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The letter included this message from Bill Simon :

Dear Friends:

This past Thanksgiving weekend we were reminded that we as Americans have much to be thankful for.

Personally, I was also reminded how much thanks I owe you for the outpouring of support you have shown me over the past 22 months as I have traveled our great state, meeting many of you and talking about my vision for California's future.

Despite the election outcome, our campaign is not ended. California continues to need voices who will speak out and leaders who will address the needs of our people. I will continue talking about issues that are important to Californians and I will continue fighting to renew the California Dream.

I hope you will continue to stand with me in this important fight.

Thank you and may God bless California,

Bill Simon

Regretably Gerald Parsky is still at the helm of the state Republican party, like another Terry McAuliffe. I mistrust what will happen there next until they reach some accommodation between the pro-life conservatives and the country-club pro-aborts. And frankly, the only compromise pro-lifers will accept is to go forward with a pro-life plank, because you can't half-kill a baby. Parsky, hand-picked by Karl Rove, is a pro-abort, and he basically sabotaged and withheld his support from Simon in the last election. He did virtually no fundraising in the state, although fundraising was supposed to be his strong point.

I'm also nervous about that prominent reference to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Nice as Arnold is, and much as I like his movies, he is pro-abort. It's the same defeatist road the Republicans have traveled down numerous times before. He is pro-abort, probably a big spender, and his wife is a Kennedy connection. If he is nominated there will be great excitement at first, and then, as people look at him more closely, a lot of pro-lifers and Christian conservatives will feel betrayed once again and stay home.

They need to get the Hispanic vote, clumsily alienated by pro-abort Pete Wilson. The only way to do that is to appeal to their better instincts, which means to paint the Democrats as the party of abortion and perversion and the Republicans as the party of virtue, morality, life, and family. That will never happen with Gerald Parsky running things.

What a contrast!

One could say that the situation the GOP finds itself in in California is similar, but even worse, than the dimwitcrats find themselves in nationally. Like the dems, the Calif. GOP suffered some great losses in the recent election.

But is Riordan or Simon pointing fingers, whining or crying? No - they instead present a clear, concise case for their point of view. Agree or disagree - at least it's out there.

The difference between this and the recent rantings of Tiny Tom, Algore, and the impeached one couldn't be clearer.

To put it simply - Simon and Riordan are adults adressing adults.

Arnold Schwarzenegger clearly demonstrated his potential in his successful campaign for the passage of Proposition 49, which will expand before- and after-school programs in our public schools.

Where will the money come from for this portion of the "cradle to grave" mentality that is sinking this state to a third world status.