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Back your favorite up to a point and then count heads. Get behind the guy who has the best chance of winning. Hold your nose if you must. Improve once you've WON!!

This isn't rocket science.

No, it isn't rocket science.

It is, however, wrong, dead wrong, unforgivably wrong. It's easily seen within NY and within CA. CA's own governorship tells the tale of exactly how wrong-headed this popular theory of yours is.

This stupid theory put Bloomberg in power...and it put Gray Davis in power in his 2nd election...because the same people who made this claim of yours supported Riordan, and then didn't stop undercutting Simon after Riordan lost the primary.

Republican liberal apoligists keep forgetting that it wasn't Californian conservatives that have placed California in it's current situtation, tracking through California's history, it's been the Californian Republican liberals whom have aided and abetted those whom have put that state on the path it's on.

Some of us learn from history.

This stupid theory put Bloomberg in power...

There are two things that put Bloomberg in power:

1) The New York voters' idiotic institution of TERM LIMITS a decade or so ago, when it was the "hip, cool" political fad sweeping the nation. The is little question Rudy would have run again if he could have, and zero question that he would have won.

2) Because the Democrats got caught up in the same sort of pissing match that you describe, not the Republicans. In the primary, the two main RAT candidates both played the race card on each other so venomously (pitting blacks vs Hispanics) that in the end, most Hispanics either stayed home or voted for Bloomberg because they were filled with hatred for the RAT candidate, Mark Green. (And Green would not have been any better than Bloomberg. He probably would have been even worse. New Yorkers were screwed either way.)

(I know some people would make the argument that Herman Badillo lost to Bloomberg in the GOP primary because of a similar "strong conservatism won't fly in NYC" argument, but I don't believe it; Bloomberg won because he blew $20 million of his own cash on the primary alone, and crushed Badillo 72%-28% because of it.)