Posted on 03/04/2007 9:18:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Considering how close Simon came to beating Davis, even after the most incompetent campaign in ages and with the finance director of his own Party sabotaging the effort, that assertion is void of reality.
Excuses, excuses, excuses. "If only..." is the cry of the spin doctor. How about some reality for ya?
Davis beat Simon by FIVE percentage points. That, my friend, is not "close".
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum.
Whenever evil wins, it is only by default:
by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
AYN RAND
It is 325,000 votes with 1.6 million registered Republicans failing to vote. That my friend is a failure of GOTV that directly resulted from Gerry Parsky's refusal to fund it.
Parsky has a long standing feud against the Simon family.
Davis' approval numbers had dropped to a disastrous 36%; by the time he beat Simon he was only up to 41%--and Simon lost by five points. I understand your point about Simon being eminently preferable, but come on, losing by that much when Davis was in the toilet isn't close--I mean, Davis got MORE of a percentage in the race than he had approval numbers.
This certainly doesn't help with Tom McClintock's possible future political ambitions.
The only other factor was a bogus lawsuit that Simon had been involved with dirty dealings for which he was eventually exonerated only too late, but that is just your usual Democrat dirty trick Simon should have been able to handle. It was a full court press.
Simon's weakness was that he is too nice a guy.
The point is that this is a State that will vote conservative upon occasion. It did with Prop 22, Prop 209, and Prop 227. It bought Schwarzenegger with the bogus promise that he would cut spending. Tom McClintock remains the most popular politician in the state, even if he has lost narrowly. Again, Arnold cut off the money for his campaign too.
I never said a word about the Republican party's lack of support--because it has nothing to do with anything.
The point is, Davis was a horrible, horrible candidate, and Simon was a visible candidate, not some Green Party nobody. If Simon couldn't deal with his own PARTY, how the heck is he supposed to be able to deal with the democrat legislature?
All this whining about how Simon was such a victim doesn't change the most important fact--NOT that the Republicans didn't support him (I never brought that up, because it's not relevant), but that he couldn't beat as damaged a candidate as Davis.
Sorry your personal feelings for Simon (who seems like a great guy) lead you to all this spin, but if he can't outwit the Republicans, what good is he in a Democrat-controlled state?
And he claims Reagan as his idol, right? Kind of like Rudy! Duncan Hunter in '08!
That's why Hunter criticism that he isn't a "Senator" or "Governor" can shove it! Duncan Hunter should not be wasted with California.
Has it ever been? People had the same complaint thirty years ago - the only difference is that California coastal real estate has gotten even more desirable over time. The politics that have had the greatest negative effect on property values (and "negative" is in the eye of the beholder) stem from local NIMBY-ism, not from state Democrats irresponsible tax-and-spend policies.
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