[Gophack]

Riordan could never have beaten Davis. NEver. He has so much baggage and garbage ... if Davis had been running $10 million in hit ads against Riordan all summer, he would be doing worse than Simon! And the hardcore conservatives will never vote for someone like Riordan. Never. And Riordan couldn't have gotten enough cross-over votes to make up the difference.

You're forgetting what a buffoon Riordan was, how is constantly misspoke and said stupid things and believed most of them. Even Davis isn't so stupid as to public say that we need to be handing out contraceptives to 13 year olds!

Simon was and IS our best chance to take out Gray Davis. He's smart and friendly and most of all, he's not a career politician. He doesn't need this job (and I don't know why he wants it!) but he'll do a damn good job as Governor. He's the only one who can clean up the mess Davis created without raising taxes.

Remember, Riordan was a tax and spend Republican. He opposed Prop. 13 and property owners would have been screwed with him. Davis WILL raise taxes and we'll be in big trouble if he's re-elected. But I repeat, Riordan COULD NOT have beat him, and would not be doing any better than Bill Simon today.

Go Simon!!!!!!

[A CA Guy]

Davis also did not defend the will of the people proposition 187. He let it die in court without a defense.
First time a Gov. ever did that to my knowledge. His job was to defend 187 by law I think.