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can do,” Smith told his receptive audience. “I don’t think I could beat A1 Smith.”
Furthermore, he said, such a campaign “would get a little dirty. We know a lot about each other.”
Smith ticked off the issues he sees, saying that there are “too many” but that his differences with the incumbent Slaughter mean that “I’m going to campaign on more issues than I ought to.”
Among the issues Smith singled out: the budget deficit, the savings and loan crisis, foreign aid, drugs, and abortion.
“Congress should worry a lot more about about some of its choices,” Smith said.
Slaughter is “an incumbent who has a reputation for integrity,” said Rappahannock County committee chairman Doug Baumgardner. “He has a conservative voting record in a conservative district.” The implication is that Smith — whose postiions are fairly conservative — can’t beat Slaughter solely on the issues.
But since Slaughter has “no real prospect at his age of attaining seniority in Congress, which makes it difficult to accomplish anything,” Smith’s focus on “youthful vigor may be workable.”
Choosing his words carefully, Baumgardner also said, “I detect a feeling of enthusiasm [among Democrats], but everybody is aware of the statistics.”
93.9%