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NH Races Get Marquee Attention on GOP Worry Lists

by: Dean Barker

Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 07:52:24 AM EST
What a miserable week for the GOP spin cycle on our federal races here in New Hampshire.

First, Rothenberg notes (per Pindell) that "the jury is still out" on supposed dream recruit Frank Guinta.

Then Time Magazine blasts out a list, "Ten Races That Have Republicans Worried for 2010," that prominently features Craig Benson protege Kelly Ayotte's establishment support in the age of Scozzafava.

And speaking of being Scozzafavaed, The Hill came out with their own Top Ten GOP Worry List.  Ayotte is at number ten.  But even more notable is that Jennifer Horn's (rightful) attempt to paint Charlie Bass as a Republican that no longer exists is paying off.  Look who's third up to bat:

Bass, as the pro-abortion rights former head of the centrist Republican Main Street Partnership, is a natural target for conservatives. Horn has plenty of name recognition as the 2008 GOP nominee for the seat, and she's going after Bass hard. At the tail end of the New York special election, she endorsed Hoffman and said she thought the same dynamic would play out in her race with Bass. Even Bass supporters admit Horn could give him a run for his money, but a diluted primary field could hurt her chances.
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G.O.P.ers perfect Democratic Strategy (4.00 / 2)
It's great to see the adoption and advancement of the Circular Firing Squad first invented by Dempcrats, now being perfected by the REthuglicans. Remember the knock on the Clintons was that to end the in-fighting among our Party we had to unite around more moderate, Main ST. business goals...and it worked. The criticism of becoming too much like your adversaries, or being willing to do anything to win, including taking on and completing Reagan's Republican mantra of Welfare reform, has been heard ever since.
As United as we were for Change for the last cycle we've gone back to in-fighting between differing Democratic constituencies. The first female Speaker of The House let pass a watered down HeathCare REform bill, with weak abortion language,because she neede to satisfy the Papists in our coalition. But pass a bill she did, and it will be wrangled out in the Senate and in Conference.(the issue of the Bishops lobbying from the pulpits for the last few Sundays while collecting funds at the end...this needs to be fought...they have violated their tax free status in my opinion))

So just at the moment when the pendulum of politics is swinging back their way, the Republicans have decided to cannibalize their own. God bless Sarah Palin.
Charlie Bass has a greater chance of winning the general than Sarah Palin Reagan Horn. But the forces of darkness will drive him from the race.

6 days till election day
Have you knocked on doors today? Have you made calls ? Have you talked to your neighbors ?  

Frank Rich weighs in this morning (4.00 / 1)
Rich thinhs that the victories in the Governors rcaes will have more effect on R strategery heading into '10.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11...
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In the aftermath of this clear-cut demonstration of how Republicans can win, the revolutionaries are still pledging to purge the party's moderates by rallying behind more Hoffmans in G.O.P. primaries from Florida to California. And they may get some scalps. But Tuesday's loss revealed that they're better at luring freak-show gawkers into Fox's tent than voters into the G.O.P.'s. As if to prove the point, protesters hoisted a sign likening health care reform to Dachau at the raucous tea party rally convened by Michele Bachmann on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

Should the G.O.P. avoid self-destruction by containing this fringe, then the president and his party will have to confront their real problem: their identification with the titans who greased the skids for the economic meltdown from which Wall Street has recovered and the country has not. If there's one general lesson to be gleaned from Christie's victory over Jon Corzine in New Jersey, it's surely that in today's zeitgeist it's less of a stigma to be fat than a former Goldman Sachs fat cat, even in a blue state.



6 days till election day
Have you knocked on doors today? Have you made calls ? Have you talked to your neighbors ?  
Genie out of the bottle (4.00 / 4)
The Republicans were always good at getting their folks to walk in lockstep, and the Demcorats weren't. The pursuit of profit by conservative media - Fox, Limbaugh, Beck - requires them to get bigger and bigger ratings, bigger and bigger book sales (espeicially Fox, as the newspapers are a drag on Murdoch's empire), so they need to ratchet up the rhetoric, create more drama, which means manipulate the base into a frenzy. But once you create a frenzy, you can lose control, and before you know it you are in a "there go my people, I must run and go lead them" situation.

Look at the Republican House Caucus, they are taking strategy tips from Michelle Bachmann.  




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

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Brilliant line: (4.00 / 3)
"there go my people, I must run and go lead them"


birch, finch, beech
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French Revolution (0.00 / 0)
I heard that line originated with a French Revolution leader.  Not sure which one, but am guessing he emerged without a head. . . .  
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Wish it were mine (0.00 / 0)
But it is not, and the actual quote is, "There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them." DD is correct on the French Revolution genesis.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
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what about Gandhi (0.00 / 0)
I thought Mahatma Gandhi said it: of course maybe he was quoting the French Revolution leader.  (Although we picture him as an Indian asetic in a loincloth, he was also a Western-educated lawyer.)


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