Behold Fergus Cullen's Kool-Aid Pitcher: Alas! For It Is Now Empty! - Granite Grok

Behold Fergus Cullen’s Kool-Aid Pitcher: Alas! For It Is Now Empty!

The superfluous, a very necessary thing. —Voltaire

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Note to Cullen: “We’d rather be drinking the Tea, than slurping the Kool-Aid

Fergus Cullen took to the pages of the New Hampshire Union Leader yesterday to throw out the welcome mat for Former Bay State Senator Scott Brown to run against Jeanne Shaheen and to administer a blistering attack on Republicans who do not fit his GOP center-left template.

Cullen continues his amazing ride atop the waves of his highly visible tenure as New Hampshire State GOP chair. Yet, during Cullen’s largely ineffective tenure, Democrats dominated the Governor’s Office, Then The Senate and the House. To be fair, there was a nationwide democratic wave, but we saw no unique vision from Fergus which planted the seeds for good and effective Republican governance and the Elder Sununu had to step in and take the reigns.

So now we have Fergus Cullen spinning the moderate, center-left politics of New Age Republican progressivism. Agreeing to democratic tax and spend policies, social policies on guns, crime and birth control. All of which is outside the Republican Party Platform.

The New Hampshire Republican party has been reduced to little more than selecting a candidate with an R next to his name whom they (they, being the establishment) perceive has the best chances to defeat Jeanne Shaheen.  That message rings loud and clear and is tantamount to implying that the only thing that matters today is power.  Principles, Ideals and clear policy are left on the ash heap of ambiguity and are merely window dressing…bait to get the base to support, “their guy.”

Fergus Cullen is a divider….He is an, “us and them” finger-pointer, unappologetically referring to the us as “the establishment” and the them as “right wingers” and “tea partiers.”

Fergus Cullen is a deceiver…He frequently uses the word, “conservative” interchangeably with “establishment” GOP’ers and well-known, well-documented RINO’s or moderates.

Fergus Cullen is a charlatan…The fifth plank in the NH GOP platform states, “We believe that the Founding Fathers gave the 1st Amendment its pre-eminent position with intent that religious freedom deserves to be protected.” Indeed, religious freedom needs to be protected but when Cullen refers to “right wingers” that means evangelical Christians.  The first amendment also deals with free speech…exactly what the protestors were doing outside of the GOP dinner in Nashua…You know, the one that Fergus referred to as a, disappointing presence of some chronically disgruntled activists?

Fergus Cullen is a statist…The final plank in the NHGOP platform states,We believe that our founding fathers placed the 2nd Amendment in a position of prominence with intent; that law-abiding citizens of the United States of America have a right to protect and defend their lives, their families and their property without government infringement.” Yet, Scott Brown stated,

“As a state legislator in Massachusetts, I supported an assault weapons ban thinking other states would follow suit. They have not and innocent people are being killed. As a result, I support a federal weapons ban, perhaps like the legislation we have in Massachusetts…”

Conversely, Scott Brown was endorsed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

So Fergus Cullen can market and package his point of view any way he likes, but lets not let the facts get in the way of viable candidates with all of this nonsense talk about looking for purist candidates. Fact is, many of us went to the polls on election day, held our noses and voted for some of these people. Where do those folks fit into Fergus’ template?

Fergus Cullen is a political reprobate…As evidenced by his Scott Brown/Annie Kuster comparison:

What’s the difference between Scott Brown and Congresswoman Annie Kuster? Brown always paid his New Hampshire property taxes.(Annie has not).

That isn’t much of a contrast between Brown and Kuster and if that is the best you could do, we are in serious trouble.

To juxtapose a few comparisons, In the last election during the gubernatorial debates, Maggie, “the red” Hassan made multiple references to Ovide LaMontagne being part of the “far right, extremist tea party” Republicans… Fergus Cullen, in this opposite editorial alone, uses the terms, “far right, right wing” and, “Tea partiers.” Not the first time Cullen has eschewed his fellow Republicans from his exclusive brand of inclusiveness, either.

Fergus Cullen and “Shrill” Kathy Sullivan have something in common: both are afforded to blather regularly in the Union Leader Opinion Columns;  Both go on the attack of so-called, “Tea Partiers” and, “Right Wingers.”

Fergus Cullen likes to blame the Right Wing and the Tea Partiers for election losses…making the dubious, and now boring claim that those folks stayed home because they could not get their own way. Yet, when the primaries manifest in their season, the track records of each an every politician who abandoned core Republican principles are on full display…records and all…for everyone to judge…Meanwhile, the RINO quietly sneaks by, quiet as a mouse, never forced to articulate with any clarity exactly what his or her position is on the hard questions.

We haven’t had  strong principled Republicans in years on many a ballot, largely because the Establishment brands them as hard right and the folks never really get to hear much from them outside the media filters. So Fergus can just keep on doing what the establishment is doing and things will be pretty much “status quo.” When the Republican establishment loses an election,  they generally haven’t lost when the opposing democrat wins because their so-called moderate progressive principles remain in tact. The bonus here is they get to blame the “extreme right.”

I went carefully through the New Hampshire Republican Platform, All if it, I have no problem supporting. It is not the platform, but the Republicans who get elected and will abandon it, not to piss off Democrats and the unquenchable desire to be liked.

But given Fergus and his cadre I fear it is mere window dressing. I think many Tea Party Patriots and Conservatives regularly support candidates where they might disagree on one of two issues. But lets face it, if we only agree half the time, what is the point? Scott Brown? Jeanne Shaheen? not terribly distinguishable in the end. Less Government, Right to work, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility are the core issues that Fergus Cullen labels as, “right wing” and Tea-party.”

Keep drinking that liberal Kool-Aid, Fergus!

 

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