[absalom01]

Simon's hope is to erase the Republicans' image as an organization of scolds and moralists, and turn it into a party of economic opportunity.

Now, wait just a darn minute there. It's the Dem's who are the stridently moralistic scolds, telling us not to smoke, not to water our lawns, not to eat fatty foods, the list goes on and on and on. And the Rep's have ALWAYS been the advocates of economic opportunity, especially for the less well off. It's the Dems who rob a working family's paycheck to pay for the union pork that they dole out, the Rep's who (generally) try remove the barriers of red-tape to economic growth.

This newspeak really frosts me.

[ElkGroveDan]

True, Simon is a deeply religious man who helped found a "family-friendly" television network. But it doesn't necessarily follow that he believes it's the government's job to set the standard for righteousness. He needs to make that point clear.

It's the Democrats who want all kinds of PC speech codes. There already is a liberal-progressive friendly TV network, it's called PBS and it's paid-for by everyone's tax dollars.

Simon doesn't need to "make that point clear." Like everything else in his life he has already demonstrated how he thinks things like family-friendly TV should be done. He put up his OWN money and started PAX TV.

What a perfect example for what Republicans stand for -- the free market. If you don't like the way someone is doing something, i.e television, then put up your own money and do it the way you'd like. Liberals, on the other hand, shake down the rest of us to pay for the things they want.

[ElkGroveDan]

PING

[Sabertooth]

Weintraub writes for the Sacramento Bee.

Is it any surprise that illegal immigration is nowhere on his radar?

[Dan from Michigan]

Simon's hope is to erase the Republicans' image as an organization of scolds and moralists, and turn it into a party of economic opportunity

That's what has to be done, and I think there is one shot left in California. Simon is the last chance.

[TheAngryClam]

I liked this article! Weintraub might be a whiny liberal most of the time, but he's dead on right about this- Simon's brand of conservatism IS attractive to California.

Conservative Commentary on Berkeley Life

[hattend]

BTTT for later read

[Consort]

Scolds and Moralists

I guess he's not going after the S & M vote.

[Brian Allen]

Simon must find a way to convince Californians that he is not the right-wing monster the Davis ads will depict.

Not of course that it would occur to the audience or to any of the players -- let alone to greyout Davis -- that there has never been a "right-wing monster."

Every monster there has ever been worthy of the name, from National Socialist Workers Party Fuerher Hitler though Union of Socialist Soviet Republics' Stalin, the mass-murdering "communists" Mao and Pol Pot, the Ba'ath Socialist Soddom Hisson, Havana's billionaire butcher "Communist" Castro, Yassle Dashle, America's first dictator, Beezelbubba KKKli'ton and his fearsome and loathesome spouse Bruno -- every single one of them -- a stinking psychopathological, serially-sexually-predatory, lying, thieving, murdering, gangster bastard posing as a left wing totalitarian.

[Antoninus]

But Simon must persuade these same voters that he does not intend to use government as a tool to meddle in peoples' private lives. True, Simon is a deeply religious man who helped found a "family-friendly" television network. But it doesn't necessarily follow that he believes it's the government's job to set the standard for righteousness. He needs to make that point clear.

"It doesn't necessarily follow?" No, it doesn't follow at all. Indeed, the approach Simon took was to use the system as it is currently set up to offer an alternative to the filth that currently litters the airwaves. How does that in any way equal "theocratic police state?"

Bill Simon doesn't need to make anything clear. If American citizens reject a candidate because they think he's too moral, too ethical, or too religious, then they deserve exactly the kind of leaders they'll get: amoral dirtbag scum (aka Democrats).