Whoa...that campaign was besieged by the thousands of organizations with BDS that swamped his phone lines daily! I 'd rather see us get on board with this 'lone ranger' of conservatism who, like you, took on the Clinton Machine.! Later during his own campaign, that he didn't 'know you' from the thousands of orgs that saw him as the same pariah as Bush should not be held against him in that fracas! That he didn't win is more related to his successful impeachment of Clinton than not returning calls to FreeRepublic (not that I condone it, of course). I am glad he's our AG, completely 180 opposite of the NY and Conn AGs....not a corrupt bone in the guy.
I admit to over-generalizing just to make a point. However, I could not say that McCollum did not know about FR, because Congressman Bob Barr told us that the Judiciary Committee began to think that America was not interested in impeachment of Clinton for his high crimes until FR descended on Washington on Oct. 31, 1998 and held a highly successful demonstration on the Mall in the shadow of the Washington Monument.
In my opinion, he tried to avoid FR in a ploy to appear as a 'moderate' and not be associated with the 'hard right'; that is definitely just my opinion.
I hope he does not run for the Senate; he lacks the fervent aggression needed to re-establish Constitutional principles... my opinion. If only he were in the mold of Tom Delay!
FReegards, IR