Posted on 10/08/2013 2:26:28 PM PDT by neverdem
Kelly Ayotte was furious.
One media account after another (as here) has the Republican and theoretically conservative New Hampshire senator angrily attacking Senator Ted Cruz in a recent closed-door Senate GOP Caucus. Behaving as follows, this much cited and notably un-refuted coming from the New York Times, bold print supplied here for emphasis:
And on Wednesday at a private luncheon, several Senate Republicans — Dan Coats of Indiana, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Kelly Ayotte of...
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NR was spot on here about Ayotte, and there’s one more thing to add about that Ayotte comment of seeking a “thoughtful, bipartisan solution to a tough problem.” We have cited it here before and, since Ayotte herself used the word, we will again cite William F. Buckley Jr.’s alarm at the very word “bipartisan” with the bold print emphasis.
The most alarming single danger to the American political system lies in the fact that an identifiable team of Fabian operators is bent on controlling both our major political parties(under the sanction of such fatuous and unreasoned slogans as “national unity,” “middle-of-the-road,” “progressivism,” and “bipartisanship.”) Clever intriguers are reshaping both parties in the image of Babbitt, gone Social-Democrat. When and where this political issue arises, we are, without reservations, on the side of the traditional two-party system that fights its feuds in public and honestly; and we shall advocate the restoration of the two-party system at all costs.
So the red flag was already raised about Ayotte, both by Palin and NR, in that case for abandonment of well-stated conservative principle on immigration in the name of “bipartisanship” — a word specifically cited by Buckley as “the most alarming single danger to the American political system.” With no less than Governor Palin herself accusing Ayotte of having gone back on principle...
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“Ayotte is going to be a one-termer just like Scotty Brown. What a severe disappointment to see first termers elected by the grassroots sell out so damn quickly.”
Yeah, replace her with a democrat. Brilliant.
Most of New England is just like old England.
Thanks. You must have been persona non-grata on the board, but I bet the taxpayers among your constituents appreciated you.
If we don’t hold their feet to the fire on Tea Party principles, we’ll have an entire government of RINOs. Making them pay for abandoning us is the only way to ensure the amount of Tea Party folk in Congress continues to rise.
I’m sorry F R I voted for this @$%#^^&^.
This means that they are angry that the People were not fooled by their YES vote on Cloture followed by their NO vote on the House bill, when they later claimed that the voted to SUPPORT the House bill.
All Cruz did was remind people that the opportunity to stop Obamacare funding was to vote NO on Cloture when 60 yea votes were needed, but this group thought that they could be too clever by half and fool the people with the NO vote on the bill itself when only 51 yeas were needed to pass.
-PJ
Exactly. G-d bless Ted Cruz for standing for the TRUTH.
Don't feel bad...she fooled Governor Palin, as well.
Mike Lee and Ted Cruz could destroy those people if they leak what was said to them. I doubt they would do that, just for the sake of the party, but the Senate Republicans are complete fools if they think they can win a war against those guys. Of course they mostly are fools, so...
Excellent, excellent article. Thanks for the post.
“If we don’t hold their feet to the fire on Tea Party principles, we’ll have an entire government of RINOs. Making them pay for abandoning us is the only way to ensure the amount of Tea Party folk in Congress continues to rise.”
I see. So you don’t think NH should even bother to have a Republican, unless it is a full fledged TP type.
NH is not likely to elect such an individual.
Full-fledged? There can be a difference of opinion here or there. I think Pat Toomey has veered a little of course on some issues but not enough for me to feel abandoned. But on the issue of voting with Ted Cruz on the CR, Toomey got it right. Fighting Barrycare is something every Republican should agree on at a bare minimum. And simply saying you hold the position doesn’t count if you’re too cowardly to fight for it even when the outcome is far from guaranteed.
So she was the second one Glenn Beck was talking about today? The first being Midge McConnell.
She revealed her RINO tendencies a while ago, but I had no idea she was rabid.
NH hasn’t had anybody good since Norris Cotton and Meldrim Thomson.
Brown was clearly a moderate from the beginning, anyone who thought otherwise was fooling themselves, and he lost only because of Obama coattails.
Ayotte though was a mystery (ala another famous New Hampshireite, David Souter), pre-election everyone had a different opinion, everything from “very conservative” to “Susan Collins”. I’d say she ranks about a “Judd Gregg” at this point. Not great but better than someone like Brown (or certainly Collins, the worst, most liberal Republican in Congress). She’s more like Coats or McConnell, not liberal but establishment. Coats is an establishment old bull, it’s shame he was nominated in 2010 because the conservative vote was divided. He must keep quiet cause I never hear him criticized.
I’m not a fan of many Palin endorsments but she was not wrong to back Ayotte in 2010. Her main primary opponent, Ovide Lamontagne, is a loser who probably would have lost to the rat Hodes. He was nominated for Governor in 2012 and badly lost a race a he should have won. Given that Ayotte was not clearly any kind of RINO (those who said she was at the time offered no proof) she was the easy pick over the loser Lamontagne. He may be a swell guy but as evidenced by his 2 blowout defeats for Governor in 1996 and 2012, he ain’t ever gonna win high office.
I’m not happy to hear of Ron Johnson of WI being in on this with Ayotte and Coats.
Better to just write off Red England...the people are essentially Democrats.
Is Red Hampshire the ONLY state with two female reps in the House, two in the Senate, and one on the Governor's mansion?
NH DID think they elected a true conservative. Ayotte bare-*assed LIED in her campaign, embraced the support of Sara Palin, and the voters had high hopes for her. Not only is she a saboteur, she's dumb as a pile of rocks. Didn't she learn from the reaction Rubio got when he sold us out (with good intentions I believe) on immigration? Hasn't she noticed that Scott Brown in MA won as a conservative and lost because he was really a "compromiser"? Everyone on the thread is saying her primary competitor would've been just fine.
She's worse than having a democrat. She's a saboteur from within, a minimccain. She might be a kindergarterner in the playground of intellect, but that doesn't excuse her. She decided to be in the US Senate, she should get no better treatment than the other RINO liars. Dumb is not an excuse; she was smart enough to lie about her loyalties and intentions.
Bravo! You nailed it.
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