Posted on 10/24/2012 6:49:16 AM PDT by 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).
I’m faithfully praying for Tom Smith!
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.
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...
Romney will win PA and Tom Smith will ride on his coattails into the Senate.
You heard it here first.
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.
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.
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.
Especially now that we know there has been no global warming for 16 years.
This is a powerful ad and Pennsylvania's seniors will be wishing they all had sons like Tom Smith!
Also, the ads about the Casey/Obama war on coal are devastating!
Thanks for the ping, onyx! :)
This was heartening to read, especially since our candidates in Missouri and Indiana seem so bent on self destruction...
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.
Popcorn futures are popping in Pa.!! :-)
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.
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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.
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 didnt have to.. she chose they way I thought. No dont get me wrong, it wasnt rape.
Scolforo: Similar how?
Smith: Uh, having a baby out of wedlock.
Scolforo: Thats similar to rape?
Smith: No, no, no, but put yourself in a fathers situation, yes. It is similar. But, back to the original, Im pro-life, period.
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