[DoughtyOne]

To the Left, the one word that trumps all discussion is "compassion."

Like "Compassionate" Conservative?  I rest my case.

California has been destroyed by one of the two major political parties.  What may surprise some people, is that it wasn't the Democrats.  It was the Republican Party in California that royally screwed the state into the ground.

In 2002 Conservative Bill Simon ran for Governor.  Bill didn't get any support from the Republican party leadership, didn't get but one visit from Bush during his campaign, and didn't get any major funding.  He still came within five points of beating Gray Davis, a 2.5% swing vote to victory.

One year later and Arnold Schwarzenegger was being groomed to run for governor during the recall.  It's just shocking how incredibly little the party did for Simon and how much it did for Schwarzenegger.

If Simon would have been elected, he would have been handed a state with a small manageable deficit.  He could have set about to get things in order to avoid higher deficits and redice the existing deficit.  Instead, we had Schwarzenegger foisted off on us.  The rest is history.  We're now something like $40 billion dollars worse off in debt.

By ignoring Bill Simon, the California Repbulican Party leadership screwed this state worse than it has ever been screwed.  It reaches the level of declaring those people California's public enemies number 1 through...

[Ol' Sparky]

In 2002 Conservative Bill Simon ran for Governor. Bill didn't get any support from the Republican party leadership, didn't get but one visit from Bush during his campaign, and didn't get any major funding. He still came within five points of beating Gray Davis, a 2.5% swing vote to victory.

And, don't forget that every poll had McClintock beating Bustamante easily in a head-to-head matchup. But geniuses like Sean Hannity decided that the lesser-of-two-liberals strategy was a good idea and used the full weight of his show to support Schwarzenegger.

[stonie]

I recall that the late Bill Simon had a falling out with Jerry Parsky. Did the latter have anything to do with the nonsupport of the GOP for the son?