Where Does Judd Gregg’s Replacement, Bonnie Newman, Stand on the Issues?

 Now that New Hampshire is going to have a new senator the Union Leaders asks in this acticle, where does senator-designate Bonnie Newman stand on the issues? A fair question, she has never ran for an elected position so she has never had to campaign on issues before.

 She calls herself a reasonable Republican. Needless to say that qualifier before her party affiliation is a little annoying as it infers that most Republicans are not reasonable.

“If you took (Republican Sens.) Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe and (Democrat) Jeanne Shaheen and Bonnie, probably among the four of them, there are not going to be a heck of a lot of issues that they are not voting the same way on,” Helms said.

 That sums it all up right there, I don’t need to know any more. Governor Lynch has taken some heat from the Democrats because of his willingness to appoint a Republican to fill Judd Gregg’s seat and it has been unfounded. Governor Lynch was never going to give the seat to a conservative. In Bonnie Newman he has picked a person who will side with the Democrats as often as not and held the seat away from a conservative Republican so that the Democrats will have a good chance to pick up that seat in 2010.

 One of the president’s goals with Judd Gregg’s nomination to his cabinet was to pick up the 60th vote in the senate but Lynch appointing a Republican to that seat has denied him that vote. Or has it?