Sec of State Jones should have been the nominee for CA Governor in 2002.
Jones wouldn’t have won, either (witness his disastrous run in 2004 against Sen. Boxer). As it was, he barely beat (and by a plurality) the flaky moonbat leftist Michela Alioto in 1998.
Simon shouldn’t have rested on his laurels after the primary victory. The fact that CA holds its primary a shocking 8 months before the general is ludicrous. The time from primary to general should be no longer than 2, 3 months tops. It’s difficult to be in perpetual campaign mode like that for so long (especially when it’s non-Presidential). Had the primary been held in August (2002), I think Simon could’ve pulled it off, and he’d have been a better Governor than the Austrian Socialist.