[A CA Guy]

This getting Simon in then losing to Davis was a major concern I had in the primary.

It has come home to hit us hard here.

Maybe this will teach all of us at FR a lesson for the future. Sometimes we have to go with the lesser of two evils on the way to a good person that we want.

This has been like throwing your vote away on Libertarians.
Very bad for California.

Even SUVs might remain under attack!

[A CA Guy]

I'm off this thread, Davis/Simon gets me too agrivated.

[truth_seeker]

This getting Simon in then losing to Davis was a major concern I had in the primary.

It was the plan, for Davis to assist the Republicans in getting Simon to be the candidate.

Little did the Republicans know just what a weak candidate Simon would be. I am not talking about Simon's issue positions, policies. I am talking about running a common sense, competent campaign.

So far, he and his team appear to be incompetent. They remind me of Palestinians "...never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity..."

[Commie Basher]

My gut told me to vote for Riordan, who I liked even if I disagreed with. But FReepers convinced me to vote for the "conservative" candidate, not the "RINO."

Well, my fault. No one put a gun to my head and forced me to vote for Simon. But in retrospect, I wonder if Riordan might have been another Guilliani. Not all that conservative, but an effective Republican, and as far to the right as his constituency would tolerate.

[LS]

I'm not in California, but I have to say that this after-the-fact Simon bashing is so much BS.

UNLESS YOU, or anyone else, KNEW that Simon had this 1) income tax problem and this lawsuit, then Simon was the right choice.

Riordan is no different than Davis. New Yorkers are seeing now that Bloomberg is barely different than a Dem---enacting Nazi-style anti-smoking laws.

If Simon loses, so be it. The media will screech that it was because he was a "conservative," except that he was leading BIG TIME until these latest revelations came out.

However, Simon owes his supporters for failing to give them a heads-up that this stuff was coming. In this day and age, I cannot believe anyone, let alone a Republican, let alone someone who is supposed to be a CONSERVATIVE Republican, would run with such baggage.