[El Sordo]

I am not savvy to much of California politics, so I do not know exactly what is going on. However, I wonder this: It seemed like the GOP bigwigs in CA never really took to Arnold. That they kind of left him out of their clique.

If this is the case, and he instead became closer to Dem lawmakers, it would seem entirely expected that he would start to lean more leftward.

[numberonepal]

Commie is as a commie does. He may not have been accepted into the “club”, but it doesn’t mean he has to enact communist legislation.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

However, I wonder this: It seemed like the GOP bigwigs in CA never really took to Arnold. That they kind of left him out of their clique.

If this is the case, and he instead became closer to Dem lawmakers,

It's more a matter of the California GOP being so weak that Arnold couldn't accomplish anything with their help alone. And after all of his ballot initiatives got shot down, his choices became either go along with the democratic agenda and get what he could, or get run over by it and get nothing.

[Osage Orange]

One word..............

RINO

[Pelham]

It seemed like the GOP bigwigs in CA never really took to Arnold. That they kind of left him out of their clique.

Hardly the case. Arnold was the choice of the mover and shakers, who refused to support the conservative option, Tom McClintock.