[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.

[B Knotts]

I no longer think it's a strategy.

I now believe that liberal Republicans oppose conservatives because...well...they're liberals.

So, they would rather have a liberal Democrat in office than a conservative Republican. Duh.