Posted on 07/14/2003 12:08:56 PM PDT by TheAngryClam
Let me be perfectly clear. I want to win a #@$@# election and throw the @#$@$ Democrats out of the governor's mansion (which ever one Davis is staying in.) If a Republican comes along that can do this even friggin Richard friggin Riordan then fine. I CAN'T STAND ANOTHER 5 YEARS OF DEMOCRATIC INEPTITUDE. Now if you live in California you can respectfully disagree. If you don't YOUR DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!
I have a $100 and an online escrow account that says he's not smart guy. Care to place a small wager?
I actually live in the Bay Area if California. It says so on my profile page. It doesn't say where you live.
Ontario.
No. Canada. Of course California.
Dan,
Remember the "Log Cabin questionnaire" fiasco last August, and how Sal Russo ended up taking the blame for that?
I would genuinely appreciate it, if you could refrain from posting on the board, if you cannot restrain yourself from making arguments based on demonstrably factually inaccurate statements like the above.
This Recall would not have been necessary, if B.S. actually took that blame, and dropped out of the race when many in the state party asked him to (in favor of another Republican), following the "photogate" fiasco.
Kind of like how CIA Director George Tenet is taking the blame now? I assume you are making the same criticisms of President Bush, that you do of Simon?
I would appreciate it if you would do the same. Bill Simon ENDLESSLY took credit for that screw up. Sal was ACCUSED of that by every one in the media but Bill Simon said, hey the buck stops with me and I'm responsible.
GO get the radio clips and the newspaper interviews.
By the way I find that to be amost admirable trait and the sign of a quality leader, especially when it wasn't his fault.
I would appreciate it if you would quit thinking of yourself as the arbitor of recent California history. Of course you can do whatever you want since, what I "appreciate" doesn't has no bearing on what you say or do.
Well then explain what he did for Simon other than toss the winning media strategy in the garbage can when he came on board.
I would appreciate it if you would do the same. Bill Simon ENDLESSLY took credit for that screw up. Sal was ACCUSED of that by every one in the media but Bill Simon said, hey the buck stops with me and I'm responsible." ?
Dan,
Your statement is contradicted by the documentation; per:
"Media Distorts Simon's Stand on Gay Issue
Ignoring California's Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon's top campaign aide Sal Russo's statement that he, and not his boss, sent a completed questionnaire to a gay political group, the State's liberal media is attacking Simon for allegedly caving in to pressure by that terrible conservative "religious right" and changing his position on so-called "gay rights."
Simon told reporters that he neither saw nor signed a controversial survey on gay issues that has become the latest problem for his troubled campaign and blamed his staff for sending it out without his knowledge, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
"A lot of these questionnaires go out," the GOP candidate for governor told the Chronicle. "I don't see them all before they go out. I didn't see this, I didn't review it."
Source: Newsmax 9/5/2002; at:
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/9/5/153748
Frankly, I don't give a damn about the subject matter, except to show that Bill is a "blamer" and not a "the buck stops here" kinda guy.
Sorry, but your arguments have lost credibility with me.
Oh my gosh, really? What ever am I to do? I will have to quit FR forever now because I have no credibility with research99....please have mercy, I want to be LOVED by every self-appointed authority on California politics.
You're the only one I know who has ever cited Newsmax as a source. Pull up all the other publications and find the talkshow transcripts. You will see that Simon accepted the blame for that screw-up many, many times. A lot of people took the blame along with, and after Sal. In the long run Simon reasserted over and over again that he would take responsibility for that.
Now please leave me alone while I go somewhere to lament my lost credibility and have a good cry.
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