Posted on 08/27/2002 11:16:34 AM PDT by Red Jones
Message from Rudy Giuliani
An Urgent Message from Rudy Giuliani follows: In public service, there’s no substitute for strong leadership, the kind of leadership New Hampshire has in Senator Bob Smith. He’s experienced, effective, and always puts principle before politics.
Bob Smith worked with Presidnet Bush to cut taxes and improve our schools.
On the Armed Services committee, he has strengthened America’s national defense, and Bob Smith’s prescription drug plan is one of the best I’ve seen, making prescription drugs affordable with no premium increase.
For your healthcare, Bob Smith believes that no bureaucrat, no HMO, no one should ever get between you and your doctor.
I’ve had my share of tough political battles, and I’ve learned that it’s not the critics but the record that tells the truth.
That’s why I’ve always admired Bob Smith; He gets results.
I know a leader when I see one.
When I look at what he’s done and what he can do in the future, Bob Smith is a leader New Hampshire and America need in the United States Senate.
Sununu's personality promises no embarrassments unlike Smith who bolted the Republican Party to launch a failed presidential bid as an independent and then ran back quickly as he could to the fold when Senator John Chafee died and a committee chairmanship came open. We should all stand aware that at any moment Smith might break into a floor speech on creating federal regulations for the treatment of elephants or creating federal retirement homes for unwanted mokeys. (Yes, Smith has given speeches on both topics on the floor of the Senate.)
Sununu endorsements so far includes people like Vice President Dan Qualye, Senator Rick Santorum, Senator Ted Stevens, Senator Kit Bond, and Senator Richard Shelby.
Sununu is the better candidate; however, it is good to have a GOP primary between two pro-life, pro-gun, and low-tax conservatives.
GO SUNUNU GO! I would LOVE to see him take on Lieberman in a foreign policy debate!
That is wonderful! Wish we had that problem in California! :-)
Exactly. That and Sununu's McKinney-esque campaign finance reports with mounds of cash from the radical islamic crowd.
Sununu got money from some of the exact same people we condemned McKinney et al for. It's a disturbing sign of Sununu's politics in itself but it also makes the GOP into hypocrites when we condemn McKinney for taking cash from that crowd while ignoring it when one of our own does it.
Bob Smith has his shortcomings (though I don't mind at all that he's a loose cannon and in fact wish there were more like him in the senate to replace the noodle-spined likes of Trent Lott), but they pale in comparisson to Sununu's radical islamic cash problems and the hypocrites we make ourselves if we ignore them and support his candidacy.
Yeah. You'd have Lieberman putting on a whiny front that pretends to be pro-Israel while Sununu's standing across the aisle taking up the cause of "palestine." Sounds like a real winner to me.
That's the whole point. Rudy is trying to kiss up to conservatives in a relatively "harmless" way, because he has his eye on running for a national office. Also, there could very well be some bad blood between Rudy and Sununu. We don't know the power struggles behind the scenes.
A more crass and hypocritical political move is hard to imagine. Perhaps if Ted Kennedy had endorsed George Wallace?
This is one of the best examples of the damage done to a party by one-issue politics.
I answered this question for you the other day. That was Sununu's father who did the Souter thing.
I'm shocked ... PLEASED .. but shocked.
They don't come anymore conservative, son
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