’m not a child who doesn’t vote when the choices are dificult. Perhaps a little understanding of a dificult situation for your fellow conservatives would be in order.
Well, I always thought that maybe it would wake up. But, frankly, reading posts like yours makes me lose a lot of hope. You say that "Arnold is still better than Davis," that you "readily admit [you] had hoped he wouldn’t be this bad," and that "after all of his ballot initiatives got shot down, his choices became either go along with the democratic agenda and get what he could."
Where to start? The record clearly shows that Arnold has been far worse than Davis--record growth in government, mega-borrowing, multi-million acre land grabs, back-room deals, etc. And Davis could have never matched the damage Arnold did by back-stabbing fellow Republican candidates. Arnold had turned left far before his ballot initiatives got shot down but you continue to chant his propaganda. And as to hoping he wouldn't be this bad--Did you bother to read his platform before voting for him (Global warming, etc.)? Or look at his pre-election record of surrounding himself with leftists and special-interests, sponsoring Prop 49, and opposing Prop 54?
Observing "conservatives" who choose to vote for liberals(R), thinking they are going to get anything, is truly discouraging. The suggestion that you will continue being "happy" under their leftist rule and would even pull that lever again is downright frustrating!