We’ve previously reported that Bob Smith was considering a run for US Senate in either New Hampshire or Florida. He has made a final decision regarding the location, but not about whether he will actually run. The former Senator says, in this video (embedded below), that he wants to balance budgets, decrease the national debt, right to life, smaller government, lower taxes. In an email, he confirmed to me that he was indeed exploring a run in Florida. He cited some other issues which he believed were very important, like the re-establishing a gold standard and shutting down the Federal Reserve.
Bob Smith is a former Republican Senator from New Hampshire. He ran for President in 2000 and, for a few months, defected to the Constitution Party (then named the US Taxpayer’s Party), only to return to the Republican Party. In 2008 he briefly considered running for President as the nominee of the Constitution Party, but eventually declined to run. He had kind words for Constitution Party presidential candidate, Chuck Baldwin, later on.
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1 Trent Hill // Apr 13, 2009 at 2:08 am
In another email, Sen. Smith addressed ballot access issues after I asked if I could post details of our email on this site. He claimed he’d “seen that site” and that he was very concerned about ballot access issues, since he sees them as unfair. I know that Sen. Smith is very close with Constitution Party founder Howard Phillips.
2 paulie // Apr 13, 2009 at 8:48 am
Embedded video not coming through on this end
3 mdh // Apr 13, 2009 at 10:36 am
Is he considering running on the CP ticket or GOP? The article isn’t clear on that. Is he certain on it himself yet?
4 Trent Hill // Apr 13, 2009 at 11:37 am
GOP.
5 Trent Hill // Apr 13, 2009 at 11:39 am
Paulie, it must be a problem on your end. Coming through fine here.
6 paulie // Apr 13, 2009 at 11:43 am
Fine here now too. I hadn’t realized the computer reset while I was sleeping. As I looked at more sites and posts it became clear what happened.
7 PTK // Apr 13, 2009 at 4:16 pm
According to Politics1.com http://www.politics1.com/fl.htm, he is running as a Republican. But i predict that he will fail miserably and seek a minor party’s nomination and if that fails he will run as an independent. Basically the senatorial equivalence of Alan Keyes in the 2008 Presidential Election, even though I admire the guy.
8 Trent Hill // Apr 13, 2009 at 5:10 pm
PTK,
I sincerely doubt it. I’d bet he’ll run only as a Republican. Should he lose, I’d look for him to become a Presidential candidate for the CP in 2012.
9 PTK // Apr 13, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Well with what happened in 2000, it could be possible.
10 Peter Orvetti // Apr 14, 2009 at 6:36 am
In 2000, there were rumors that Smith had opted out of the USTP field because he perceived anti-Catholic bias in the party. I interviewed Howard Phillips around that time, and he said he was not aware of that concern, nor of any such bias.
11 Trent Hill // Apr 14, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Peter,
I’v heard the same rumor, but could not confirm or deny it.
12 Third Party Revolution // May 30, 2009 at 3:12 pm
According to this article, Bob Smith is a 9/12 candidate: http://fl.912candidates.org/
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