Arnold

The mystery of this is not how Davis was given the bum's rush or how Arnold managed to become governor-elect. All that is explainable by reference to conventional American politics and the money that fuels it. What is beyond me is how Californians, sophisticated suntanned denizens of the Left Coast --at least the ones who aren't living in their car--tolerated for so long a Democratic machine that could elevate Gray Davis to the governorship. This ill tempered, foul mouthed, deeply corrupt incompetent became governor just by hanging around long enough and by being marginally less a loser than Cruz Bustamante or Willie Brown.