If he wins, he has to deal with a great variety of very serious problems that will be left to him by the Davis "administration" or, as I like to call it, "the unamusing California clown show". Problems like the huge state budget deficit, the massive, all-consuming wave of illegal immigrants whose dependence on and demand for state services is causing said deficit, etc.
He will be shackled in his efforts to actually do anything about these problems by the fact that the population of California is just to the left of Mao and has all the courage and moral clarity of Vidkun Quisling. Any attempt to address the real and serious problem of immigration in this "state" will be met with howls of "racism" and "hate" that Simon, being a Republican, will buckle to and grovel.
In all this buckling and grovelling nothing will get done, and when California finally collapses it will be Simon's "fault" because "he's the governor."
Let Davis win. Let California fall to those who want something for nothing and those who want to give it to them. Let it become the cesspit it's straining for, a muddy example for the whole world about the dangers of overregulation and cowardly, path-of-least-resistance politicians. Then let it fall into the ocean.
"Bill Simon should just give up. He's a lousy candidate. He should admit it, bow out of the race, then endorse a good Republican -- Secretary of State Bill Jones -- who has a shot at beating the otherwise-vulnerable Gray Davis."