Gordon Smith's latest radio ad makes me GAG

Why does Gordon Smith continue to run left of himself? He has absolutely NO REASON to have done this election after election. The last time he ran here he won like 70 to thirty percent.

So it seems to me that after you are pretty safely in office like Smith is, you would start to award the base that put you there time after time. I have voted for Smith three times now and what have I got for it? He continually goes on TV trashing Bush and doing a bunch of anti oil drilling and gay rights stuff when he DOESN'T NEED to.

Soeone needs to tell him and his campaign that his loyal supporters are getting seriously frustrated and are wondering why it is we have supported him for all of this NOTHING.

His latest ad talked about how he and Ron Wyden, the democratic senator here, have budied up to each other and that they virtually vote the same way. I GUARANTEE you that Wyden is NOT running similar ads. The reason? Because liberals will NEVER reward conservatives for acting liberal. They will ALWAYS vote for the more liberal guy anyway.

This is McCain's problem right now. All of these years of sticking it to conservatives are getting him NOTHING. All of those journalists that were do excited about him in the primary are turning around and stabbing him in the back, calling him "Bush OLD" and geriatric and all kinds of things.

Reaching across the aisle to a democrat is for the sole purpose of smacking republicans and conservatives need to learn that they need to SELL conservative ideology and not apologize for it. That works every time it's tried in this country, and why in the world Smith doesn't start running as a conservative now that he's in a position to do so is baffling and totally annoying. I am actually considering sitting his race out for the first time in my life. I have held my nose and voted for a lot of liberal republicans, but in Smith's case it is just gratuitous and inexcuseable.