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Shorter DiStaso

by: Dean Barker

Thu Sep 03, 2009 at 06:17:23 AM EDT
Shorter DiStaso:
Please ignore scary Jack Kimball. Please. We'll have some UL approved Republican gubernatorial candidate to promote on our newsprint soon enough.
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Shorter DiStaso | 3 comments
Not So Fast (0.00 / 0)
No doubt the party insiders are scared of Kimball.

But consider these factors:
1. Lynch is probably more popular with mainstream traditional Republicans than he is with the more liberal Democratic base. The motivation to charge uphill against a guy with 70% favorability is lacking.
2. Many of the people who identify themselves as strong Republicans are filled with rage and fearful of the changes just begun, whose positive impact is not yet realized for them.
3. Kimball effectively touches that literally reactionary nerve, he speaks for real numbers of people. He is very angry and that connects with much of the Republican base that is still there.  

No'm Sayn?

Kimball was campaigning in Dover Wednesday night (0.00 / 0)
I met Kimball at a MoveOn healthcare vigil which attracted counterprotestors.  He was gracious enough, but he seemed not too interested in dialoging with someone from the other side, which is a bad sign right there.  Any successful candidate has to be willing to at least try to poach votes from the other side.  Even Frank Guinta, who is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, makes some effort to persuade liberals like me.  Carol Shea-Porter tries to persuade people who are shaking their fists and screaming Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! at her.  

Kimball is running against John Lynch, who is the master at getting both sides to support him.

It is hard to imagine how Kimball thinks he will win over 50% plus 1 of the voters in 2010: the yellow T-shirt/ black helicopter crowd is about 5%-10% of the electorate.  Kimball does seem like a real candidate with an actual agenda, however, unlike Kenney and whoever it was who ran against Lynch in 2006 (was it Coburn?)

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Like? (4.00 / 5)
Like Karen Testerman -- the founder of that weird "Cornerstone Policy Research?"  If only we can be so lucky.  It would be a great contrast and I think the people of New Hampshire would understand very well the differences.  We'd have a clear debate.  
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