Bob did the dick stepping act, ego over brains, jumped parties and got beat, Sununnu beat Queen Jean, Spending Machine, last time around,
You're making the same arguement that Sununu ridiculed last time. Bob Smith was deemed "unelectable" in 2002 and he retorted that the papers declared Dick Swett a likely winner in 1996 and that he "beat liberal Dick Swett comfortably".
Sununu's responce was that 2002 was NOT 1996 and that Smith had stepped in it big time since then and was now consistantly losing in the polls.
Now it can be shown that 2008 is NOT 2002 and being a Bushbot in N.H. is no longer a positive like it was for Sununu in 2002. Just as he pointed out about Smith, Sununu is now consistantly trailing Shaheen in EVERY poll. He is much much weaker than 2002.
Sununu is the kind of guy who actually argued that giving a "path to citizenship" to illegal aliens (which Smith adamently opposed) should be considered a good policy proposal because "the President supports it". What kind of arguement is that? And then freepers have the gall to whine aobut Senators not listening to the voters and pushing for amnesty AFTER they elected a guy like Sununu.
Sununu stepped in it big time and is now a dead man walking in 2008. If he and his supporters had any honesty at all, they'd be calling for him to go because they used the EXACT same "poll" numbers to demand Smith's head on a platter. We will never win New Hampshire with a Senator who blindly decides things are a good idea simply because "the President supports it".
A principled, independant-minded conservative with no ties to Bush's boo-boos (Miers, amnesty, pre-surge Iraq strategy) who has an attractive resume and won office without running on his daddy's name could win this seat for the GOP.