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Former U.S. Senator Crosses Party Lines To Endorse Kerry For President
The Concord Monitor ^ | October 30, 2004 | Anne Marie Timmons

Posted on 10/30/2004 12:37:30 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Bob Smith of New Hampshire calls the Bush Presidency a failure.


TOPICS: Announcements; Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: bobsmith; hasbeen; kerryrepublicans; revenge; rino; vindictiveness
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To: KoRn
No suprise there, he was a whack-job when he was in office. It may hurt a bit in NH I think.

Right on all accounts -- and the former "senator" obviously timed this to have maximum impact. Let's just hope Osama's tape trumped Smith's "endorsement."

41 posted on 10/30/2004 1:18:56 PM PDT by Exigence
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To: ingo

Unfortunately for most republicans these days if you don't kiss butt and bow to partyline you're considered a "nut" or a "traitor". I find it ironic it's these same people that chant the partyline of conservatism yet keep electing "big government and big spending." We know who the real "nuts" are.


42 posted on 10/30/2004 1:18:58 PM PDT by politicalwit (They want your vote... but not your voice.)
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To: Darkwolf377

Wasn't he a conservative? Is he the guy who became an Independent for awhile? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else.


43 posted on 10/30/2004 1:20:27 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: Theodore R.

I don't know,


44 posted on 10/30/2004 1:22:12 PM PDT by newsgatherer
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To: pissant

But wasn't he the conservative candidate over Sununu? If so this is bad for conservatives. What a jerk.


46 posted on 10/30/2004 1:22:37 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

You're thinking of the right guy. He's just a big doofus. New England Republicans are a tricky bunch, they're not really Republicans, they're mavericks who are too self-centered to join the gang and be Dems.


47 posted on 10/30/2004 1:22:49 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: politicalwit

Try as you might, you can't defend Bob Smith.

Endorsing Kerry is treasonous to everything the Senator stood for all those years.

Perhaps he needs to take another walk on down to Arlington...


48 posted on 10/30/2004 1:22:58 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Socialism Kills...)
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To: KoRn

I think the only person this going to hurt is Smith.


49 posted on 10/30/2004 1:24:03 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: ingo

Okay, he is the guy I was thinking he was. Hmmm. He sure doesn't help the image of conservatives with this little move. How the heck can he feel good about endorsing Kerry? If he doesn't like Bush then just SHUT UP! Or he could at least go support the Constitution Party candidate. But Kerry? That's an ego over principle endorsement.


50 posted on 10/30/2004 1:25:22 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: politicalwit

You make a very good point, but I don't see any other so-called conservatives, or even marginal Republicans endorsing Kerry.


51 posted on 10/30/2004 1:27:15 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: politicalwit

And supporting Kerry is going to bring more conservatism into the govt?? Ronald Reagan had large deficits during most of his tenure. Clinton did not (thanks to Newt). Does that make Clinton a Conservative and Reagan a liberal? Pull your head out. On social issues (embryonic stemm cells, abortion, poofer marriage, religious exclusion from public life, gun rights, school accountability) Bush is as conservative as RWR.

On fiscal matters, Bush knew, as did you, that a prescription drug benefit to seniors was inevitable, and therefore coerced a program through that is head and antlers better than what the Demwits were shooting for. His willingness to reform Social Security also shows he has a real pair of rocks.

Also, picking up the SDI ball that Reagan created and fighting the terror masters with courage and conviction puts him into pretty good conservative company. Unless your idea of conservatism is like Pat Buchanan's.


52 posted on 10/30/2004 1:28:25 PM PDT by pissant
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To: politicalwit
The last couple years Bob was in the senate, he was on the bandwagon with a lot of wacky environmental groups.
53 posted on 10/30/2004 1:30:18 PM PDT by Conservative Infidel
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To: EternalVigilance
Nothing like snorting hyperbole.

Bob Smith was a good, dedicated Senator. He had a solid Conservative voting record. His statement, endorsing Kerry--which gave his reasons--does not appear in this thread, and I do not have it handy to quote. But that is not the point, anyway.

I do not agree with Bob Smith in endorsing Kerry. I do agree with him in not supporting Bush. I also agree with Mel Gibson's "lemons" remark of the other day.

The choice between the major candidates is pathetic. Bob Smith has elected what he, rightly or wrongly, considers the lesser evil. I cannot vote for the lesser of two evils. But I will stand up for Bob, as a man of principle. The suggestion that he acted out of bitterness, alone, is ridiculous.

I will not vote for either Bush or Kerry. Some of the loud keyboards here can make the most of that, but I seriously doubt if you really want to debate the point. In my opinion, neither Bush nor Kerry would have been morally fit to groom George Washington's horse. They have taken our politics to a new all time low.

54 posted on 10/30/2004 1:33:49 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
He claimed to be conservative but he was in bed with a lot of wacky environmental groups here in NH.
55 posted on 10/30/2004 1:34:19 PM PDT by Conservative Infidel
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To: EternalVigilance

I can't condone of Smith's endorsement of Kerry, but then again I wouldn't condone his endorsement of Bush. Personally, I find it hard to believe any conservative would endorse either of the candidates. Both are big government.


56 posted on 10/30/2004 1:34:47 PM PDT by politicalwit (They want your vote... but not your voice.)
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To: doug from upland

Kinda like John Anderson was the "true conservative" in 1980


57 posted on 10/30/2004 1:35:04 PM PDT by pissant
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
You make a very good point, but I don't see any other so-called conservatives, or even marginal Republicans endorsing Kerry.

This one came over my transom this morning: http://www.courier-journal.com/cjextra/editorials/2004/10/20/oped-marlow1020-8060.html The dementia crowd is starting to come out of the woodwork.

58 posted on 10/30/2004 1:38:32 PM PDT by Conservative Infidel
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To: Conservative Infidel

"The dementia crowd is starting to come out of the woodwork."

Spoken like a true party hack. Disagree with partyline and be labeled. Perhaps it's yourself that suffers dementia.


59 posted on 10/30/2004 1:43:22 PM PDT by politicalwit (They want your vote... but not your voice.)
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To: politicalwit
The John Birch Society ---->
60 posted on 10/30/2004 1:46:08 PM PDT by TheBigB (I have a keyboard and an attitude. Don't piss me off.)
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