[evilsmoker]

Are the liberals in the GOP deliberately trying to sabotage the Simon campaign so they can "prove" to GOP primary voters that we should've gone with their guy Riordan?? I can think of no other reason for these constant media stories (always sprinkled with quotes from "moderate" Republicans) portraying Simon as some sort of right-wing kook.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[eureka!]

From the Chronicle, no friend of ours...

[Map Kernow]

Sounds like the California Republican party alright. Why d'you think Ron Reagan formulated his "Eleventh Commandment"? It's because California Republicans have long been a bunch of petty, wheedling backbiters and backstabbers.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Are the liberals in the GOP deliberately trying to sabotage the Simon campaign so they can "prove" to GOP primary voters that we should've gone with their guy Riordan??

this sounds very much like what happened to schundler in new jersey with their rino canidate who lost to him in the primary (franks I believe was his name can remember for sure though)

[Poohbah]

Are the liberals in the GOP deliberately trying to sabotage the Simon campaign so they can "prove" to GOP primary voters that we should've gone with their guy Riordan??

So why is a conservative the one doing the trashing?

Reagan had this problem--it's why he formulated the 11th Commandment.

[Redcloak]

Are the liberals in the GOP deliberately trying to sabotage the Simon campaign so they can "prove" to GOP primary voters that we should've gone with their guy Riordan??

I think that you just got it in one. Parsky is one of those RINOs who'd rather see a liberal Democrat in office than a conservative Republican. The biggest problem is, however, that their strategy doesn't even work. I can't recall a single RINO winning statewide office here; so it's not like they can point to election wins and claim that this is what's needed to win in California. Parsky's "Dem-lite" strategy has been a miserable failure in the past and it will continue to be a miserable failure.

[Gophack]

You're partially right, but I think the press is trying to blow it up into something big ... they LOVE when Republicans fight.

Democrats fight, too -- all the time. The press just doesn't cover it.

I do agree that many liberal Republicans want to say "I told you so" if Simon loses. Fortunately, I think that Simon's campaign consultant is smart and doing the right things. He doesn't have control (unfortunately) of the CRP and some of the people that are coming from there.

[Charlotte Corday]

Former President Gerald Ford weighed in with his concern on the party fight and its effects on Simon. Appearing before the National Press Club, he appeared to warn conservatives to back off.

"We took a terrible beating in California in the last election because our candidates were much too far on the right," Ford said. "It's only when we got pushed way over to the far right that we lost. And we aren't going to win again till we get back in the middle, period."

Yeah Jer, just like you won big in '76 after knocking off that far right guy (what was his name now??) in the primaries...

[Timesink]

Whenever a "news" article is merely about a situation the writer implies COULD cause trouble for some Republican, that's 100% proof that the article is a hit piece by a Democratic author, not actual news.

[nickcarraway]

We took a terrible beating in California in the last election because our candidates were much too far on the right," Ford said. "It's only when we got pushed way over to the far right that we lost. And we aren't going to win again till we get back in the middle, period."

So by Ford's logic he is too far to the right of Reagan, Nixon and Bush, because he lost and they won?

[Dan from Michigan]

"We took a terrible beating in California in the last election because our candidates were much too far on the right," Ford said. "It's only when we got pushed way over to the far right that we lost. And we aren't going to win again till we get back in the middle, period."

Gerry Ford couldn't even beat Carter...as an incumbent.

[NormsRevenge]

a classic GOP circular firing squad

Im with Steele , SkReW CARP or CRP or whoever this Team Cal IS.. A bunch of impostors , RINOs if nothing else it would appear.
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists



GO SIMON

[Digger]

I smell Bush & Rove here & I certainly do not like it. Ten years from now I see no viable Pubbie party with their views.