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Virtual NHGOP Chair Judd Gregg

by: Dean Barker

Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 23:56:15 PM EDT
DiStaso:
One Republican referred to Ayotte as "Judd Gregg's creation."

Once out of the Attorney General's office, this Republican said, Ayotte "needs to sit down with someone who knows the nuts and bolts of politics. She has to decide if she wants to run as a conservative or a moderate, where she is on taxes and social issues."

Leaving aside the brazen lack of integrity implied in that last paragraph, this counts as another episode of Yet Another Reason to Read Blue Hampshire. That Gregg was behind all this was emerging a month ago.

Adding: did it take three former GOPer governors (Gregg, Merrill, Benson) to topple one former GOPer governor (Sununu)? I have to say I find the back story to the Ayotte Project a lot more interesting than the candidate.
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Virtual NHGOP Chair Judd Gregg | 2 comments
Ah, the blank slate... (0.00 / 0)
I guess now we could compare Ayotte to Clarence Thomas: a Republican affirmative-action hire with no track record to sully her candidacy.

On second thought, that's unfair to Ayotte. I'd have to say she's more accomplished than Thomas. But still, to enter a high-profile campaign with no political past? Priceless. I'm sure Judd is looking forward to playing 'Enry 'Iggins with his would-be protege. We'll see whether Ayotte actually has ideas and plans and courage of her own, or if she's happy to be a malleable puppet for the Grand Old Men of the GOP.

(This is, by the way, why Republicans hate affirmative action so much. Whenever they do it, they're elevating Sarah Palins and Michael Steeles and Jennifer Horns who provide the appearance of inclusiveness. That's the GOP's vision of affirmative action: choosing the unqualified for purely cosmetic reasons. They can't see that in real life, affirmative action simply evens the playing field among those with equivalent qualifications.)  

Republicans aren't concerned about qualifications based on (4.00 / 2)
achievement for the simple reason that they are focused on who or what someone IS, rather than what s/he's done.  When there's only one commandment to follow, the particulars of that obedience need not be considered.
I suppose that is some quarters, "team player" is preferred to obedient, but the meaning is the same.  The individual is part of a group and has no personal identity.
What's interesting about this, in retrospect, is that it explains the fierce antagonism towards godless soviet communism as a product of envy. Ditto in regards to the current agitation over "fundamentalist Islam."  It's not the submersion of the individual that's being objected to; it's the "false" god.  Which, of course, is why the conversion democracy, where the ballot box takes the place of the religious hierarchy, looks to be a slam-dunk.  A vote is as much participation in the selection of the leader/ruler/authority as anyone could want.

Republican support for dictatorial regimes is not a matter of hypocrisy.  It's what they're about.  Dictators being selected at the ballot box is better than the hereditary or military track because it gives arm-chair generals a shot.

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