No
They are trying to get Republican voters to vote for Simon or McClintock to split the votes so Bustamante gets the plurality. It is the only logical strategy that can work. Davis is going to be recalled.
Question :
If the Democrats realized Davis was going to be recalled, why have they only put Davis's underling on the ballot ?
Answer :
The Progressively Fascist Democrats are in complete meltdown in California. They have not a clue as to what they are doing or what is about to happen to them. In the state of California they have won elections and controlled all the major electable offices by smear campaign tactics. Their fiscal political ideals have been rejected by the public but they forced their way into office threw smear tactics. As a result of their fiscal governance and failed ideology the states fiscal budget is wrecked, the states bond rating is wrecked, they have driven thousands of businesses away and driven large population blocks away. They were recently caught conspiring to create a fiscal budget crisis just so they could convince (or extort) the Californian public to amend the 2/3 requirement to raise taxes. They have fought the recall every way possible. Attempted numerous lawsuits to slow the recall and all have failed. At the very edge of the cliff the progressively fascist herd is running over, what do they do ? Install a Davis puppet on the ballot who asks Democrats to vote NO on the recall but YES on him. I guess in some alternative universe that type of logic might be called democratic. And to top this all off, they begin their smear tactic on Arnold by threatening him with 'real bullets'. When Arnold says he will clean Sacramento of the corrupt politicians, how have these same corrupt politicians responded ? With threats of 'real bullets'. This my friends is the very definition of political corruption.