Politics is strange. And California republican politics is schizophrenic.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sneers at and ridicules the California Republican Party. Party regulars aren't too fond of the post-partisan Governor, either. Personally, I agree with Jennifer Nelson's recommendation that we divorce ourselves from the Governor and toss that tax-hiking charlatan off the CRP Executive Committee.

Which leads me to wonder why the CRP is serving as a conduit for the Governor's package of propositions for the May 19 special election that are meant to prop up the recent farcical "solution" to the budget deficit.

On Feb. 20, the California Republican Party deposited $250,000 into the governor Schwarzenegger's California Dream Team campaign account.

A few days later, the "Dream Team" plunked $80,000 into the "Yes On 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E and 1F" campaign.
In other words, the same CRP that voted not to send out mail for the Quisling 6 Republicans who voted for the $13.5 billion tax increase is funding an initiaitve -- Prop. 1A -- that will lock those tax hikes into place even longer?
 
It is any wonder California Republicans like myself are becoming increasingly disenchanted with and cynical about the GOP? Just as the national Republicans are recovering the senses and principles, our state GOP remains in thrall to a governor who is steadily draining the philosophical blood out of the party like some political vampire.

Why would any rank-and-file Republican want to give the CRP a single solitary dime, when it could very well be used to promote a phony spending cap that keeps our taxes higher for longer?

What a train wreck.

Vote "no" on the whole misbegotten stew of initiatives on May 19.