Sununu Senior: Fun, but Out of Touch with Today's GOP

My Dad and Stepfather (4.00 / 2)

Today my Dad stopped by the state party office (he and my stepmother live just a few doors away in Concord). He had my niece Taneesha (just made Honor Roll at Hillside Middle School!!)with him and after a visit he went back home for awhile and Taneesha decided to hang out with us, a couple of hours later he came back to pick her up to bring her home to Manchester.

Friday late afternoon, my stepfather called my cell phone not knowing who he was calling - he was looking for my sister Kim but my Mom has all her kids' numbers written next to the phone without our names next to them so he decided to just start calling the numbers until her found the right one. We chatted for awhile, although they have lived near Roanoke Virgina for 18 years he reads the online NH papers to keep tabs on my political activities.

What the heck do these boring stories have to do with this post you wonder?

For forty years I have had two fathers, both are blue collar guys whose lives have been about their family. Neither were governor or the chief of staff at the White House but neither have ever embarrassed me or my family. While both have been pained and hurt when I have failed or been attacked but neither ever did anything that made things worse or made a public scene. After witnessing the public meltdown of the elder John Sununu over his son's defeat, I am so proud of my father and stepfather. The elder Sununu may be making himself look really bad with his bitter behavior but he sure has reminded me how grateful I am to have two mature men to parent me.


Jan 6 - Shaheen/CSP/Hodes sworn in


Jan 8 - Lynch/Council Inauguration


Jan 20 - Presidential Inauguration

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by: Ray Buckley @ Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 21:47:06 PM CST

Yes, Dean did an analysis the other day which showed that (4.00 / 1)

the New Hampshire north country counties gave Obama a greater plurality than the southern tier.  Why did they do that?  The answer, I would suggest, is because they appreciate "No Drama, Obama."  Traditional New Hampshire appreciates workmanlike politicians--people who get the job done without a lot of drama.

I think that's the tack I'm going to take when I do another diary on Wentworth Cheswell, Selectman and much more in Newmarket, New Hampshire from 1768 to 1817--almost a half century of service without drama!

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by: hannah @ Mon Nov 24, 2008 at 12:52:06 PM CST

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Mike Pride, at the (0.00 / 0)

Monitor decided to rank the governors as well.

Here's what he wrote:

You don't have to think long to see the absurdity in John H. Sununu's outburst identifying John Lynch as New Hampshire's worst governor ever. Lynch's predecessor, Craig Benson, was a flat-out embarrassment.

Still, it was good to hear from the Imperious One after all these years. As governor during the 1980s, Sununu bullied and berated anyone who disagreed with him and always wanted you to know he was smarter than you. It turned out he was so smart that, as the first President Bush's chief of staff, he called the appointment of Justice David Souter a home run for conservatives.

As for Governor Lynch, he still has another term, so it's ridiculous to judge him. He could turn out to be New Hampshire's best governor ever, or a mediocre one that everyone liked as a "nice guy."

At any rate, with Benson and Thomson in the mix,it would take some real doing for Lynch to get the title of "worst."

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by: jbd @ Mon Nov 24, 2008 at 06:44:13 AM CST

Second Smartest (0.00 / 0)

I just saw this over at politickernh:

U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-Rye) praised the economic team selected by President-elect Barack Obama and said it ensures a "coordinated handoff" during the transition period.

Nothing about socialist economic policy, nothing about Bill Ayers - another example showing that John E. Sununu today is the second smartest senator from New Hampshire.  

"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 @ Mon Nov 24, 2008 at 13:06:34 PM CST