There can be little doubt now that Preston Smith has comletely "lost it". He is now attacking his opponent for having supporting President Clinton in 1992 who ultimately appointed the judge in Az. who recently entered a temporary injunction against certain sections of the new Az. immigration statute. The appointment occrrued in 2000. Now by using that same logic Smith who supported President Bush is responsible for the Iraq war and the thousands of lives lost in it over weapons of mass destruction that did not exist and for good measure Smith is then also responsible for the huge deficit Bush run up by doing two tax cuts, a war and a prescription drug bill none of which was paid for. Make sense? Of course not, but what is tragic is that Smith demonstrates how disconnected he is to reality when somehow those events are connected but an exmanination of his own character concerning events he had direct control over and bears ultimate responsiblity is not relevant. The transcript of Smith is now avaiable on the web, frankly the people of this community who put him in office need to read it and then come back and tell us why we should still support this fellow, (see: http://politicalvine.com). It does not matter whether or not this young girl was on his payroll or not, the facts are he was a grown man, who had four children, at least one only one year old, he had an affiar with two different woman and according to various outlets potentailly many more but by his own admission two, one of whom was two years out of high school. Further, he is not supporting his wife and children as they should be even now. He is just another pathic, narcissistic, ego driven politican that when he looks in the mirror sees only himself if it is something to be taking credit for and never sees himself when there is something to take responsiblity for, especially his own failings. We need to think about would we really want to give any person of any party bearing any other label the power of the office of attoreny general, waht type of judgment would he bring to the resposiblities of that office in light of his personal conduct and his ability to properly reflect upon it? Smith has lost my vote, he needs to walk away or if not we all need to push him off the stage of public acceptability.

I am highly entertained by this entire Preston Smith saga. As with everyone else, I remember his first campaigns in 2002 and 2004: how he recruited campaign supporters from Berry and West Rome as a "family man," led a very visible campaign where his family was always around, almost brainwashing college students to register and vote for him because he was so cool. For all of this to come out years after, and after much skepticism on my behalf, is just hilarious. He had an affair with a very naive college student who was also his nanny/personal assistant. And now he's running for Attorney General! I'm drinking my coffee and laughing this morning. Thank God I moved out of Georgia!

I had an epiphany this morning..what if this timing is not politically motivated BUT rather GOD motivated, maybe God is sick and tired of sorry sleazy politicians using HIS values and HIS teachings to get votes! Maybe God said enough Hypocrites and is spitting them all out of His mouth! Good riddance Preston Smith! and heres a great idea for a t-shirt Prestons face iside a circle and a slash on a white WIFE BEATER tank top..seems appropriate dont ya think!

factsforfree:

can u post a link to the transcripts? i can't find anything on Political Vine

I am not defending Preston Smith or anyone else, nor am i taking a shot at anyone on this issue. But I know that every time you turn around, one of our elected officials get caught in an extra marital issue, or something else that is just as disgusting. We all have skeletons in our closet, however when you are in a public service position, your closet is opened up more often than others. I find it disgusting how many of our elected officials are turning out to be elected dirt bags. At least this time one finally got exposed before getting elected.

Smith ran for the state senate as a man of family values and as a Christian, and he was neither. Is there any truth to the story that he tried to divorce his wife by just signing his initials to the court papers. If so, it is to bad that his name was not Preston Ivan Stephan Smith. He would make a great canidate for the hypocrisy party.

There are three sides to any marriage problem: His side, her side, and the truth. Problem is we'll never hear the truth. Yes, Preston's political career is over and maybe justifiably so, but we'll never know what was transpiring in his home life that caused him to seek solace elsewhere. Sad ending to a promising career.

Good riddance Preston Smith....You have managed to ruin your reputation and career for the oldest damnation of any man...a piece af tail!Hope it was worth it scumbag!

Whenever a politician starts to change his story and "clarify" facts and timelines, there is always something more he is trying to cover up. Preston Smith is done in politics now.

Preston Smith must think the voters of this state are complete idiots. The man is a pathological liar. This morning in the RNT, he claims all of these affairs took place while he was separated from his wife. Read the court transcript and the Atlants newspaper report. His wife caught him in the act late one night at his campaign headquarters. Does that sound like they were separated? Read in the court document where Preston whines about his wife yelling at him and throwing things at him IN THEIR HOUSE after she finds about about the affairs.

Then he wants you to believe the affair with the intern started AFTER he quit paying her. Come on Preston, who are you kidding? What about the second state employee who was working in the Senate Budget Office? She just stopped working there in the past 30 days. How do you explain that one? Oh, I know, it's Sam Olens dirty tricks. No Preston, it is your sick, perverted behavior of preying on young women that is the problem.

