2006 was not a good year for Republicans or conservatives. Even worse was 2008. 2012 sucked less than either of those first two years but each of those years present a very low bar on which to measure success in 2012. Serious thought – I really started blogging and talking in earnest after the 2006 election debacle – I had the time (I had become an empty nester as both sons went into the military) and I saw the complete wipe outs that the national and state level GOP suffered, and worse, the ever increasing loss of Freedom and Liberty that those losses engendered.
I now hear the same echos from 2006 & 2008 – and I hear myself thinking the same thing about the GOP that I did back then: you have forgotten who you are. The Establishment didn’t listen to this voice in the wilderness then. 2008 was even worse and I heard more of the same from those in 2006 as to why they lost in 2008. Then 2010 happened and the ensuing Republican wave happened – and they won but for reasons they wouldn’t (and still won’t) admit to – TEA Party, 9/12-ers, Libertarians all came out to stop Obama’s socialist unConstitutional regime rather than”joining” the Republican Party (the latter were just “convenient”).
And then the “New Republicans” found themselves under attack from Democrats AND Establishment Republicans alike. Didn’t help, either, that the Obama Administration has “turned” the IRS and the FEC into partisan branches of the Democrat National Party and / Orgainization for Obama’s Agenda. And as I said above 2012 was better than 2006 & 2008 but while the national GOP was pretty much status quo, not so much here in NH. So, I keep talking to folks about what we perceive to the be the problems – and thus my posts here and the series (Parts one, two, three, and four). To date, I’m not seeing a whole lot of change going on – just like 2006 and 2008. And those that made 2010 work have been going dark.
So, this thought came into this hardcased noggin: is 2014 gonna be another 2006 or another 2008 here in NH? To be truthful (and I do hope that I’m totally off base here), is 2012 a best case scenario for 2014? As of yet, the NH GOP hasn’t even found a candidate to run for Guv even as all of the pros are constantly telling me that Hassan is vulnerable – what is there for the down ticket?
Am I that far off base to have these thoughts rattlin around my braincase, folks?
Am I that far off base to have that rattling around my braincase, folks?
