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"
Have you even visited his website? I don't find him difficult to figure out, and I'm three time zones away. Simon's message is getting drowned out by all the negative Gray Davis publicity, but that's a good thing. Let Simon concentrate on raising funds now, while nobody's paying attention. You'll hear more from him come Labor Day. I honestly don't think our busy President would waste his time at two fundraisers for a neophyte who doesn't stand a chance. :-)
I'm more concerned about the CA GOP getting its act together than I am about Bill Simon's message.