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Common Name, Uncommon Challenger: In PA, Tom Smith could be this cycle’s most unexpected GOP winner.
National Review ^ | 10/24/2012 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 10/24/2012 6:49:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 10/24/2012 6:49:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I seriously seriously seriously love the idea of a coal company millionaire going to the Senate! What with Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, TOOMEY, Rand Paul....others....(DeMint obviously being the chairman)...we will be getting some great firepower in the Senate! And PA will have two of the very very best.

Almost forgot Johnson from WI...another great businessman and a very polished politician (in the best sense of the word).


2 posted on 10/24/2012 6:51:51 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: smoothsailing

I’m faithfully praying for Tom Smith!


3 posted on 10/24/2012 6:52:14 AM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: SeekAndFind

I cannot figure out how Bob Casey the elder is called popular, except that he is dead. He gave us the largest tax increase in history, after lying about the deficit to get himself re-elected.


4 posted on 10/24/2012 6:52:43 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: SeekAndFind
Here is the pic I took of Tom Smith at the Ryan rally near Pittsburgh last Saturday.



He came across as the most unassuming, down-to-earth, friendly politician you will ever meet.
5 posted on 10/24/2012 6:56:33 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Casey, the son of a popular pro-life former Democratic governor...

Unfortunately, that's why he'll probably win. I was talking to a friend of mine who lives in Pennsylvania. She mentioned that she'll be voting for "Governor Casey" for senator.

She's confusing the do-nothing son with his late father, who was quite popular.

Sigh...

6 posted on 10/24/2012 6:56:55 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: SeekAndFind

Romney will win PA and Tom Smith will ride on his coattails into the Senate.

You heard it here first.


7 posted on 10/24/2012 6:58:54 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved FrieGrnd Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
In his ads, Smith projects a pleasant, straightforward demeanor . . .

Our SW PA TEA Party group backed Tom Smith and there's a good reason he projects such a demeanor: because he is a pleasant and straightforward man.

Anybody save a certified moonbat who meets him, likes him because WYSIWYG.

I don't agree with Fat Ed Rendell on much of anything, but I agree with him about Casey Junior's ads: they are pathetic and one dimensional.

I'm still betting that Tom Smith is more likely to drag Mitt Romney over the finish line in Pennsylvania than the reverse.

8 posted on 10/24/2012 7:05:06 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

RWI, I wish FR had a “like” button. Great photo and heartfelt reporting.

I’m going to differ with the thought that its going to be Romney’s “coattails” that will pull Smith and Rothfrus along...I think Smith has done the heavy lifting here in PA tirelessly criss crossing the state with a true conservative message. And like so many Pennsylvania a of his generation...(and a certain former President) “he didnt leave the Democratic party...it left him.”

I think Smith has helped Romney here in PA.


9 posted on 10/24/2012 7:07:43 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bob Casey Jr. is a son of a politician, run for office till he won, personality of a tree stump, Obama rubber stamp, who makes the zombies in The Walking Dead look alive and energetic.

He is invisible, ineffective,and insipid.

Other than that, he is a great guy.


10 posted on 10/24/2012 7:09:16 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: SeekAndFind
I was pretty fond of the last "Mr. Smith" that Western PA sent to Washington ;-)


11 posted on 10/24/2012 7:11:40 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: ConservativeDude

Especially now that we know there has been no global warming for 16 years.


12 posted on 10/24/2012 7:19:40 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: onyx; SeekAndFind
Pennsylvania’s electorate is one of the oldest, and Smith is running folksy ads pledging to protect Social Security and Medicare, featuring his mother.

This is a powerful ad and Pennsylvania's seniors will be wishing they all had sons like Tom Smith!

MOM and also here!

Also, the ads about the Casey/Obama war on coal are devastating!

Thanks for the ping, onyx! :)

13 posted on 10/24/2012 7:32:58 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: SeekAndFind

This was heartening to read, especially since our candidates in Missouri and Indiana seem so bent on self destruction...


14 posted on 10/24/2012 7:35:10 AM PDT by MSF BU (n)
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RE: since our candidates in Missouri and Indiana seem so bent on self destruction...

I’ll say this — Unless conservatives can think of a coherent and satisfactory answer to the abortion question ( both posed to Murdock and Akin ), they’ll ALWAYS be portrayed as extreme.

I can’t see any way out to this. Tom Smith is just lucky his opponent is pro-life. Otherwise, he’d be facing the same challenge on abortion as the other two.


15 posted on 10/24/2012 7:40:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Popcorn futures are popping in Pa.!! :-)


16 posted on 10/24/2012 8:49:03 AM PDT by SueRae (See it? Hell, I can TASTE November from my house!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Reagan never had a problem and the issues have not changed since then. These guys are either too stupid to be running to too lazy not to have prepped. Anybody can look how Reagan answered those questions in 1976, 1980 or 1984...or they could read Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation. Of course, a prepared conservative already would have done that.


17 posted on 10/24/2012 2:08:39 PM PDT by MSF BU (n)
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To: randita

Ping!


18 posted on 10/24/2012 2:18:35 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (If Obama is an empty chair, then Biden is the whoopee cushion.)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; South Hawthorne; brityank; ...

PA Ping!

If you want on/off the PA Ping List, please freepmail me.

If you see posts of interest to Pennsylvanians, please ping me.

Thanks!


19 posted on 10/24/2012 3:10:46 PM PDT by randita
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Smith already got “tripped up” on a question about “rape” after the Todd Akin story broke. Not a big deal unless you’re going to be nitpicky, but that’s also true for Akin’s or Mourdock’s gaffes.

http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-smith-rape-gaffe-out-of-wedlock-republican-senate-todd-akin-legitimate-2012-8

Mark Scolforo, Associated Press: How would you tell a daughter or a granddaughter who, God forbid, would be the victim of a rape, to keep the child against her own will? Do you have a way to explain that?

Smith: I lived something similar to that with my own family. She chose life, and I commend her for that. She knew my views. But, fortunately for me, I didn’t have to.. she chose they way I thought. No don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t rape.

Scolforo: Similar how?

Smith: Uh, having a baby out of wedlock.

Scolforo: That’s similar to rape?

Smith: No, no, no, but… put yourself in a father’s situation, yes. It is similar. But, back to the original, I’m pro-life, period.


20 posted on 10/24/2012 3:24:47 PM PDT by JediJones (ROMNEY/RYAN: TURNAROUND ARTISTS ***** OBAMA/BIDEN: BULL $HIT ARTISTS)
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