\t\t\t\tThe California governor debate in LA today was depressing. Anyone who reads this blog knows that I don’t like Gray Davis, for a vast array of reasons I don’t need to recount here since they’re all the commonplace ones, except that I have an extra-special dislike for the dude because of his uniquely troubled relationship with his deceased father and his childless status. So it won’t take a whole lot to make me vote for Simon, and I tuned in to the debate today hoping I’d find it.<\/p>\n
But I didn’t. Simon stuck to his script, displayed little or no grasp of the issues, had no specifics, and wasted too much of his time attacking Davis when he should have been outlining the vision and new ideas he kept talking about, and did it all with the same goofy, robotic smile on his face. Davis was composed, direct, confident, and showed a grasp of the issues and the stubborness that a governor needs in California to keep from being run over by John Burton and the other radical lefties in the legislature.<\/p>\n
Davis made a real blunder by limiting the debates to this one hour session at noon; the more Californians get to see Bill Simon, the more they’ll be able to hold their noses and vote for Davis.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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