How Does Governor Sununu Sound?
Forgive me for diving into the 2010 election already but just hear me out on this one. I have a little bit of optimism after learning that New Hampshire house Republicans gained 17 seats in this election.
I am of the opinion that this will be Lord Teflon’s last term as governor of the great state of New Hampshire, not because he is in any danger of losing a re-election bid but because I don’t think that he will be running again. I believe his goal is to follow the path of the state’s last governor, Jeanne Shaheen and he is looking at taking on Judd Gregg in 2010 for the United States senate. His latest term ends conveniently on the same year as does Judd Gregg’s. I believe with all my conviction that this will be John Lynch’s next move.
That being said, one of the problems that Republicans have had in trying to defeat John Lynch is that they haven’t had a candidate with name recognition. Obviously John Sununu has that. He would be well funded and may actually get the help of the NHGOP. Speaking of the NHGOP, it is time for Fergus Cullen to go, we need new blood in the chairman’s position.
Anyway, I know and understand that he just lost his re-election bid and is unpopular right now, but two years is a long time and anything can happen before then. This time it would be the Democrats who would yield a candidate of little known background, although that didn’t stop New Hampshire voters for voting for Obama, and perhaps this would give John Sununu an advantage.
So while John Lynch, in my opinion, will jump ship to the US senate just in time to avoid the consequences of his failed economic policies, Republicans will have a chance to win back the governorship.
I say draft John Sununu. It may sound foolish now to those that voted him out but in two years, maybe not so much. What’s the worse that could happen? Joe Kenney only got 25% of the vote.
Republicans make Gains in New Hampshire State House
Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
Not all was lost for conservatives in New Hampshire. Sure we re-elected the teflon governor, the executive council remained in Democrat control by the same 3-2 margin, and the state senate remained in Democrat by the same 14-10 margin. The fact that the state senate did not see further Republican losses was a small victory. But there was one other victory that wasn’t quite as small.
In the New Hampshire house, Republicans won back 17 seats. This is a pretty good sign, it would have been a better sign but house Republicans are still a 224-176 minority. But as this article states it could giver New Hampshire Republicans the template to make further gains in the next election.
There was also a bright spot that could provide a blueprint for a future comeback. A patchwork of localized efforts by various Republican activists and groups produced a 17-seat GOP pick-up in the state House of Representatives. It isn’t much, but the solution to the larger problem could lie in a more coordinated, better-funded effort along those lines, focusing on the Democratic-led spending at the State House.
The issue that New Hampshire Republicans need to hammer home is the out of control spending that has hurt our state since Lord Teflon (John Lynch) became governor.
Where the Republicans did pick up seats, they focused on spending and the impending huge revenue shortfall. Republicans on the ground feel that with a more coordinated effort, and more money, the House could have been won back. We’ll never know, but 2010 is just around the corner.
In an election cycle where there wasn’t anything positive if you are a Republican, at least New Hampshire Republicans can hang their hats, and their hopes, on the outcomes of these 17 seats and move forward more organized with a clear message and take back this state.
Below is a video that shows President-elect Obama supporters at a rally outside the white house celebrating Barack Obama’s historic victory. In this video we can clearly see the flag of communist Russia.
It appears as though his winning the presidency is historic on more than one level. Not only is he the first black president, he is also the first president that communists can relate to.
Now that Obama has Been Elected I Feel Liberated
A strange thing has happened since Barack Obama became the president-elect. I feel liberated. I don’t know how else to explain it.
I don’t know whether it is simply the fact that the longest presidential campaign in history is finally over or just that I know longer feel obligated to defend my party. It is probably both. It has been obvious for quite some time that Barack Obama was going to win the presidency, but until it actually happened I felt compelled to do whatever I could to stop it. Now that he has won I can sit back and relax. Whatever happens and wherever Obama’s agenda takes us I can react to it and write about it.
I no longer feel I am writing from a defensive position. While I have always gone on the offensive with my posts, while I have tried to take the fight to the Democrats, it has always been in the interest of defending my party. But now my party is truly in the minority in all branches of government and I no longer have anything to defend. Whatever happens going forward will be under a Democrat majority with a Democrat president. So anything that happens in Washington that needs defending will need defending from Democrats. It will need defending from people like me who are now ready to go on the offensive.
