[JoeFromCA]

Thanks for the thoughts. I have my primary absentee ballot in hand, and as a staunch conservative I'm struggling with what to do. You've summed up the situation very well. Riordan appears unacceptable, but I don't know if Simon can beat Davis (unless you've lived in CA it's difficult to understand how Davis could win after what he's done, but just remember Barbara Boxer and Barbara Lee, and it helps non-residents to understand). Anyway, thanks for the thoughtful thoughts; I'm still thinking.

[BlackElk]

Simon would do an excellent and therefore conservative job of running California. IF, for whatever reason, he cannot beat Davis this year, take heart. Liberalism is its own cure. Davis did a terrific job holding down energy prices, for example, didn't he???? Even Californians will not need to be whacked over the head by a 2 X 4 too many times before reverting to common sense. A governor who says what you want to hear on abortion who costs you $1000 per month for your electric bill or a candidate who says what you don't want to hear on abortion over which he has no authority in any event until the SCOTUS is sufficiently purged but is a competent business man and manager who takes conservative positions on social issues including guns (his dad was involved with the Olin Foundation funded by Winchester Rifle Company sales) who can get the high cost of liberalism out of your electric bill and keep your taxes down? Sounds like a no brainer to me. And Simon WILL bring minority social conservatives into the party and help overcome the Wilson disaster.