I don't know why he did it. I'm furious with Voinovich for being so simultaneously mooshy and malicious.
Looks like political payback.
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"Well, not quite. The Club for Growth, a conservative group devoted to knocking off moderate Republicans they can't keep in line, ran an ad comparing Sens. Olympia Snowe of Maine and George Voinovich of Ohio to the French for their refusal to vote for the president's $726 billion tax cut. Snowe and Lincoln Chaffee of Rhode Island criticized Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum for gay bashing; Voinovich stiffed President Bush when he went to Ohio to push for his big tax cut and the president dissed Voinovich for advocating "little bitty tax relief." "
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You can read the rest here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/25/opinion/lynch/main551114.shtml
Gee, I thought I was the only one who ever used that word to describe a RINO. :)