Simon ran a horrible campaign. He should have run against Davis's record instead of focusing so hard on Davis's corrupt fundraising tactics. Releasing that photo, which turned out to be nothing, was stupid, stupid, stupid.
Obviously, Parsky needs to go too. The main job of the party chairman is to get out the vote. He failed at this and should be replaced.
I cannot believe they are suggesting that Simon run against Boxer. Forget it...Simon should try for a House seat before he tries another statewide candidacy. His inexperience at running a campaign was part of his problem.
It really is sad though. With only 48% of Republicans voting, he still got 42% of the overall vote. The California GOP should be ashamed. They could have won this, despite Simon's mistakes.
Parsky didn't like Simon, because of a business deal with Simon's dad that went sour.
Davis won SanFrancisco with 66%. There are not that many gays in SanFrancisco. There are considerably more immigrants than gays.
If the immigrants voted republican, and the gays voted democrat, it would have been a landslide for Simon.