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Hidey-Hodes

The Hodes campaign has made its priorities clear.  I’m referring to the attack ads on Republican primary candidate Kelly Ayotte, whom they have for whatever reason anointed as the primary winner.

 

What does this tell us about Paul Hodes?  Nothing we did not already know.

He intends to distort the facts in pursuit of political power.  He will lie either by omission or just outright.  He is unwilling to listen or wait for the will of the public.  He is sticking to the party talking points.  His campaign is so desperate that it has to go negative before he even has an opponent.  He needs an ignorant uninformed electorate to win.

But this is exactly who Paul Hodes is.  He is the political rebound date no one ever really wanted; a congressman of convenience who simply had connections to the Shaheen cabal, and their big blue bug light to attracted enough out of state money to put up a fight.  He is a party hack who can neither claim to be an independent voice, nor a bulwark against irresponsible spending.  His charade at earmark, budget and ethics reform are entirely partisan and as thin as tissue paper.  He has run away from ethics, voted for other people’s earmarks, and added perhaps as much as a trillion in new “emergency” spending since the re-re-implementation of the sham known as pay-go.  He voted for all the “irresponsible spending” after 2006, and at least three times as much since Obama. He deems things passed, having no spine or principle to prove he cans stand up for what he claims he believes.   And then he hides from his own constituents unless they are “his” constituents, the less than one-third of New Hampshire and the left wing elites that protect his incompetence because the party has left them with no one else to back.

The Ayotte attack ads bring all of this to light.  Hodes has nothing else he can run on because the majority of New Hampshire does not like what he has done.  So he’ll have to do what he does best.  Play Hidey-Hodes, misrepresent his record, and lie about his opponents in the hope that people stop paying attention again long enough for him to squeak into the Senate.

 

 

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