As much as I like FR, some of you are completely bigoted buffoons. If you don’t want Sununu because of his style - OK, understood. But to be so ignorant as to his conservative record shows your bias towards anyone in a different part of the country. He has a Lifetime Rating of 92.33 (Duncan Hunter has a 92.32) from The American Conservative Union and an 89% rating (Hunter has a 68%) from Citizens Against Gov’t Waste. So, before yapping about “RINOs”, try gaining some knowledge as to what you re talking about.
He lost to Shaheen because our state is becoming infested with Taxachusetts transplants.
"Hey, RNC, here’s a clue: a guy who cannot figure out how to win NEW HAMPSHIRE cannot be charged with leading the nationwide effort. Period. End of story."
I, for one, never called Sununu a “RINO”.
What does concern me was that in his own home state, with a long GOP political pedigree in that state, he lost his recent election; so I do not have confidence that he knows how to win.
You say the problem is that NH has a lot of “taxachusetts” transplants.
However, stories I read about those transplants over the past year usually indicated many were moving to NH to escape the high taxes in Mass.
So, my impression is that the NH environment was improving for a “hold the line on taxes” conservative.
Is that how Sununu campaigned? What were the issues that captured the votes?
First of all I never use the term RINO - in fact I think the term is divisive and the arguments about who is and is not actually conservative ‘enough’ led us to the recent defeats we have suffered at the polls.
Secondly I am not among those who see Duncan Hunter as the be all and end all of conservatism.
What I am against is the continued ‘ownership’ of our party by north-easterners who have little understanding and in some cases a disdain (again, not speaking of Mr. Sununu specifically) for what goes on in middle America and the blue collar country that makes up the core of the conservative movement
I am also concerned that we would place a politician who couldn’t get elected back home in charge of getting other people elected. It seems to me a lot like companies that hire a CEO who ran his last company into the ground - somehow assuming that in failure he has learned some lessons.