I always have answers for WMUR Political Scoop (no matter its inanities)! - Granite Grok

I always have answers for WMUR Political Scoop (no matter its inanities)!

WMURWell, it’s Friday and once again WMUR Political Scoop has questions and lots of softballs were served up.  So I have answers…and in a couple of cases, I question the question or perceived observation:

If you watched Marilinda Garcia, the national Latino rising star, on CNN en Español to check out her Spanish speaking skills… well the station uses an interpreter because she speaks in English.

Isn’t it rascist to think that just because someone has a Spanish derived surname that they should be able to  speak Spanish?  After all, with my surname, I certainly can’t speak Gaelic.  Or, if I went to the maternal side, speak Swedish.  So why does James Pindell keep writing stuff like this – to create the meme of a “faux Latina” in the run-up to the election?  Just to use the “subtlety” [er, of a hammer] showing that Republicans are lacking?  Way to go, dude – create a straw man argument and then set it on fire!

What is the percentage chance the Republican leadership race in December will once again be between Gene Chandler and Bill O’Brien? And what does that say about the party that this would be the same choices as four years ago?

Of course, the flip side would be to say “what would it say about the party”  as the present Repub House Leadership (with Chandler at the helm)  voted cross-wise to the Repub House members?  After all, if no one is following….  Also, what would it say about the party to go back to the days of 2001?  Would it mean that Party only cares about an R after someone’s name?

Jus’ askin’… Next!

Jeff Woodburn: Woodburn already voted for the gas tax and he is going to get hit for that or not no matter what. This week he decided to get ahead of it by launching his first radio ads arguing his vote was good for the North Country. As Bill Clinton says, “it’s better to be strong and wrong than weak and right.”

Right – economic life is hard enough and his erstwhile constituents are going to remember that each and every time they pull into a gas station.  So, will they be reflecting on which political handle to use when they pull that handle out of the pump?

Jeanne Shaheen: The news is significant that Tom Steyer’s pro-environment group will aim to counter all the Koch Brothers ads in the Senate race here, but he probably not to parity.

Gee, another case of “She was against it before she was for it”  – how politically craven driven this is.  Not a mention from Political Scoop of the inane demand of hers that Scott Brown (oh Lordy, must I defend him?  Fair and (un)balanced, I suppose) accept her Peoples’ Pledge even after months of outside money favorable to her rained down on him.  It does show that Shaheen will be beholden to yet one more special interest group – and nothing says “independence” like being wholly owned by a Billionaire, eh?

Gun Owners of New Hampshire: With all the varying gun groups in the state, Brown’s appearance in front of this particular group served as a validator of their role.

I dryly note that Pindell didn’t say WHAT the role was, did he?  He also didn’t dare to opine of what those other gun groups thought of this special role, either.  *I* will however: given that most gun owners aren’t too hep about Scott Brown’s positive assent to an “assault weapon” (that made up political term which means nothing in the real world) – I’m betting that many are thinking about that Q word from back in the middle of the last century…

 

 

 

 

>