"...a litany of Democrat sponsored bills...that never would have passed if it hadn't been for me..." - Granite Grok

“…a litany of Democrat sponsored bills…that never would have passed if it hadn’t been for me…”

Like Dodd-Frank.

This backs up what I wrote here (H/T: You know who you are).  BTW, the info that is coming our way are NOT from “Democrat trackers” or even folks that are connected with other US Senate (or otherwise) Republican campaigns.  You know, sometimes bloggers are looked up as “the enemies”.  The truth is, something has to get our dander up for us to write about something or someone – something that violates our sense of cultural or political right-and-wrong.  Or in the case of Scott Brown, not saying much at all – he and his staff (that would be Andy Leach) might just listen a bit to our free advice and that of Grok friend DaTechGuy, a Republican that has to live the agony of being a Conservative in MA but takes interest in NH politics (emphasis mine, reformatted):

…Last week Senator Brown took my advice appearing in Hollis NH at the home of Granite Grok’s Mike Rogers with his lovely wife Gail to meet with a group of voters and make the case for him as the next Senator GOP senator from NHMike regularly hosts candidates so people can meet and engage them and I’m often there to cover them. I missed this one but I commend Senator Brown for making the trip, but after reading the accounts of the event from Skip & Mike it seems that in giving said advice I left out an important point, something that is inherent to NH GOP politics that doesn’t come into play very often in Massachusetts.

In Massachusetts the GOP is so weak that conservatives are simply delighted to have a candidate contest a democrat in office. Furthermore Massachusetts is so left you have to go back to Henry Cabot Lodge in the 50?s to find a Massachusetts senator who occupied the seat Senator Brown did who was more conservative than he.

In other words in Massachusetts showing up, caucusing with the GOP and perhaps throwing them a vote now & then is enough to prove your GOP bonafides.

In NH it’s a different matter…

…Moreover if Senator Brown didn’t want to make a pitch for has candidacy based on deep held positions & principles for fear of trackers, he could have instead make the case for his candidacy pragmatically, to wit:

And then he goes on to list six points, that from his perspective, might have salvaged a weak outing:

Can someone explain why it it is left to a blogger who has endorsed Karen Testerman for the NH GOP Senate nomination to make this case when Senator Brown could have done the same in a house full of potential voters, contributors and campaign workers?

Maybe he figures an argument is not necessary. he’s a very pleasant man, with a good record in the Military, a nice family and a wife that is an incredible asset for a campaign. Combine that with the with money, name recognition and a divided GOP primary vote and I suspect expensive consultants who are chasing his big campaign chest might have advised him getting the nomination in an open primary state like NH is a fait accompli.

But what those consultants don’t seem to understand is even if they are right about the primary, it’s only half the battle. If he wins Senator Brown will need as many of those tea party conservatives as he can get come election day because the MSM is going to pull out all the stops to keep that NH seat a seat they figured on holding.

New Hampshire is not Massachusetts. and the Charles Durning dance simply won’t fly there.

Stand on the merits of your arguments or sit down.  Be honest with us, say what you believe, and then do what you say.  If people don’t flock to you, so be it.  And I would highly suggest is that the worst thing you can do is to present yourself as something that you AREN’T.  Very few people can “act the lies” in the long term – you will be found out one way or another.

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