Posted on 07/14/2002 10:30:52 AM PDT by rightwing2
As I said before, Smith's defection was in furtherance of an ill-fated presidential quest, which crashed and burned within a month of his quixotic declaration. He gave a wink-and-a-nod after John Chafee died, since he coveted the chairmanship of a committee Chafee headed. Smith's human, just like the rest of us, and threw principle to the wind when it stood to benefit him.
Frankly, ANWAR doesn't do anything for me. It is not even on most conservative's radar screen whereas Sununu's consistent support for increased illegal immigration and support of Palestinian and other Islamicist terrorist groups IS.
You slur Sunnunu as a terrorist supporter with no, or anecdotal, evidence, where I can point to ANWR as a further lessening of US support on foreign oil, with the evidence that Smith is against exploration there.
Smith's going down, one way or another.
And if you think that Sununu isn't a Pali/Arab-loving opportunist riding on Daddy's and the Bush Family coattails, then you are deluding yourself.
There is NO statewide support for Jean Shaheen the Taxing Machine...just in the gay parts of Portsmouth, Manchester, Salem and Nashua.
Folks here know SHE is one of the root causes of the Claremont debacle, and all Smith needs to do is ask folks in the Donor towns to look at how high their property taxes are...no love for her there!
Sununu Jr. and mammaries on a bull have a lot in common...except that the mammaries aren't TRAITORS taking $$$ from Terrorist support groups!
Care to refute THAT part of Sununu's portflio?
This is easily verified by a glance at Sununu's campaign finance records. Sununu has gotten cash from the worst of the worst on the Cynthia McKinney terrorist sympathizer list. I happened upon it myself by accident while looking to see who one of McKinney's most notorious donors, a guy who had publicly proclaimed his support for HAMAS at an islamic rally in Washington a few years ago, had also supported. It was a list of the left's top names including Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton plus several dem congressmen including McKinney. Then in the middle of it all was a Republican sticking out like a sore thumb. It was Sununu.
I found them by accident and discovered he shares some names with the Cynthia McKinney terrorist sympathizer list of donors, including one that is arguably the single most notorious name on McKinney's list. Conservatives rightly went after Cynthia when the flap about her islamic radical donors broke and consistency dictates that we should do the same for others who take money from these same people. Fortunately most of them give almost exclusively to Democrats including the ones Sununu took from...but there are GOP exceptions who took money from the same terrorist supporters and Sununu is one of them. I was leaning in favor of advocating Smith's reelection before I foudn out about Sununu's terrorist donor baggage, but ever since I have firmly sided with Smith.
I'll readily concede that Shaheen makes a tougher challenger in the general to Smith, but think about it. Your claims that Smith can't beat her are becoming a self fulfilling prophesy. Right now the absolute worst thing you could ever do to Smith's chances in November is run him through a bloody primary battle. From what I've heard so far, polls show Smith only slightly behind or even with Shaheen in a head to head matchup. One must ask if this would necessarily be the case if Smith weren't being hammered from his own party by the Sununu campaign's challenge, itself partially paid for by known terrorist sympathizers. I'm willing to bet Smith would pull ahead if his party were united behind him. But it is not, on the grounds that the laziness of some lends their support to a candidate with a percieved easier ride in November. Hence a self fulfilling prophesy is created.
Alamoudi is the guy who stated at a protest rally "I have been labeled by the media in New York as being a supporter of Hamas. Any supporters of Hamas here? [Cheers from protesters] Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of Hamas ... I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah."
Here's what I discovered by accident while looking to see if Hillary & co. had recieved donations from Almoudi like McKinney (Hillary did along with the left of the left Democrats like Kennedy). Sununu recieved at least two checks from Alamoudi:
$500 on 9/21/1999
$250 on 5/9/2000
This discovery raised my curiosity so I made another comparison between Sununu's donors and the notorious Cynthia McKinney list. A brief glance over the two found another Democrat mohammedan activist linking the two, Abdulwahab Alkebsi. Alkebsi cut a $700 donation check to McKinney on September 11, 2001. A brief internet search for his name revealed an article in which he was quoted complaining about post 9/11 government raids on the assets of islamic groups with terrorist ties. Alkebsi's name appears next to a donation to Sununu's current campaign
$1000 on 3/7/2002
I know some people think that it is unfair to visit the sins of Sununu the Elder upon Sununu the Younger but I am not soon going to forgive the father's foisting of David Souter onto Bush the Elder for appointment to the SCOTUS. Souter makes the fortunately departed William Brennan look moderate by comparison. He even tried to put Gore in the White House by his attempts to fashion a majority which failed.
I also note for the cognoscenti in New Hampshire GOP circles that the despicable malcolm and Susan MacLane of Concord accompanied Souter to his Judiciary Committee hearings which is about all anyone needs to know about Souter, about his Senate sponsor Rudman who is supporting the younger Sununu and is about as conservative as Abbie Hoffman, and about the Sununus.
Bob Smith is a great senator and a very decent guy who is being pilloried for not being "flexible" on matters of principle (sort of like Styles Bridges, Norris Cotton, Gordon Humphrey, the late and great Meldrim Thompson, and the best of the New Hampshire GOP) and for not being a poster boy for hair spray. He is substantive. His opponents are hopelesly shallow and New Hampshire at least used to know the difference better than most states. If Bill or Nackey Loeb were alive, Sununu the younger would be broiled alive by them and by all of their editorial employees.
Has Gordon Humphrey been nominated again for governor by the GOP? Who are the Demonrats running? Any predictions on the outcome?
I'm not sure about Shaheen, but it's definately worth a check to see if she's got terrorist donors. We did a search down here in Texas for the Democrat senate nominee in our open seat, Ron Kirk. It turned up all sorts of arab activists. One of them, who gave to Kirk's campaigns when he was mayor of Dallas, was arrested back in February for shipping computer parts to suspected terrorist cells in Syria etc. Now he's facing a 60 year jail sentence. Kirk needs to be hit hard over his terrorist donors, so i'm spreading the word wherever I can.
Benson is a very formidable challenger who has focused on the issues and not his opponents. Neither Democrat (Fernald or Hollingworth) will beat Benson. Both support an income tax. Fernald probably has a slight advantage for November simply because Hollingworth has marshmallows for brains and it shows on TV.
Janet is having a little bit of trouble; hope she loses the primary, but I doubt it.
I believe Sununu was in third behind Shaheen and Smith - not exactly the kind of candidate i'd be looking for to run in an artificially created open seat against a DNC-backed Democrat. Then again, I suppose Sununu could call up one of his HAMAS supporting donors and get a bunch of mohammedan cash if he really wanted it.
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