Beware Chairman Bearing Republican Unity - Granite Grok

Beware Chairman Bearing Republican Unity

NHGOP WoodshedWe got more of that Republican ‘Unity’ the other day. You will recognize it right away. It is the same Republican unity that resulted in a New Hampshire Republican sponsored expansion of ObamaCare in NH. A gas tax. Support for a speech chilling, anti-first amendment bill, an anti-gun rights bill and others.

The unity of which I speak comes from Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Horn.  She showed her true color, Brown, when she publicly tore into Jim Rubens and Bob Smith for not immediately signing a letter of support for whichever of them won the GOP Primary to challenge Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. Horn stated that their refusal suggests they could later choose to support a third party or even Democrat candidate instead of the Republican primary winner.

That’s amusing coming from a state party with a habitual tendency to ignore and even impede the effort of Republican candidates that have not fallen close enough to the NH-GOP ruling class tree.

Calls for NHGOP unity from the establishment leadership are calls to fall in line behind the guy with all the money and the proper connections.  Note, I did not say ‘right’ connections.  In this case, Brown is the new green, and Horn wants everyone to anoint the parties candidate, even if he is the least Republican candidate running.

Candidate Jim Rubens claimed he was waiting for Brown to agree to more debates. Brown has (as of yesterday) agreed to two more-tightly controlled affairs, and Rubens has since signed the letter.

Smith took Horn to the woodshed where she belongs.

Under no circumstances will I endorse the Democrat nominee or a third-party candidate in this race,” he said. “I supported the Republican platform more than 98 percent of the time over an 18 year career in the U.S. House and Senate. I support every plank in the Republican platform. Who else in this race can say that? If you had extended me the courtesy of a private letter and allowed me to answer these questions prior to making your accusations in public, I would have made this known to you.

Horn essentially challenged the guy who, whether you support him or not, is the most Republican candidate still in the primary. She accused him of (potentially) backing a Democrat because he would not sign a letter that might require him to support Scott Brown, who in his last year in the US Senate was a Democrat 62% of the time.

This reality unmasks the establishment’s false flag of unity.   It also sends a clear message to the Democrats.  If you have a candidate with money, and you can run them as a Republican, regardless of parity to party principles, the NHGOP leadership will take the money, support the candidate, and demand that everyone else do the same.  Should you hew to platform or principle before party, to the foundation of a constitution, before the gymnastics of party pandering to the highest bidder, you might receive a scarlet letter, relegated to the “wilderness.”

Chairman Horn might want to  take a moment to look out her gilded window.  It’s getting crowded out here in the “wilderness.”

 

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