[BlackElk]

Rove has the president's ear. As proven by Simon in the California GOP primary last year, we have the issues and votes in GOP primaries.

[B Knotts]

True, and Simon turned out to be not the ideal candidate (although, I still maintain that Riordan would have been worse than reelecting Davis; heck...now we're going to get a do-over!), but I got the feeling that even had Simon been a better candidate, Gerry Parsky would have given him zero help, just because he wasn't in the "image" he wants to present.