Simon Fights Back (FINALLY)

News Release ^ | august 19, 2002 | Simon's campaign

[Saundra Duffy]

Finally - some real tough talk! 'Bout time! For victory & freedom!!!

[HOYA97]

Unless he gets some much needed cash and the ability to get this message in front of the voters, this press release will only be seen by those who are already on his side. He needs to do some radio and TV ads to combat the Davis juggernaut!!!

[InvisibleChurch]

i wonder if he's doing 'rope-a-dope', letting davis blow his cash and wad before Labor Day and then attacking when the voters start to pay attention to the candidates

[NEWwoman]

bump

[TheSpottedOwl]

Maybe, but Davis has buckets of cash. I'm hoping people will be so sick of Gray Davis' trashy ads they'll vote for Simon because of his integrity.

[HOYA97]

I wish that were the case.

He is waiting only because he lacks the funds to start the attack today. Simon has promised President Bush that he will start using more of his own money to fund the campaign to start TV and radio ads. In addition, as this article states, the President will help raise some 3 million for the campaign. Davis is a very weak candidate and the only thing keeping him afloat is his large warchest and an opponent with his hands ties behind his back!

[Saundra Duffy]

Help is on the way. Bush is coming. Yahoo! Also, Simon is hitting the talk shows and he's going to pump some of his own money into the pot. "Gay" Davis has been taking pot shots at Simon for months with not much response. Hopefully it's not too late to turn this thing around. For what it's worth, I had a pro-Simon/anti-Davis letter to the editor printed in the Sacramento Bee recently. For victory & freedom!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

I hope your hopes become a reality!

[Saundra Duffy]

I'm hoping people will be so sick of Gray Davis' trashy ads they'll vote for Simon because of his integrity.

Me, too. Me, too. Davis has a lot of nerve, huh? (Davis is a WHORE.)

[Sabertooth]

"It's one thing when the governor's political favors waste taxpayers' money and plunge our state deeper into debt and deficits," Simon said. "But just like the Dioxin he allowed to be dumped into the San Francisco Bay, Gray Davis' favors for Metabolife just might be putting people's health and lives at risk."

Yeah, Baby! Negative campaigning, two weeks early!

[Vladiator]

I knew he could do it.

Just as long as it doesn't turn out that he was involved in the Metabolife thing, he could get some traction on this.

[amused]

Alright!

Though this is only a press release that I doubt the Times will pick up, at least it's a start. With Bush in town and talk of him opening his own coffers, Simon is licked yet!

[Euro-American Scum]

Help is on the way. Bush is coming.

Too little. Too late. GWB has predicated his campaign hopes on not needing California to win re-election. It worked in 2000, and there's no reason it won't work in 2004.

Besides which, we're discounting the inevitable 11th hour revelation from the Davis campaign that Simon is really a Nazi camp guard, or some such last-second smear campaign. This news should break about two days before election day.

The RATS are predictable, but they are effective.

[Lancey Howard]

i wonder if he's doing 'rope-a-dope', letting davis blow his cash and wad before Labor Day and then attacking when the voters start to pay attention to the candidates

I think so.
This can be a very good strategy. A few years ago, Alphonse D'Amato spent tons early in his campaign and ran very, very good radio ads. They were targeted toward women - - all the good things he did for breast cancer victims, etc. Smooth, sentimental fluff that women usually eat up. Everything was positive, with testimonials from women all over the great state of New York thanking Senator D'Amato for all that he did. I mean, I thought these ads alone would wrap it up for him. But Chuckie came to the party late with a big, smearing ad campaign and ended up winning the Senate seat in NY, likely with a lot of vote fraud and union thug-help from Harold Ickes.

I hope Simon comes out with both barrels blazing in the last three or four weeks of the campaign. In the meantime, he should just throw stuff out there to keep the incumbent Davis on the defensive. And he should be careful not to take any bait - - ignore Davis' attacks and respond only with fresh attacks of his own on Davis, like these in the article.

GO SIMON!

[lager]

If only he will do this ten times a day until the election, he just might expose Davis. Thanks for the post.

[Poohbah]

Actually, it's a tad early--but the issue was handed to Simon on a platter, so it's a good idea to go fangs-out.

Most folks are still in summer-time mode, and won't pay attention to politics until Labor Day at the earliest.

[bluefish]

I just lost my enthusiasm for Simon. I don't want the government mucking around with dietary supplements, lest they be outlawed or prescription only, like many other countries. Sounds like he isn't a health freedom advocate, if this lame issue is the one he chose to start fighting back with. Government warnings eventually lead to government bans and Simon appears to be presuming ephedra (metabolife) is dangerous, which statistically it is not. The big pharmaceutical companies are doing their damndest, in conjunction with the FDA, to eliminate the most effective weight loss product available (ephedrine) because they haven't yet come up with something that works as well (or as safely - remember FDA approved Phen Fen?).

Sorry for the rant, I know this isn't the real issue here. But Simon's willingness to use this as a basis for an attack causes me to wonder what his feelings are on one of my most important issues: Health Freedom. Can any Simon supports alleviate my concern?

[gunshy]

So much crime. So little time.

[AM2000]

I just lost my enthusiasm for Simon.

Go back to DU, liberal commie disruptor!!!!!!!

hey, someone was gonna say it anyway :-P

[gubamyster]

Though this is only a press release that I doubt the Times will pick up

Believe it or not, the LA Times had this story, big time, (albeit on Saturday) on page A1. The article continued on to full page A20.