[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Go Simon!

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Ping... and bring all your friends. Nice little op-ed from a couple weeks ago; don't see it posted.

[helmsman]

The man he beat in the primary, Richard Riordan, who could be a major help in raising money, has passed the word that he will not help unless Simon reverses his position on abortion.

Riordan is such an abortion-loving slobbering geezer, it makes me sick. He should go retire his flabby country club ass already, and ease my pain.

Anyway, it doesn't matter if Simon officially reverses his stance on abortion. He's already done it unofficially!

[Conservative til I die]

I think the President will betray Simon in favor of his buddy. Either that, or he'll poo-poo his endorsement in glittering generalities in fear of angering the pro-baby killing voters.

[NormsRevenge]

Some poll says it is DeViou$ by a couple of points .. I Love IT!!!

A Real Horse Race for a change ... We Are Blessed :-)





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[LarryLied]

Richard Riordan, who could be a major help in raising money, has passed the word that he will not help unless Simon reverses his position on abortion.

I can easily see how someone wants nothing to do with a candidate who favors abortion. But the opposite? What is the deal with these people? Why is it so important to them that babies be aborted? In this case it doesn't even make any difference if Simon supports abortion or not. He can't overturn Roe-vrs-Wade. So what gives?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Some big ifs........If Simon beats Davis and gets reelected in 2006, he will be the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

[Torie]

The bit about the party affiliation of the governor having a big impact on the subsequent presidential votes has been disproven time and again. It hardly matters at all, and whether Simon wins or loses will have little impact on Bush's performance in California in 2004.

[Magnum Fan]

Great article, RightOnTheLeftCoast! Relatively little CA political news makes its way to us here in the Northeast, so your posting is a welcome addition. Needless to say, I'll pay particular attention to California on election night.

However, I'm not so sure that Bill Simon faces the same situation today that Ronald Reagan did in 1966. Regretably, the California that produced Reagan and Nixon is long gone. Middle-class Anglos and Asians, bedrock of the CA Republican Party, have left the state in droves for nearly twenty years now. In 1966 Orange County and Bakersfield defined California; now Marin County and East LA fill that role.

Nonetheless, it appears Simon is doing a good job with the hand that's been dealt him. Perhaps he'll stop California's decline and prevent it from becoming "Massachusetts with palm trees." That's a tall order, but I'll keep my fingers crossed.

By the way, although I recognize that California has changed dramatically over the past twenty years, I am not one of those who suggest that Republicans "moderate" their views to fit the new "reality." On the contrary -- it's our duty to present an intelligent, practical alternative to the base leftism promoted by the Democrats and Rockefeller Republicans. Bill Simon seems reasonably comfortable doing that, and I wish him well. Perhaps California is not yet as far gone as I fear.

[Plummz]

This is only feasible if Ashcroft has been discreetly successfully dismantling the Democrat fraud machine out there.

[LibWhacker]

Richard Riordan, who could be a major help in raising money, has passed the word that he will not help unless Simon reverses his position on abortion.

Imagine that . . . Being so much in favor of murdering babies that you'd spite your own party to keep the pogrom going.

[Destructor]

I'll believe it when I see it happen!

[RightWhale]

Go Simon!

Does he have a chance? Another thread says he is down 14 points, not up 7 points.