[Sabertooth]

The Simon "campaign" should serve as a reminder to us. Bush's political instinct made him support Riordan -- not Simon. Turns out Bushie's instinct was good as gold again. They shoulda listened. Riordan was definitely more electable than Simon.

If that instinct was "good as gold," would Riordan have lost the primary?

[berned]

If that instinct was "good as gold," would Riordan have lost the primary?

What matters is not who "wins the primary" but who wins the ELECTION. Dukakis won all his primaries, then proved to be unelectable in the election. California, I fear, is too liberal for Simon.

Just last night I had dinner with an ultra-liberal friend from California. She would have voted for Riordan. She would NOT vote for Simon. When you add to that the fact that Simon has unarguably run a poor campaign, I simply made the observation that it is looking like GWB's instinct about "what would fly" in Calif was right.