It really is strangely liberating.
Obama Warns his Supporters not to Expect too Much From Him
It started even before the election was over, it started with this article. What am I talking about? The tamping down of the unrealistic expectations that President-elect Obama has created with his supporters. The article talks about how once Obama assumes the presidency there will be no real change.
despite Obama’s often repeated call for “change” during the campaign, many of the writers and political experts who spoke said Obama would pursue familiar paths as president.
There is really no “change” in any of President-elect Obama’s plans, they have all been proposed before.
James Matthews, a management consultant based in New York, said that on domestic issues such as education, nearly all of Obama’s policies have been seen before. He predicted that many young college students who were among his strongest supporters would feel severely let down after the election.
This appears to me to be a warning to Obama’s supporters not to expect too much to get done and not to expect a whole hell of allot of change.
Barack Obama himself tried to slow down the enthusiasm of unrealistic expectation to his audience during his victory speech last night.
President-elect Obama, during his speech said:
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts.
In that first statement he is either warning voters that he can’t possibly give everything to everyone, as he promised, or he is already starting his re-election bid.
Everyone knows that Barack Obama can’t deliver on everything that he promised, well everyone but the people who voted for him. And with the article that appeared before the election and Obama himself during his victory speech he is trying to slow down the expectations of the voters who supported him.
Now that he has won the election he is trying to be slightly more honest with the American people. Not fully honest, he can’t admit that he said whatever it took to become the president-elect, but he is trying to let them down slowly.
President-Elect Obama Pegs Rahm Emanuel for his Chief of Staff
I don’t know if you have heard this yet or not, but President-elect Barack Obama has promised to bring change to Washington. As a Washington outsider only he would be able to change Washington and not let Washington change him. So he said.
In the soon to be presidents first act, in order to show us that he indeed will be bring change to Washington he has offered the White House chief of staff job to…………..Rahm Emanuel.
Now that is the way to bring change to Washington, by hiring the man that this article calls, “The sharp-tongued, sharp-elbowed, keenly intelligent veteran of the Clinton White House.” This sounds like just the type of person that can reach across the aisle and unite Democrats and Republicans, doesn’t it? When faced with his first appointment President-elect Obama chooses a Clinton insider.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Where do we go now but Nowhere? (The Future of the Republican Party)
Where do we go now, but nowhere? That is the title of a Nick Cave song. Probably one of his most depressing songs, and that is saying something. If you have ever listened to Nick Cave you know what I mean.
But that is also the question that I began to ask myself today. Where does the Republican party go from here? I just don’t have an answer. I know where they should go, back to their small government ways. But can they or will they?
We just watched a pivotal presidential race and a socialist got elected. We have reached a point in American culture where 52% of America believe it is the job of the United States government to take money from those of us who work and give it to those of us who don’t. We have reached a point where it is accepted behavior for the government to socialize the mortgage industry, the economy, and the banking system. President-elect Obama will continue forth with this precedent that was set in motion by George W Bush. airlines and auto manufacturers will be the next industries to be centralized. But Americans appear to be okay with this. How can Republicans turn this around now that more Americans believe in larger government with more government handouts?
Republicans managed to hold off total disaster by limiting Democrat gains in the senate, they now have two options. The first option is to stop Obama from implementing his far left agenda through the filibuster. How will this play to the American people who bought into the change mantra? President-elect Obama will be able to portray the Republicans as being obstructionists, as more of the same. We have seen how well this war cry worked during the election. If Republicans try this tactic it may lead to even larger Democrat majorities during the next election.
The second option is to work with the Democrats to pass Obama’s agenda, and that will be counter to the base’s agenda. This would have obvious negative effects with the base, where would they go, but nowhere. The base would be forced to vote for the Republicans or stay home.
John McCain made his name by using scenario number two and opposing a Republican president whenever he could, we have seen how well that worked out for Republicans. So now Republicans are licking their wounds and trying to regroup. Republicans must come up with a new strategy, a new message.
