Let's get it straight... Its like the infantry launching a strike to coordinates that were given it over the radio... by the authorized director of coordinates... only to find out those coordinates were directed at headquarters.Wrong. The speed with which the "pro-family" groups moved on this implies that either (a) they really do not engage brain before opening mouth, or (b) they knew this was coming, and did nothing to warn Simon, because said warning would interfere with their agenda.
From my experience with one of these groups, I'm inclined to believe the latter.
The pro-family members of the Republican Party were upset to see Simon's Campaign Headquarters put out that release.
No, they weren't upset.
They were f***ing ecstatic, because it gave them an excuse to engage in vote-splitting rhetoric.
I'm more familiar with those a$$holes than you are--they DELIBERATELY plotted to get a tax-and-spend, pro-gay-marriage, pro-abort extremist elected in place of a fiscal conservative who didn't support state-funded abortion (or, for that matter, any state-funded non-emergency medical care).
And the damndest things always seem to happen when these "pro-family" groups are treated as friends by campaign managers. Internal campaign documents usually have a habit of turning up in Democrat hands, usually right after the "pro-family" group publicly flips to the zero-chance third-party fruitcake.
Sorry. I was there. I am engaged with the Republican Party central committee in a California County. When I saw the article come out, my first reaction was to state to the rest of our committee that Simon had better get a reaction out very quickly to refute that statement, or I was going to withdraw my support for him and work on other candidate's campaigns. Most of the activists in our County agreed with me.
For days, we waited for Simon to make a statement. His campaign took close to a week to refute the article. That week took a lot of wind out of his sails. We were very glad when the story finally came out because we WANTED to believe the guy, but we could not believe how long it took to do so.
Later, as the truth came out, it became apparent that Simon was incompetent to manage a campaign, naive for believing that Riordan's people would actually help him succeed, and a victim of sabotage.
But to blame him... or the conservatives... while letting the actual evil-doer walk... that is ludicrous!
The LCR has only one objective, to undermine the Republican Party and normalize homosexual activity. Face it, they realize that as long as 16 year olds think homosexuality is wrong... they have a LOT more work to bring kids into their fold. Once they get it normalized, they can solicit the kids with much more ease...