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Charlie Bass for Senate (Nominee)

by: Dean Barker

Sun Jun 14, 2009 at 21:50:21 PM EDT
It's been a good long while since there's been any mention of John E. Sununu in the media that hasn't had to do with the TARP oversight committee or the various boards he's taken on.

Here he is in front of West Virginia Republicans offering his so predictably bland ideology:

"We believe in the individual, we believe in opportunity," he said. "Government intervention doesn't work for the economy."
How do you even respond to something like that?

I think I'm rooting for the Sununus to take a pass so that Charlie can play at running for Senate. Three reasons: A) Sununu became deadly boring to blog about after a fairly short amount of time, B) a Hodes-Bass rematch would actually be kind of fun, and C) that would free up CD2 for Jennifer S. Horn-Palin, who would be as bad a fit for that district in 2010 as she was in 2008.
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Charlie Bass for Senate (Nominee) | 4 comments
Make me happy (0.00 / 0)
Hodes has beaten Bass nicely before, and not Sununu. Bass is also from CD2, which means that (especially being stuck in a holding pattern!) Hodes isn't going against any pre-existing relative strength Sununu may have in CD1. Plus, Bass seems more dangerous running for the CD2 seat, where he must have some support remaining, albeit not in his hometown :)

Plus, in the admittedly unlikely event of a Hodes defeat or withdrawl, Charlie Bass would seem a better Senator than Sununu, and more answerable to NH. Run, Charlie, run!

Charlie's Intentions (4.00 / 5)
He WANTS the Senate - badly.  Charlie worships his father, a longtime congressman who lost in '62 to Tom McIntyre after Styles Bridges' passing.  If he thinks he can get the nomination without a 1:1 battle with an anti-choice primary opponent, he'll leap.  If not, he'll run for the Second CD, as he knows he can take Horn.

I do think that Charlie is not Sununu's equal as a candidate, but he shouldn't be underestimated, either.  He won six elections in an increasingly Democratic district (albeit with A LOT of luck), and established some traction in traditionally moderate regions (aka Merrimack County).  He lost in a landslide year -- just as he came in on one -- and would try again in a midterm in a Democratic control year.

That said, if Bass is going to be an effective candidate against Hodes, he will need to remedy his two biggest weaknesses -- lazy fundraising and lazier campaigning. Only time will tell. . .  

Charlie ain't no moderate (4.00 / 1)
the week before the election he lost, I heard him telling a group in Littleton that there was a connection between 9/11 and Saddam, an outright lie that had been thoroughly debunked by then. There were audible groans in the room.

Only the most committed right wing ideologues were still beating that drum in 2006.  

Much Agreed, Susan (4.00 / 1)
If he runs, I will be posting A LOT more information about Charlie's so-called "moderate" record on this site.  This myth deserves to die.

Am fired up and ready to go.

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