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The Associated Press has a story out today about how New Hampshire Republicans plan to become relevant again in the Granite State.
The story quotes some big-shot Republican pols waxing philosophical about the thorough spanking they took in the election two weeks ago.
Joe Kenney, the poor chap who was trounced in his bid to unseat our Governor, demonstrated what an incredible class act he is by saying "the Democrats could very easily fall flat on their face in the next two years". What a nice guy! And what a gracious loser Mr. Kenney is!
But my favorite is this fellow called Fergus Cullen, who is chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Committee. Get this, and I am not kidding: His ideas for bringing the state GOP back to life include:
• a stronger GOP pro-education message
• a stronger GOP pro-conservation message
• a stronger GOP health care message
That's right, my friends. Mr. Cullen wants the New Hampshire GOP to totally-completely-profoundly-amazingly reverse itself. He wants the party that has fought against education to become the party OF education. He wants the party that has fought conservation to instantly turn itself bright green. And he wants the state GOP - the party that disgustingly sides with the health insurance industry time and time again- he wants the GOP to say something "stronger" about health care. What possible "stronger statement" would that be?
In point of truth, our good friend, Mr. Fergus Cullen, the chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Committee, is actually describing a modern day road to Damascus Republican-to-Democrat conversion. I can see a movie deal in all of this with Russell Crowe himself reprising the role of the brave Mr. Cullen. Because that nice man, Charlton Heston is no longer available.
The only Republican quoted in the story who made any sense whatsoever was former Governor Walter Peterson. Mr. Peterson spoke wistfully of a time when the GOP represented "social tolerance".
Republicans? Social Tolerance? That must have been a very long time ago!
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