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"Rudy's support didn't get Bill Simon elected; the RINOs screwed him anyway."

Bill Simon's worst enemy was Bill Simon. Next came Richard Riordan. But the bullet that took down Simon's candidacy was the Hindelang affair. Everything else could've been overcome. I worked hard to get that man elected. Early on, I personally warned the campaign about Hindelang during the primary, providing eighteen pages of old press reports and other documentation that certified that Hindelang was a ticking time bomb that Grey Davis' people would be sure to exploit. The campaign ignored it, and sure enough, it blew up in their face like a trick cigar, right on cue, with a bogus "fraud conviction" days before the election. It was overturned quickly but the damage was done.

After dominating the primary, Simon lost the old-fashioned way: idiocy and arrogance, with not a small amount of sour grapes, pouting and rank immaturity on the part of the reprehensible RINO Riordan. Simon also missed a major chance to consolidate his grip on the California GOP when he took a vacation after the primary rather than gathering all the players and telling them how it was going to be. Rookie mistake. The guy hadn't done so much as run for student body president up 'til that point, and it showed.

The truly sad thing is, he'd have been a better governor than Schwarzenegger has been, and the state would be about $40 billion less in debt.