Governor takes Republicans to task

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered an indictment Friday of his own California Republican Party during an address at its annual fall convention in Indian Wells, suggesting that the state GOP has a defeatist mentality and calling on the party to pursue independent voters in order to regain power. Sacramento Bee.

The Republican governor has long been at odds with his party's conservative base, but the tone in his Friday speech was more strikingly critical of California Republicans than at any other time in his governorship.

"In movie terms, we are dying at the box office," Schwarzenegger declared, according to prepared text of his remarks. "We are not filling the seats."