While Republicans regroup, the far left agenda will progress to a point where it may be irreversible. It will take years for the Republicans to make back the losses that they have received in the last two years alone. While the Republicans are spinning their wheels the Democrats will make extraordinary gains. What can we do?
Where do we go, but nowhere?
President-Elect Obama
The American people went to the polls today and the voices of the American people were heard. Loud and clear. This was not just a victory for Barack Obama and the Democrats, this was a mandate.
Truth be told the results tonight are not surprising, only those holding out unrealistic hopes still believed that Barack Obama would not be elected as the next president of the United States. Because the results were so predictable I had plenty of time to brace myself for this, I accepted the results long ago.
John McCain was a horrible candidate from the beginning. I apologize for the whole state of New Hampshire to all conservatives out there because if it was not for my state John McCain would never have been the nominee in the first place. The man that stopped President Bush from appointing conservative judges, and the man that supported giving amnesty to illegal aliens should never have been the Republican nominee in the first place.
Because I readied myself for the impending left hand turn the country was ready to take, I began to look at small victories in a tough year for Republicans. These goals were the election of Jeb Bradley in New Hampshire, the re-election of John Sununu in New Hampshire, and stopping the Democrats from achieving a 60 vote super majority.
For the most part those victories alluded me also, Jeb Bradley lost as did Sununu. The only victory that can be claimed by Republicans is the fact that they held off the senate 60 vote super majority.
The American people have rejected Republicans all across the country, the country has turned not just left but hard left, and as the country moves in this direction it is time to look at the reasons why.
The reason is obvious and can be summed up simply; George W Bush. George W Bush ran as a “compassionate conservative” in 2000, but what conservative agenda has he pursued and won? Nothing. George Bush grew the government and spent more money than any previous Democrat president. George W Bush put Republicans behind the eight ball, he has single-handedly set the Republican party back at least twenty years.
I have defended this man for almost two years on this blog through thick and thin, I ignored the fact that he never saw a spending bill that he didn’t like. I started to turn on him during the illegal alien amnesty bill. His claim that there are jobs that Americans won’t do is insulting. Americans will do whatever it takes to take care of their families. I came back to him, where else could I go?
But then President Bush socialized the economy, the mortgage industry, and the banks. That is when he lost me for good, he started America down the path to socialism that Barack Obama will continue and for that I will never forgive him.
The end result of George W Bush’s presidency is Barack Obama’s presidency. The results will be devastating.
Where do conservatives go from here? I have no idea. We must regroup and refocus, we must get back to true conservative ideals, something that George W Bush forgot somewhere along the line. It is going to be a long uphill battle, but it is a battle that must be fought.
It is up to the people to rebuild the party that George W Bush destroyed.
Tonight is Barack Obama’s night, but tomorrow the fight resumes. And I pledge to treat President Obama with the same respect that the left has treated President Bush.
Music Video: Spread the Wealth Around
Perfect!
Hat tip: Political Vindication
Sarah Palin Cleared in Troopergate
Sarah Palin has been cleared of any wrongdoing for the firing of her public safety commissioner.
A report has cleared Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of ethics violations in the firing of her public safety commissioner.
Released Monday, the report says there is no probable cause to believe Palin or any other state official violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act in connection with the firing. The report was prepared by Timothy Petumenos, an independent counsel for the Alaska Personnel Board.
It seems as though someone who breaks the law in Alaska actually has to pay the price. If only that were the case here in the Northeast. Here are the crimes the trooper that Sarah Palin fired had committed:
using a Taser on his stepson, drinking beer in his patrol car, illegally shooting a moose and threatening his former father-in-law.
What an outstanding citizen, huh? She had him fired for these crimes and because she bucked the good ole boy network in Alaska they opened up an investigation on her. An investigation that the left tried to use to bring her down.
But this does offer us a glimpse of how the left thinks. In today’s world of the everyone-is-a-victim-nobody-is-responsible-for-their-actions liberal mindset the trooper who tasered a twelve year old is the victim, while the women who held him accountable is the criminal. It is backward logic.
