The real question is why you'd bother to type this anti-Simon predictive rhetoric if you truly didn't care.
If the race is already over, why has Simon led four of five polls? :-) Why does the Political Oddsmaker list this "sure thing" Davis as only having a 51.7% chance at re-election?
You misunderstand. I care deeply about what he's done to ruin the fiscal house in my newly adopted state. I simply am tempering it with a dose of realism. Simon is a neophyte who is going to be chewed up by a scum-weasel Governor who showed his smear tactics with the primary-election ads. The GOP does not return smears with smears. They "observe the rules" of civility. And they don't sell themselves, in the clutch, as anything but Socialism Lite.
And this Simon is not his father. Nobody knows what he is standing for. He can't even get past the inertia of the reporters' preferences at the Orange County Register, fer gawdsakes. That's the mildly anti-statist medium around here, almost the only one.
Gray Davis is the bargain-basement Faust who's sold his soul to every group he can pander to, and the people -- of all political stripes -- are sheep. I feel sorrow for the vanished Republic, including here, but I am also a realist. And I'm tired of dashed hopes.
"The race is not always to the swift ... but that's the way to bet."
-- Damon Runyon, rewriting Ecclesiastes
"Rules? In a knife fight?"
-- Richard Kiel in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"