Rush Limbaugh: Simon the next Reagan? Radio host urges governor candidate to stick with conservatism

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, March 7, 2002 | By Joe Kovacs

[JohnHuang2]

Quote of the Day by MoscowMike

[JohnHuang2]

[Mo1]

As of 8:05pm CST, 3/6/2002
Freeper State (Never Never Land) .. $4,872.45
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Texas (925) --- $2,885
New York (329) -- $1,950
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Virginia (365) ---$1,499
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Washington State (254) ---$1,085
Michigan (196) ---$852
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Missouri (179) ---$700
Wisconsin (141) ---$700
Minnesota (119) ---$675
Montana (14) ---$600
Alaska (44) ---$529
Maryland (221) ---$500
Colorado (153) ---$475
Indonesia (2) ---$400
Tennessee (172) ---$360
Kentucky (88) ---$350
Oklahoma (120) ---$340
Louisiana (98) ---$320
New Hampshire (46) ---$300
Oregon (122) ---$270
Indiana (143) ---$250
Alabama (104) ---$230
Kansas (90) ---$205
South Carolina (106) ---$200
Hawaii (25) ---$180
Delaware (18) ---$180
Mississippi (62) ---$175
Maine (34) ---$175
Arkansas (60) ---$170
Utah (47) ---$159
West (by God) Virginia (34) ---$159
Nevada (55) ---$150
New Mexico (61) ---$125
Spain (4) ---$100
Nebraska (42) ---$75
Vermont (11) ---$65
Iowa (60) ---$65
England (44) ---$50
Australia (15) ---$50
Chile (4) ---$50
Overseas Armed Forces (1) ---$50
Washington, D.C. (3) ---$50
Idaho (54) ---$50
South Dakota (25) ---$50
Canada (69) ---$35
Republic of Ireland (14) ---$30
Wyoming (10) ---$25
Rhode Island (11) ---$15
Sweden (7) ---$10
North Dakota (13) ---$10

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[goldstategop]

Bill Simon needs to ignore the RINOs and the liberal media and stick to his conservative message. Gray Davis will try to make him hide it and that would be a big mistake. He needs to show the grassroots and the larger electorate that he'll stand up for his beliefs even when he's about to be beaten to a bloody pulp. Its going to be a mean and nasty campaign the Rats will be waging from here on and Simon better be ready for it.

[Free the USA]

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[TLBSHOW]

ping

[GeronL]

"The personal attacks against me during the primary finally became so heavy that the state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: 'Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.' It's a rule I followed during that campaign and have ever since."

I wondered where that came from!

[DoughtyOne]

Remember the famous retort by Reagan that he had purchased that microphone and he wanted to be able to use it? In my opinion Reagan had to overcome leftist Republican leaders to press his candidacy forward in 1980. The Republican party leadership in California has the rep of being far left of it's constituancy. Buchanan was red hot in California in 1996. The young Republicans were favorable to him. Many others were too. But the state leadership turned up their nose and held out for Mr. Energy, Bob Dole. So did the national party. Look what happened.

If Simon can pull it off, and he manages to govern well, he's going to be a natural Presidential candidate in as little as six years.

[wayne_shrugged]

Rush Limbaugh: Simon the next Reagan? Radio host urges governor candidate to stick with conservatism

I like Rush but he's hardly a good prognosticator of elections. Remember how there was going to be a "Bush landslide?"

[goldstategop]

In all fairness to Rush, most of us on this forum thought Bush had it in the bag too. No one anticipated the 2000 election was down to wire. Hindsight is the mother of all mea culpas.

[wayne_shrugged]

In all fairness to Rush, most of us on this forum thought Bush had it in the bag too. No one anticipated the 2000 election was down to wire. Hindsight is the mother of all mea culpas.

I would cringe everytime he said something about a "landslide" before the election -- whatever happened to humbleness? Whatever happened to not being too cocky? There is afterall a difference between confidence and cockiness. If anything, we learned that after Election 2000!

[goldstategop]

I'll take a vow not to predict Bill Simon will win in 2002 til AFTER the polls are closed and the votes are actually counted. :)

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you John.
How wonderful it would be to see Davis saying goodbye ! He can go sit in the park with Condit and feed the pigeons. giggle

Thanks again for this on Simon.

[JohnHuang2]

He can go sit in the park with Condit and feed the pigeons.

ROFLOL!!

[JohnHuang2]

Maybe even the pigeons will shun them =^)

[okimhere]

I'll take a vow not to predict Bill Simon will win in 2002 til AFTER the polls are closed

HeeHeeHee - okay, me too. In the meantime, I'll work long and hard, looking forward to a celebration party. He came from Unknown to Preferred so, for now, I'll celebrate just that.

Thanks for the ping, John. Enjoyed the article immensely.

[Brian Allen]

..... whatever happened to Humbleness ....?

I dunno .....

..... changed his name to "Humility," maybe?

<];^)~<

[Brian Allen]

Thanks, John.

[anniegetyourgun]

It's an interesting analysis. I suspect Simon can win barring any cheating by the lib/dems. But I wouldn't discount the cheat factor in that state where the DEM party machinery is in charge of almost everything. DEMS also have a pattern of cheating and seeing that it is covered up until AFTER the election. After their guy is in, they really don't seem to care if their cheating is exposed because they consider those caught to be expendable in the process of meeting the overarching goal. It's that whole "ends justifies the means" thing.

I'm not sure what Simon can do about it other than get some folks on his campaign who can unearth the cheating early and break it BIG time as a major scandal. The difficulty there is that (other than Clinton/Gore), most of the DEMS have figured out how to break a mess of lesser rules, without ever doing the major blunder.

[Lorena]

Thanks for the ping, John. Utah Girl posted a great article last night from Newsweek about Bill Simon.
Bill Who?