Arnold's Fall
by Al Lemon Grove

It's obvious that Arnold has swallowed hook, line and sinker the media view of his disastrous foray into Proposition country.

He could have looked at it as most of us have, that California voters were hoodwinked. He sat by for 8 months while the bi-partisan socialists acted according to their second nature--they assassinated his motives rather than his substance, all the while pleading victimhood. That's classic socialism.

Arnold should have see clearly that an ignorant public was fooled BY THE VERY SAME GROUP OF UNIONS that tried to push Prop 56 on us. That Proposition started out with landslide acceptance in the polls but, as the public was alerted by consumer groups, they ended up defeating 56 in a landslide in March 2004.

Unfortunately, Arnold was left to his own devices and chose to ropa-dope the socialists, trying to dissipate their resources and then move in the last month with retorts of his own. Every statement he's made since indicates he's chosen to accept the election at face value--as a rejection of his principles! His "good sport" attitude has been disastrous, congratulating people who lied about and mocked him after the election.

I maintain he should've called time out right there and risked being booed for poor sportsmanship, confronting the public with their ignorance in blowing his very mild remedies. Anyone who couldn't get at least those tepid reforms pushed thru a public that had bought the claim that the state was in crisis by firing Gray Davis, had to be doing something very wrong.

To now make an even bigger error in accepting "the judgment of the voters"" brands him as childishly naive. He's now responded by hiring Gray Davis' former manager and recent president of the California socialists. Does anyone doubt that she will now sweep the house of Republicans? Erroneous perception of cause and effect has been a continuing Republican problem in California, for, to this day, Republican leaders still believe that they're in the minority in California because of Pete Wilson's 1994 stand against illegal aliens. Never mind that the campaign brought Pete from a 30 point deficit in August to a 16 point victory in November (46 points). Republicans have chosen to believe that you can be popular and unpopular at the same time.

Republicans have chosen to overlook the fact that their unpopularity was precipitated by their 1998 bungling of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, such that voters angrily voted for democratic-socialists in 8 of the top 9 offices for the democrat-socialists, while perceiving the Republicans as bed room snoopers. In doing so they lampooned Republican Dan Lundgren, who they forget bragged he helped illegal aliens! Nevertheless the Republicans chose to believe the Democrat press's assessment rather than their own eyes. Like Arnold , the Republicans sat with legs crossed while the socialists played their character assassination and victimhood game in spades.

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