Arnold Versus The R's

Reuters: “Schwarzenegger aims at Republican center for 2008”.

Rob Port: “Republicans: Please Ignore Governor Schwarzenegger”.

Hubert Humphrey could not be reached for comment.

Update: “Maybe Texas Gov. Rick Perry should move to California“. Meanwhile, Arnold proves that he is the embodiment of Conquest’s Second Law. And increasingly, his third one as well.

Related: Back in 2003, as Gray Davis–remember him?–was melting down, Ann Coulter wrote:

California is, in fact, a perfect petri dish of Democratic policies. This is what happens when you let Democrats govern: You get a state — or as it’s now known, a “job-free zone” — with a $38 billion deficit, which is larger than the budgets of 48 states. There are reports that Argentina and the Congo are sending their fiscal policy experts to Sacramento to help stabilize the situation. California’s credit rating has been slashed to junk bond status, and citizens are advised to stock up for the not-too-far-off day when cigarettes and Botox become the hard currency of choice. At this stage, we couldn’t give California back to Mexico.

Democrats governed their petri dish as they always govern. They buy the votes of government workers with taxpayer-funded jobs, salaries and benefits — and then turn around and accuse the productive class of “greed” for wanting their taxes cut. This has worked so well nationally that more people in America now work for the government than work in any sort of manufacturing job.

And that’s the “center” that Arnold is referring to.