Governor Schwarzenegger and Kalifornia.

In what I believe is a brave move in California, Republicans have announced that they will probably not nominate Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as candidate this time around.

This is for several reasons. From Day One, the Governor has slept with the enemy, literally. His wife, Maria Shriver, is related so closely to the Kennedy Klan that if he doesn’t do as he’s told, he sleeps on the couch. We know what he chooses.

Next, his appointment of Kennedy (no relation) to Chief of Staff is appointing a Democrat, another sleeping with the enemy (only in a manner of speaking in that case).

The Special Election of 2005 turned out to be a fiasco of the proper move with an improper handling. Yes, it was right to call a special election on the issues named. They were worthwhile, long overdue, they were the fulfillment of a promise made by the Governor, and they were resonant with the values of those most affected, such as Nurses.

In that election, the failure of the Governor was twofold: he tragically underestimated the power and sway of the opposition and he did not meet it (thereby losing the support of those affected, such as Nurses) and he then surrendered to the opposition in the aftermath in a terribly misguided move to reach accord. He is entirely oblivious to the fact that he doesn’t have to compromise in order to lead the state out of its dilemmas. Compromise in Kalifornia means keeping things in the status quo.

His stance on weapons has been lukewarm and very mistaken in spite of the fact that more states of the union are not only adopting concealed carry of weapons (now numbering 38 states or more than two-thirds of the states of the union) but more experienced states are now loosening their concealed carry latitude and broadening their stand-your-ground doctrine in personal self-defense. It works in fighting crime more than anything tried in Kalifornia.

For a long time, I’ve written that the Democrats, themselves, put the K in Kalifornia, and I've specifically excluded the Governor from that indictment, placing my emphasis entirely on the unending Dems’ confiscatory rule over the state, taking undue advantage of what we had believed in good faith was the Governor's good-heartedness and high spirit.

I hate the thought, but it’s time to accept the fact that the Governor has joined them. Or worse: he’d been with them all along in a series of stealth moves. His judgment is no longer a puzzle to Republicans.

The People did not recall Gray Davis and send Arnold Schwarzenegger to Sacramento to agree with the democrats: they sent him to get them to agree with the People. This isn't happening, and some officials are even referring to the Governor as Gray Schwarzenegger.

The Governor’s comment at the news that he would probably not be nominated for re-election was that he wasn’t going to worry about it and that it would die down after the Convention.

Probably not.

Do you ever get the idea that among the Republicans, there are already a lot of stealth officials working for the other side? Does the name McCain come to mind?

Isn’t it important to come to accept this?

The new lineup of candidates in California (with a big dose of Vitamin C) looks brighter in more conservative values and the trust of those candidates sticking firm to those values. These are the issues important to more households than not, both parties, on privacy, homeland security, the border, violence and business. It's time for a dose of Vitamin C -- for Conservatives to put the C back in California.

Many of these new candidates have a very good platform: business-friendly state, with less abuses to small business. The platform is not one of so-called fairness, but more one of justice in business and personal taxes, business fees and penalties; fathers' rights and family-friendly changes; loosening of self-defense laws, including a push for concealed carry in California (I like that one). Concealed carry is permitted in California, but only by a permit granted by your county Sheriff; it’s too spotty this way. Making it a state-wide law would be a real breakthrough in making the state safer.

The rule of those who put and who keep the K in Kalifornia is largely based on the high crime rate that pays dividends as it does in New York, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Crime is profitable – crisis is profitable – for officials.

Time to change that. Because as Kalifornia goes, so goes the nation.

And one way to change things is to put the brakes on current office-holders, starting at the top.

What’s in your state?

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John Longenecker is author of Transfer Of Wealth. His website is www.TransferOfWealth.net