[GraniteStateConservative]

Bush, 2002. Bob Smith didn't get all that.

[BigSkyFreeper]

LOL. I knew sooner or later you'd come by and post in the thread, still stinging about Bob Smith.

[BigSkyFreeper]

In 2002, Bush came to Montana to campaign for Mike Taylor for Senate (against incumbent Max Baucus (D)), who was just as Conservative if not more Conservative than Toomey ever was. Baucus couldn't handle the popularity Taylor was garnering, his seat was threatened, and so he decided to get down and dirty and label Taylor a homosexual. Taylor decided to drop out because Baucus had a huge war chest that Taylor just couldn't match.

There should have been no excuse that Toomey should have won PA and upset Specter. Toomey ran a statewide campaign that crisscrossed the state several times over and was breathing down the neck of Specter while the pundits predicted an upset, and 1/3 of the state's registered Republicans didn't even bother to show up at the polls. Mike Taylor got even more votes even after he had dropped out of his campaign because Baucus hit him with a low blow. Even many Democrats were mad at Baucus. Baucus is just as liberal as Daschle, and many hardlined Democrats voted for Taylor.