[CarmelValleyite]

Riordan's previous "team" underestimated the viciousness of Davis and company. Davis attacked Riordan so terribly with false statements before our last primary, and Riordan's team didn't effectively retaliate, believing it wouldn't matter too much. Wrong.

So... instead we got Simon in the general election who, despite votes from many of the previously PRO-RIORDAN crowd,including ME (I had to hold my nose to vote for Simon), caused us to have Davis again and the rest is history.

That, Mr. CCC, is the situation in a nutshell. Many mainstream Repubs. in CA voted for your man, Simon, while many more said "no way" and voted for Davis.

[FairOpinion]

"So... instead we got Simon in the general election who, despite votes from many of the previously PRO-RIORDAN crowd,including ME (I had to hold my nose to vote for Simon), caused us to have Davis again and the rest is history. "

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Exactly. The tragedy is that they haven't learned a thing and insist on repeating the same mistakes over and over and over -- to the great delight of the Democrats,

[CounterCounterCulture]

LOL! Riordan couldn't handle Gray Davis in two short months and somehow you think he could have done better with eight more months of Davis attacking him (and much of what he said was the truth). Riordan would have lost by a greater margin than Tom Campbell's loss to Dianne Feinstein. But Davis was only a small part of Riordan's problem. Riordan's mouth was his undoing. Somebody needed to remind him who to appeal to in a primary. He was handed a 40 point lead with GOP and media backing and he fumbled the ball. If Simon is a LOSER, then RIORDAN is that and more. Snicker.

I made the "pragmatic" (a commonly used term these days) choice in Simon and I had said that the three main candidates (Simon, Riordan, and Jones) had a tough fight ahead of them. I wanted somebody better, but McClintock wasn't running for that position.