Tea Party Activist Takes Over New Hampshire Republicans

New York Times ^ | January 22, 2010 | Abby Goodnough

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

This should hurt Romney, as he is running away from the Tea Party folks.

I haven't been paying attention. What has he been saying/doing?

[Cobra64]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2661628/posts

[Redleg Duke]

The Old Gray Whore is really going over the cliff with that article.

How dare those Republicans try to make their party different from the RATS!

[robowombat]

This is significant because of NH’s position as the first primary state. TheTP there seems to be the real thing unlike here in SE Louisiana where it has gone into hibernation after Nov leading many to believe the TP was a Repub Party insider vote getting vehicle. This was tipped early by aTP Express effort to push the Lt. Gov candidacy of the Repub Prty State Secretary Villere who I can vouch has no use for popular activism.

[Impy]

Good news in NH. Old man Sununu’s handpicked successor as party chair was defeated by a tea party supported candidate.

Says an unhappy Sununu: “We don’t want to be seen as a party that’s a sliver of a party,”

Perhaps he’s unaware the rat party is the one that’s been reduced to a sliver of the state legislature. No thanks to him.

[SunkenCiv]

He’s basically right — the fact is, we want the sliver of the party comprised of people like him to NOT be considered to BE the party.

[campaignPete R-CT]

campaigning starts in earnest. But not for me until after the Great Melt.

[Impy]

I heard Northern New England might get really cold this weekend. The article said 30 below.

[GOPsterinMA]

Last Saturday it was -10 in Bethel, Maine.

[campaignPete R-CT]

Rte 2 thru Bethel is a good route across NH to Maine

[GOPsterinMA]

I don't know if it's a byproduct of “winning in spite of” like Michael Steele, but the NH GOP came back very strongly under Sununu Sr.

He was on Howie Carr several times, and those appearances were “must listen” for me. I did not get the impression he was anti-TP, quite the opposite I think.

Granted he thrust Souter on us, which constitutes a Scarlett letter of epic failure, but NH did come back under his watch. Although the bad outweighs the good in that scenario.

[GOPsterinMA]

Right! Very scenic...although I’d prefer to be there when it’s at leaast, oh, freezing! :)