Posted on 02/01/2002 9:29:46 AM PST by thoughtfully_conservative
Riordan is for gun control as much as Davis is and favors capital punishment less than Davis does.
1) Is it human?
2) Is it from around here?
Saliva tests are important in California politics. My major qualms about Riordan are that he is definitely a flake, plus a sneaking suspicion that he could do a guest appearance on the X-Files without needing any makeup. He also has a firm opinion that he is Mr. Wonderful, a temper, and some difficulty orienting himself in space and time, as in:
"Mr. Mayor, we're in Sacramento, not San Diego, and it's Thursday, not Friday." "You're fired!"
A whole lot of Californians have difficulty living on this planet. As an example, I have a son at UC Santa Cruz (my alma mater) who is transferring to a college back east, hopefully the University of Chicago or Georgetown, because he correctly feels that almost everyone at UCSC are from other planets. It's not that they're lefties. Lefties he can deal with. They're vegetarians, and militant ones at that. He's heard enough about 9/11 being caused by meat-eating.
IMO the good things about Riordan are:
1) He's not Gray Davis.
2) He has a chance of beating Gray Davis.
That is good enough for me. And no one else has any chance of beating Gray Davis.
George W. Bush is a conservative in thought and action. He TALKS like the compassionate conservative that he is, but he is a CONSERVATIVE. A liberal Republican wouldn't be as God-fearing and humble as our great president.
GWB is pro-life; he believes that there is a higher authority than the ballot box to which he must answer. He is a great and noble man who makes difficult decisions through weighing all the pros and cons and deciding what is the moral and just thing to do.
Riordan is a political opportunist who not only is a complete and total liberal, he has no convictions to speak of. He is "personally" opposed to abortion, but women can go ahead and kill their babies and government should pay for it to. He came out against gay marriage in the debate AFTER publically saying that he supported gay marriage. Then, he said that he would decide on the issue "after he is elected".
Riordan has given more money to Democrats than Republicans including Gray Davis and Barbara Boxer. He called Bill Clinton the greatest leader of the free world. He thinks that going door-to-door to collect guns for the homes of law-abiding citizens is a good idea.
Riordan is NOTHING like GWB and whatever idiot wrote this should be denounced from the tallest building.
Riordan CAN NOT beat Gray Davis. He is too liberal and has changed his mind on all the important issues.
Bill Simon CAN beat Gray Davis because he offers voters a REAL CHOICE, not a "ME TOO" candidacy.
He is no John McCain!
Riordan is trying to get along through wholescale surrender to the Democrats.
People need to realize that Riordan is NOT a moderate Republcian, nor is he any kind of Republican. He is a far-left liberal who checked the R on his voter registration card. That's it.
When you have someone like Riordan who supports and endorses the worst liberals in the races that really count (Barbabra Boxer, Diane Feinstein), when you have a candidate who disagrees with his party on each and every important issue, you have a member of the fifth column. It's that simple.
Someone take this guy's word processor away from him before he hurts himself.
Yes indeed !!!!
Bill Simon CAN beat Gray Davis because he offers voters a REAL CHOICE, not a "ME TOO" candidacy.
The next conservative Republican to be elected Governor of California will be a female Hispanic. Bill Simon is a white male. The California GOP committed demographic suicide in 1994.
Somehow I can tell you too can do a guest appearance on the X-Files without makeup.
What is that supposed to mean?
Do you think Riordan will hire any Republicans? He didn't in LA, in fact he fired all his Republican campaign staff as soon as he got in there.
Do you think he'll help Republicans get elected to office? He hasn't before. He has helped Barbara Boxer and Maxine Waters. Are they your kind of candidates?
Do you think Riordan will be a fiscal conservative? He has proposed taxing the Internet. Even the far lefties don't have the socialist courage yet to do that.
Perhaps you think politics is like a baseball game and all that matters is that the guy who wears the same cap as you wins. Well you are wrong my friend. It is about policies and new laws and freedom and liberty. Those are the kinds of things that matter in life. That is why I am involved in this as are the majority of folks on Free Republic.
When your "Republican" Riordan signs the order to begin the door-to-door roundup of handguns, as he has promised then perhaps you will realize that what a candidate says is much more important than which jersey he pulls on before the big game.
Bill Simon can and will win. The people of this state aren't as bad as you would like people to believe. Theya re just waiting for someone who cares as deeply about the things that are important to them.
California's silent special interest is about to wake up. Average hard working God-fearing, tax-paying families will go to the polls in droves this November. Watch. It will be wonderful.
Unfortunately you are right. This DIABLo (Democrat In All But Label) makes John McCain look like Ronald Reagan. He supports Democrats on social issues, he supports Democrats on economic issues, he supports Democrats in elections -- he is a Democrat in every way, except that he has taken the Republican label, and is running in the GOP primary.
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