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Your knowledge of what happened in that campaign is severely lacking. Basically Rove put much of the money in Parsky's hands. Parsky extorted Simon's original campaign manager into signing a letter supporting the Log Cabin Republicans, which PO'd Simon's footsoldiers. He then starved the campaign deliberately and then shoveled a small fraction of what he'd promised to favored consultants Wilson/Jones and Ed Rollins who flushed it with almost criminal incompetence.

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.

Hey guess what? Someone can have a different opinion than you and still have plenty of knowledge about the situation. Case in point: Simon vs. Davis.

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?