New Hampshire Senate hopeful Bob Smith lashes out at Scott Brown and the Republican establishment

  It seems all but certain at this point that Scott Brown will be entering the Republican primary in the hopes of winning the nomination and facing off against Jeanne Shaheen in the general election in November.

  As I have written in the past, there are many New Hampshire voters who see Scott Brown as a carpetbagger who cannot be trusted to vote the right way most of the time. It is clear to me that he is the establishment’s choice and because of this he will receive the money and the support from Washington and will be the nominee.

  Now that it appears as if Scott Brown is in, his three primary opponents began to speak out against him, the most vocal being Bob Smith. If the name Bob Smith rings a bell it is because he is the former New Hampshire Senator who lost in the Republican primary to John Sununu in 2002. Since that time he has been living in Florida where he has unsuccessfully tried twice to run for the Senate.

  Now he is back and to be honest I consider this move to be politically motivated and I see no difference between Bob Smith returning to New Hampshire to run for office and Scott Brown moving to New Hampshire to do the same.

  But he wasted no time in lashing out against Scott Brown and the Republican establishment, here is part of what he had to say:

He said he, Rubens an Testerman “are being ignored by the establishment.

“This is really something. To have a Massachusetts liberal being promoted, actually being pushed, by the powers in Washington and the establishment here in New Hampshire to run against three people who have been on the ground here for decades is really pretty bizarre.

“I say, ‘No way.’ I don’t think it’s going to sell. I’m going to make the case. When we desert our principles as a party we lose,” said Smith.

 I just think it’s bizarre that they would insult not only the candidates but also the voters,” said Smith.

  I agree with 99% of that statement but I have to take issue with his assertion that he has been on the ground here in New Hampshire for decades. Yes, he once was but he has not been involved in New Hampshire politics for a decade. That being said, he then lowered the boom on Scott Brown:

Brown “is closer to Jeanne Shaheen than he is to me,” said Smith. “He’s anti-gun. He’s anti-life. He voted for ‘Romneycare’ in the Massachusetts legislature and when it was convenient to vote against it, he voted against Obamacare in the U.S. Senate.”

Smith also charged that Brown “voted with Obama 70 percent of the time. He ought to be in a Democratic primary.”

  It is clear that Bob Smith, Jim Rubens, and Karen Testerman are prepared to attack Scott Brown where he is most vulnerable with the voters and while the outcome of this race is a foregone conclusion at least it has injected a little excitement into what was otherwise a very lifeless primary season.