And before he gets to far down the road of denying the drinking episode on April 4, 2008, Preston let me remind you that nearly every state senator saw you expelled as did at least 3 members of the news media. There are people who will testify they provided the liquor, that they were with you in Senator Mullis' office drinking and watching the Braves game on tv. There are way too many eyewitnesses who will not lie for you anymore. Your charade of conservative christian with "uncommon courage" is over. Just be a man one time and tell the truth Preston.

Preston Smith has an extra-marital affair and he does admit that he was wrong but then he had to add that his opponent was once one of those big bad incompetent Democrats. Doesn't Smith know that others have switched parties ? Well, yes he does and some have been very close to him.

Everyone should go read Preston's divorce pre-trial hearing transcript. It's posted on www.politicalvine.com. Read it all and see for yourself what a worthless creep this guy is. I can't imagine any woman voting for this jerk after the way he treats the mother of his 4 children.

And how creepy is it that a 36 year old man talks a naive young girl, just 2 years out of high school, out of her pants? The man is a sicko. Not to mention that putting your girlfriend on the state payroll is a huge no-no.

This story is going to only get worse. There are too many eyewitnesses including other Senators and members of the news media who saw Preston expelled from the Senate for being highly intoxicated on April 4, 2008. Check his voting record and you will see he missed the last 25 minutes and several critical votes. He couldn't even hold his head up after drinking all evening in the office of another Senator. Casey Cagle was consulted with by Eric Johnson before he was removed from the Chamber. People have covered for this creep's poor behavior for too long and now they have had enough. I say put every single one of them under oath and lets see who will perjur themselves for Preston now.

Oh, and by the way, Preston hasn't even lived in Rome for the past 2 years, yet he is our Senator. He lives and works in Atlanta regardless of what he claims. Just look at his campaign disclosure and you will see where he uses campaign money to pay apartment rent year-round. That is despite getting $175 per day from the state for meals and lodging.

I can assure you I am not a scorned girlfriend, ex-lover---I just hate when someone thinks they can treat someone so bad and then try to act like a pillar of the Christian community. Do people cheat and make mistakes, sure they do. But if it is a mistake, you don't keep doing it...like cheating on your wife numerous times. You don't leave your wife and kids penniless and in the limbo of "separated" for years, yet you go off and buy 2 new cars and a Harley motorcycle. You do underhanded things like quitting your job and living off your retirement to keep soon to be ex-=wife from getting it. And when you are in the public eye and make mistakes, you say you are sorry---not to us, but to your family. And should it be publicly. Sure if you embarrassed them publicly. It wasn't one night or even one affair. And it wasn't that he found the love of his life---it was numerous women. And how sad for his kids who have to have their worse nightmare on the front page of papers...WHY WOULD HE RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE AND SUBJECT THEM TO THIS??? The answer to that question says it all...what kind of man would do that???

indepthinker, Is that all you got?..Why don't you tell us what you really think..Just kidding..If guilty of all you accuse, then he is a scumbag..Although you do sound like a scorned girlfriend.

...and yes, I do rely on God to get me through the pain that medication does not help me avoid. Call me delusional, crazy, etc, but it does not make delusional, crazy, etc. to believe in God, nor rely on him to help me through issues that we, as humans, cannot can do nothing about.

Yeah, I take pain medication for pain, yet I have been able to maintain a high GPA in school and function fairly normal(aside from bad pain days). It does not affect my decision making ability(unless the pain is bad, then I am in a bad mood) and I stand by any comments I post.

If Mr. Smith was using campaign contributions to pay for anything other than his campaign, then he does not deserve to be in any elected office. Paying for a lovers rent, or anything else like that, is a violation of the truth of the people that gave him that money. I am a lot of things, but unreasonable is(normally) not one of things.

I certainly am interested in seeing some proof that Mr. Smith did anything that he is being accused of.

TomParks: Both parties are indeed stupid. But only the GOP has claimed title to Morality and Family Values for three decades now. Although we Democrats may still be floundering over what we stand for, in light of their example that may be a good thing.

jawga dude, Gonna' have to disagree on that one..I've known Richard for many years..he was an outstanding educator and helped alot of kids along the way..Friend of mine as well..I don't research my friends, I can judge their character..

jawgadude writes: "Voter, conservatives are sworn to always say 'Democrat' and never 'Democratic' because it gets under Demoncrats skin..."

Actually, I don't mind if conservatives want to come off as the ignorant rubes so many of them are. So, party on.

Voter, conservatives are sworn to always say "Democrat" and never "Democratic" because it gets under Demoncrats skin... oh yeah, I forgot "Demoncrat".

And Richard Marable a fine Democrat? LOL!!!!!!!! He almost lost in 2000 against someone from Bartow County and then Preston cleaned his clock in 2002. Do a little research and you'll find a boatload of unethical actions of the part of "Poor Richard".