Rob Simmons Announces That His Suspended Campaign Will Produce (Suspended) Campaign Ads

The susurrations that Rob Simmons might return to the Connecticut Senate race after losing out at the state convention continue to grow louder. Simmons, who has basically spent the past month reminding anyone who would listen that he remains on the ballot for the upcoming GOP primary, has announced that he will take some of the money left in his campaign coffers and put up some ads. What would those ads do? You know... remind people that he's on the ballot!

Over at The Day, Ted Mann has the script of the yet-to-be-produced ad:

"Today, it's important to vote with your heart and your head. Bailouts and tax increases have crippled the economy and cost us jobs. Small business is our backbone. Let's help them. National security must remain strong. Put your trust in the candidate who is and will be an advocate for veterans. These issues will have a lasting effect on our children. In the Republican primary on August tenth, you do have a choice. I'm Rob Simmons, I'm still on the ballot, and I approved this message."

Linda McMahon's campaign responds with a reminder:

"Rob Simmons gave his word on multiple occasions that he would not primary if he lost the convention, and we take him at his word," said McMahon spokesman Ed Patru. "He's assured us earlier this month that he's a man of his word. That said, we are taking nothing for granted in terms of the primary."

And so the shadow campaign continues!

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Comments

[CarolinaYankee]

04:01 PM on 07/22/2010

ha ha ha Another McCain't campaign suspender, we all saw how well that worked out for the GOP and McCain't. What a joke this guy is. What will his new ads say "I'm Backkkk", or "I gave my word I would not Primary if I lost the convention but my word is as good as the rest of the GOP",vote for me anyway.

[lightnessandjoy]

03:18 PM on 07/22/2010

So, primary is now a verb?

[MYSTERIOUS]

01:39 PM on 07/22/2010

I'd say that two wars and tax-cuts for the very rich pretty much crippled the conomy, forcing drastic action like bail-outs. Who created the tax cuts and two wars?

[judesuper]

02:18 PM on 07/22/2010

That's right mysterious.

Bushies wars, tax-cuts for the rich and the bail-outs (yea they were bushies). All unfunded bush spending. When will the voters ever learn that the repub party are the spenders and borrowers.

China paid for it all, but we are going to have to pay them back. I say give them texas! They want to secede anyway. Even steven, that would eliminate the entire debt!

[Steve249]

12:41 PM on 07/22/2010

People of Connecticut, please vote for Peter Schiff in this race!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxiXg_RP8B8

RINO Linda and career politician Rob Simmons bring nothing to the table and will not win the general election. People are sick of RINO's and they are sick of career politicians. Peter Schiff is not a career politician. He is a sucessful businessman that accurately predicted the economic crisis exactly as it happened, and he also happens to be the most articulate and passionate defender of true free market capitalism out there today. Watch this video of him predicting the current economic crisis, you will be AMAZED!!! The guy really knows what he's talking about when it comes to the economy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw

[Takebackourmoney]

01:45 PM on 07/22/2010

Peter Schiff is a successful businessman with the GOP talking points. He has been talking about the economy for many many years and that is all he knows. He has nothing to officer as a leader.

[Steve249]

02:20 PM on 07/22/2010

GOP talking points? That's ridiculous. There was no one that I know of that was a bigger critic of Bush economic policies than Peter Schiff. Watch some of his videos on youtube. It is not a GOP talking point to call for a return to the gold standard or for abolishing the Department of Energy or Department of Education or to say federal drug laws are unconstitutional or to say the Iraq War was a mistake from the beginning and we should get our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan now.

The fact that Schiff is most well-versed on economic matters is only a plus. That is the #1 issue in the country right now, and the national debt is the biggest threat our country faces.

[demorick]

11:40 AM on 07/22/2010

This joker even makes LIEberman look normal...

[klinzboy]

11:59 AM on 07/22/2010

I take your point but nothing can make Lieberman look like anything other than what he is.

[DXM]

11:17 AM on 07/22/2010

"Bailouts and tax increases have crippled the economy and cost us jobs."

What in the world is this guy talking about? First off, what tax increases? Taxes have been cut!!! Secondly, bailouts did not cripple the economy and cost jobs. It was because of the collapse (or near collapse) of to-big-to-fail financial institutions that the economy was crippled. The bailouts were designed to limit the damage - they were an effect of the collapse not the cause of it! Yet another moron whose views are divorced from anything resembling reality!

[Fenarkleman]

10:54 AM on 07/22/2010

This guy is drunk on clam chowdah! It's the chowdah!

[MikeDu]

10:54 AM on 07/22/2010

Connecticutt senate race. Would this be called "Pulling a 'Lieberman'"?

[Hillbilly49]

10:43 AM on 07/22/2010

Who is this clown?

[SimianNation]

10:43 AM on 07/22/2010

The word of the GOP is worth what, maybe enough for a cup of coffee?

[dwillisno1]

11:43 AM on 07/22/2010

Who can understand the irony that a republican not keeping his word is surprising to other republicans!? Could this mean that they are so clueless that they don't actually know how bereft of honor they are?

[SPQR1052]

10:35 AM on 07/22/2010

vince has some cute boys and from what i understand switch hits... just saying.

[mwat35]

10:18 AM on 07/22/2010

Good for him. He knows that mcmahon cannot win a general election

[Skunkman]

09:16 AM on 07/22/2010

For eight months, Rob Simmons promised Connecticut Republicans that he would not primary if he lost the convention. He lost the convention, then immediately announced he would primary. Hours later, he dismissed his staff and announced he wouldn’t primary. Over the past two months, he’s been engaged in a very strange and erratic effort to reconcile his promise not to run with his desire to return to Washington. Just my opinion but Simmons was a lousy Congressman who was defeated by a better man. Now with our Attorney General pulling a
Martha Cokley Simmons the man of his word (ha) is trying to jump back into the Senate race.

[release the hounds]

08:31 AM on 07/22/2010

We've been cutting taxes like deranged lumberjacks and eliminating regulation ever since the Eisenhower era, always based on the theory that it would promote innovation and stimulate business investment and job growth in the U.S.. The result? Industry and jobs fleeing overseas like roaches from the light, infrastructure neglected and crumbling, a distribution of wealth worthy of a third world dictatorship, third rate educational levels, etc., etc.—all presided over by crass, self-serving politicians continuing to sell the failed notion that even lower taxes and even less regulation will put us back on the road to glory. It would be laughable, if it weren't for the all the voters still willing to buy this stale rhetoric and elect these political pitchmen.

[dtotire]

02:07 PM on 07/22/2010

Good post.

[RSKaz]

08:23 AM on 07/22/2010

Someone check to see who owns the company making the signs.