Jynifur Dawnawho up to her monkey business again

What do you expect? (0.00 / 0)

Judd Gregg is head of the advisory board.

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by: xteeth @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 11:35:53 AM CDT

McLane Hall at Dartmouth (4.00 / 1)

her grandfather also served as (interim)President of the College in Hanover...

www.KusterforCongress.com

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by: JonnyBBad @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 11:49:31 AM CDT

Dartmouth (0.00 / 0)

The McLane family has been extremely generous to Dartmouth, both in grants to the college as well as in scholarship support for students.

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 12:00:58 PM CDT

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Funny, here in Georgia the entrance to my house fronts on (4.00 / 2)

McLane Avenue--all of two blocks long.

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by: hannah @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 12:13:23 PM CDT

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Democrats are by definition not important people, so there's nothing (0.00 / 0)

to be gained by knowing who they are and what they do.  Indeed, the errors you point out send the message that providing publicity for Democrats is pro forma and shouldn't be held against the author.

Might as well be a researcher in the tropics. Who cares whether the investigator gets the savages' names right?

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by: hannah @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10:44 PM CDT

Her idiocy is frustrating (0.00 / 0)

The points you made, especially confusing a midterm with a primary, would be frustrating coming from anyone, but from a "pundit" they are unacceptable. Has she even read polls showing how popular Obama is and how few people, including Republicans, can identify a leader or party platform? We shouldn't become complacent or expect an easy victory, but we also shouldn't let someone drum up an imagined rising right-wing tide.

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by: FrankLloydMike @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 13:25:51 PM CDT

Kelly "Death's head" Ayotte (0.00 / 0)

So-called for her embracement and aggressive use of New Hampshire's narrowly applied death penalty...You heard it here first.

---SWL

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by: TaxiManSteve @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 13:35:43 PM CDT

Paraphrased (4.00 / 6)

WMUR is on the beat!  Top notch, top notch!  I hear a Murrow knocking at the door.

http://www.wmur.com/politics/1...

In New Hampshire's congressional races, Republican Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta has announced a run against Democratic U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter.

Hodes' Senate race would leave his House seat open, and Democrats Annie McClane Kuster, Katrina Swett and Mark Furnold have announced their campaigns. Hodes defeated former Republican Rep. Charles Bass, who is considering a run for his old seat.

And from Gennipher Dhonehugh:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

As for the Congressional races, Mayor Frank Guinta of Manchester appears to be the one to run against Rep. Carol Shea-Porter. She has been vulnerable since she upset 2006 Primary opponent Jim Craig and won her seat then ousted Rep. Jeb Bradley (now a State Senator after losing his rematch to Porter in 2008). So that one is an unclear outcome.

In CD 2, a crowded Democratic field with Annie McClane Kuster, Katrina Swett, and Mark Furnold should not be any comfort to former Rep. Charlie Bass as he tries to win back his seat.

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by: Hope Not Fear @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 13:56:27 PM CDT

Tiepohz (4.00 / 1)

Glad you grabbed the text. The HuffPost slobber has been adjusted, but the WMUR (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V) piece is still as regurgitated.

www.KusterforCongress.com  

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 17:23:48 PM CDT

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Outstanding catch. (4.00 / 2)

Incredibly bad punditry meets the stenographer press.

And so a meme is carried.

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by: Dean Barker @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 17:36:36 PM CDT

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Ah Ha! A clever HuffPo trap (4.00 / 3)

to catch WMUR in a blatant copyright violation!

The NH Attorney General should prosecute!

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by: elwood @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 18:42:39 PM CDT

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J-Do is to punditry what Tim McCarver is to baseball announcing (4.00 / 3)

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. -Harry Truman

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by: Peter Sullivan @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 14:04:07 PM CDT

Like walking out of a movie theater ... (4.00 / 4)

I started reading J-Do's column, and about a paragraph into it thought to myself, "you know, you'll never get this moment of your life back," and abruptly stopped.

President, NH Young Democrats

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by: Garth Corriveau @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 17:39:17 PM CDT

Ayotte's best bet would be with the other party (0.00 / 0)

Actually, if Kelly Ayotte wants to run for elective office in 2010, her best bet would be as a Democrat for the CD-2 US House seat. (She lives in Nashua, which is in the 2nd CD.)  The Democrats are much better organized than the Republicans, and have somewhat more money: it would be foolish to run as a Republican if you have allies in the other party.  She does have some allies on the Democratic side of the aisle, starting with Gov. Lynch. (And if elected, she would be a member of the majority in DC, which makes a huge difference in how effective you can be.)

She would have to explain away her anti-choice litigation during the Planned Parenthood vs. Ayotte case, which made it all the way to the Supreme Court.  But she is good at explaining things away and probably would be a formidable candidate.  Although she is not as well known as Ms Dunaghwhoo of the huffPost thinks, she is much better known than the other House candidates who have stepped forward.

Or, if Lynch gets fed up with being Governor, she could run for Governor.

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 18:00:44 PM CDT

Oh, please. (4.00 / 1)

She is a Benson appointee with a strong record against reproductive rights and gay rights. She would NEVER, NEVER, EVER win a Dem primary in NH.

(Or rather, NEVER in the present or future. Circa 1972 she might.)

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by: elwood @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 18:45:00 PM CDT

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Got with it (0.00 / 0)

The further we drag her to the left, the more unpalatable she will be for the purists of the NHGOP.

If I where Lynch, and wanted to thwart Ayotte's chances, I would become her BFF.

Hmmm....that might not work. Though the GOoPers are usually pretty good on message discipline, they are rarely consistent. Going from Lynch is a spend-a-holic to Ayotte's bipartisan cred is legitimized by Lynch's "endorsement" isn't much of a stretch for the logically challenged.

www.KusterforCongress.com  

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 19:04:06 PM CDT

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There is NO WAY to drag her to the Left. (0.00 / 0)

And any claim to bipartisan cred she has - which is minimal - evaporates if she runs for anything.  

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by: elwood @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 19:15:33 PM CDT

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oh I dunno: (0.00 / 0)

She did keep silent during the gay marriage debate... unlike the Governor.  Regardless of which party's banner she runs under, that's not a winning issue for her: most Granite Staters do favor equality.  (Even the most vile opponents of marriage equality approached the issue obliquely, by raising trumped-up technical concerns and/or by claiming that civil unions were good enough and/or by making false historical generalizations.)  The abortion issue would be a huge problem.  She could certainly get 26% or more of a 4-way primary fight.  I hope she doesn't, but she could.

The Republicans have been actively avoiding primary fights--- which is killing them (luckily) in CD-1 since Frank Guinta (who has the brains of a turnip) has already been anointed as the nominee.  I am not saying Carol Shea-Porter is a shoo-on, but I am saying that if she loses her seat it won't be because Guinta outsmarted or outdebated her.

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 19:05:23 PM CDT

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You maybe weren't paying attention. (4.00 / 1)

She intervened in the California case, claiming CA gay marriage would be a problem for NH, until someone pointed out NH law to her.

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by: elwood @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 19:07:43 PM CDT

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what do you have against turnips? n/t (4.00 / 3)

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 19:20:55 PM CDT

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Didn't you get the WMUR memo? (4.00 / 3)

She's a "moderate" Republican, according to their copying of Donahue report on the Todd report.

So it must be true!

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by: Dean Barker @ Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 20:45:38 PM CDT

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