I disagree with your opinions on the 1998 and 2000 elections. Linda Smith lost mainly because Washington is a liberal state. Murray won 58 to 42 almost exactly how Prop 694 (Ban Partial Birth Abortion) lost - 57 to 43 and how Prop 692 (Allow medical marijuana) passed - 59 to 41. Clinton also beat Dole 53 to 38 just a few years prior. That's quite a steep hill for a Bible-Believing Pentecostal like Smith to climb. Unfortunately Murray won.
If you look at the Mason Dixon Poll running up to the election (http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/1998/states/WA/polls/WA98S.html) Smith gains votes and Murray loses support. Smith also refused to vote for Gingrich as speaker in 1997 - so I don't suppose he would be favorable to her in 1998. Republicans didn't pull support of Smith. The national committee maybe didn't give her as much money as she would have liked but they have to pick and choose their battles. There are already laws on the books about Campaign Finance and your previous hero John McCain was one of the biggest breakers of the law. Just enforce the laws. Limiting people's free speech by saying a group or a person supports candidate X means that the media and the incumbants can say all they want too. Your new hero - John "Special K" Kerry denounced special interests, but looking at his record shows otherwise. He was king of special interests in the senate. And just today more news about his interest in special interests: ------- WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., sent 28 letters in behalf of a San Diego defense contractor who pleaded guilty last week to illegally funneling campaign contributions to the Massachusetts senator and four other congressmen. Members of Congress often write letters supporting constituent businesses and favored projects. But as Democratic presidential front-runner, Kerry has promoted himself as one who has never been beholden to campaign contributors. >From 1996 through 1998, Kerry participated in a letter-writing campaign to free up federal funds for a missile system that defense contractor Parthasarathi "Bob" Majumder was trying to build for U.S. warplanes. Kerry's letters were sent to fellow members of Congress -- and to the Pentagon -- while Majumder and his employees at Science and Applied Technology, Inc. were donating money to the senator, court records show. During the three-year period, Kerry received about $25,000 from Majumder and his employees, according to Dwight L. Morris and Associates, which tracks campaign donations. Documents say the contractor told his employees they needed to make political contributions for him to gain influence with members of Congress. He then reimbursed them with proceeds from government contracts. Federal prosecutors initially determined that $13,000 of the donations were illegally reimbursed, but they now say that nearly all of the money was tainted. They said there was no evidence Kerry would have known that. Asked what he did to repay the money, Kerry's campaign said Wednesday he had donated $13,000 to charity two days before the guilty plea. Kerry's campaign said Kerry's actions had nothing to do with the campaign contributions. One of the subcontractors working on the guided missile project, Militech, was based in Northampton, Mass. ------------- I also disagree with you 100% about the South Carolina primary . But SC didn't really matter who won as McCain only had a shot at winning Republican primaries that allowed Democrats and other third party candidates to win too. I remember reading lots of news stories about the mischief Democrats were trying to cause as they hated Bush back then too. McCain got nasty in SC as so did Bush supporters. Unfortunately negative campaigning still works and I feel will probably always work. -E _______ List host: http://eBible.org/mpj/ List info: http://eBible.org/rangernet/faq.htm To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://eBible.org/subscribe.htm
