[ER_in_OC,CA]

The consensus top choice (here in So. Cal) for a person to challenge Boxer is Congressman Chris Cox. He is an articulate Reagan Republican with an axe to grind against Boxer.

Here is my memory: during the Bush transition, he was rumored to be a candidate for a Federal Court Bench appointment, but Boxer & Feinstein blue-slipped/blocked him. (Someone correct my memory.)

In the aftermath, Cox made a veiled comment about how that decision could come back to haunt Boxer. (not his words exactly).

[BushRep]

I think Cox would be assured to get the 42% that the brilliant Bill Simon won.

Boxer, like most other California Democrats, seems stuck in the mid to high-40s%.

Whoever we run needs to get started NOW!

Anyone think we should run Arnie now? Or should we wait until 2006? Arnie would clobber Boxer....