Reply #17: The outcome of this game was set for some time

[Snellius]

The motive force was change (that eliminates Davis and Bustamante) without sacrificing the libertarian values that Californians hold dear (that eliminates McClintock and Comejo).

Arnold pulled a con. He lied that he was the outsider, a man of the people. But, behind the lie, he has no vision of California other than a place where business should be allowed to do whatever it wants. An extension and expression of his egomaniacal will to power.

I was born and lived in California most of my life. My family goes back before the Gold Rush. And of all the ugly and greedy and loony changes that have ruined that beautiful state, once such an isolated paradise lost, and the reverence for nature of Ansel Adams or Robinson Jeffers, this election of Arnold Schwarzenegger is really the final ignominy. I don't think anyone can ever really feel part of a place unless they're born there. So I'm again in mourning for my great state on the Pacific, and for what it used to be.