and where might you be from?
Gee, for a Democrat, you seem to have a firm grasp of the obvious. But have you happened to notice that your party does not feel that way? No Democrat is willing to take on Red Davis.
The Democratic party is hopelessly corrupt. The solution is NOT to have the Republican party espouse Democratic principles. We have already seen where that takes a party: it has leaders like Clinton, Gore, Daschle, Gephart and Davis. We don't need another party like that.
The solution is to throw the Democrats out of the Republican party. No more RINO's. I would rather lose with Simon than win with Riordan. Because Riordan is really a Demoncrat, espousing Democratic priniciples and positions, who will continue the Democratic tradition of running CA further and further into the ground.
Eventually, things will get bad enough here that people will demand a change. Republicans can only offer that change if they stand for something different than the Democrats. That doesn't happen with a Riordan nomination.