Simmons Opens a Second Front.
Republican United States Senate hopeful Peter Schiff got some good news today. The winner of last Tuesday’s Hartford Courant/Fox CT debate has nerves jangling at the Rob Simmons campaign. There’s no other reason for the Simmons campaign to launch a peculiar attack on Schiff and step on its own news that former Congresswoman Nancy Johnson is supporting her former colleague’s bid for the Senate.
Schiff, who through this long campaign has polled in single digits in the race for the nomination, must be generating some buzz, buzz, buzz among activists. It’s easy for model of the moderate Republican establishment Simmons to pull a teabag out of his pocket; it’s harder for him to pocket the support of Tea Party enthusiasts. Simmons, after all, voted for plenty of deficit spending and expanded entitlements during his three term in Washington.
The Simmons campaign emailed Schiff’s interview with the CTMirror and highlighted the financial commentator’s thoughyts about storing precious metals offshore as a hedge against the government’s confiscation of gold. That must sound nutty to the Simmons campaign, but history tells us it happens. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt banned the private ownership of gold except for jewelry. The restriction wasn’t lifted until Gerald Ford became president more than 40 years later. You can hold on to your Rolexes, Republicans.
The McMahon campaign has not attacked Schiff and probably sees no reason to start.
Schiff’s father also comes in for highlighting by the Simmons campaign. Irwin Schiff, 78, is currently serving a long federal prison term for tax resistance. Schiff says in the interview as much as a son decently can about his father, pointing out that he was like Captain Ahab in his belief that the federal government had no authority to levy the income tax. I know little about Schiff’s relationship with his father, but I know children don’t pick their parents. Parents don’t pick their children (except for those special ones who are adopted). The relationships, in either or both directions, can be a burden. Schiff, who was raised by his mother, wins full marks for handling his relationship in as dignified a manner as possible. It can’t be easy to be Irwin Schiff’s son.
Rob Simmons probably was not delighted four years ago when his wife, Edith “Heidi” Simmons, donated $250 to anti-Iraq war poster boy Democrat Ned Lamont while her husband was struggling and failing to avoid becoming collateral damage of the war he vigorously backed. Our family members do as they choose, and we read about it later on OpenSecrets.org or the police blotter. It is among the glories and encumbrances of freedom.
For the Simmons campaign to pick today, as it showcases the endorsement of 12 term veteran turned Beltway lobbyist Johnson, who manifests warm memories among many Connecticut Republicans, to take a shot at Schiff over gold and his father is a mystery. The battle against rival Linda McMahon is going so well that Simmons can also take on Schiff, who’s been mostly on the sidelines? They must be detecting a shift to Schiff among undecided Republicans, which is cause for worry as Schiff is expected to start spending some campaign gold on the airwaves soon.
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“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Gandhi
I hope CT voters vote for Schiff, the real fiscal conservative. The other two are just RINOs that will spend their 6 years reaching so far across the aisle they might as well be democrats.
Man it is about time. I went to Schiff’s headquarters when it had it’s first open house. I was impressed by the man and his staff. I hope the electorate takes this man for real. He is the true conservative in this race and appears to be his own man.
Well I am an educated Republican who is voting for Schiff. He is the only candidate that stands for something, and he stands up for freedom and ending this crony capitalism that is stuck in DC.
I absolutely love that quote, fred. Arrogance is the down fall of many.
Also when you have to go after people that are NOT the candidate, but are instead family or friends, you begin to cultivate an air of desperation that I think most voters do not find appealing.
I’d like to come there and campaign for Peter. The man is a living-legend who could very well save this country as President when the $hit really hits the fan as it will within this decade. The can cannot be kicked much further.
This is coming from a 21 year old who has had his political apathy cured by Ron Paul as a teenager and subsequently enhanced by the fantastic speaker Schiff. Both of whom have very very high levels credibility due to historical knowledge, economic knowledge and in general a higher level of intelligence and guts than anyone else.
1776 to 1984…lets get back to 1776!
I agree that the other two are RINOs, and the two democrats are a joke. Will enough people have woken up to the Bush/Obama one party system of inflation, corruption, taxation by theft, endless wars, destruction of privacy and civil liberties, gigantic deficits, socialism and cronyism.
Here is an excellent video if you are so inclined to learn what he has to say about him on his father. By the way his book was BANNED! by our good big brother. BANNED!
Please if you live in Conn. and care anything about our future do whatever you are able to do for this man, he is a rare credible and genuine opportunity to reverse this.