{"id":896,"date":"2002-08-20T11:54:48","date_gmt":"2002-08-20T18:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/08\/wishful-thinking\/"},"modified":"2002-08-20T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2002-08-20T18:54:48","slug":"wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/20\/wishful-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishful thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tBill Simon speechwriter Jonathan Wilcox<\/a> urges Californians not to give up on Bill Simon yet:<\/p>\n

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Not for the first time, the liberal media has California all wrong. And for the umpteenth time, California Republicans seem prepared to believe it.<\/p>\n

In reality, the California governor’s race remains Bill Simon’s to lose, and absent major mistakes, he will win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, Wilcox offers no concrete evidence that his boss still has a chance: no poll numbers, no voter remarks, nothing. He simply says it’s early, and the people don’t like Gray. It’s not that early, with the election 10 weeks away, and Simon still doesn’t have the money to answer Gray’s attacks and shift the spotlight back on him. Given the choice between the same venal crook we’ve had for the last 4 years or a bumbling idiot with a directionless campaign, voters will go for the crook simply out of familiarity.<\/p>\n

Republicans may as well vote Green, since the growth in that party’s strength is the only thing that stands to weaken the Democratic Party in California.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Simon speechwriter Jonathan Wilcox urges Californians not to give up on Bill Simon yet: Not for the first time, the liberal media has California all wrong. And for the umpteenth time, California Republicans seem prepared to believe it. In reality, the California governor’s race remains Bill Simon’s to lose, and absent major mistakes, he … Continue reading “Wishful thinking”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-es","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}