Kelly Ayotte: “Here to support Thad!” - Granite Grok

Kelly Ayotte: “Here to support Thad!”

McCain - AyotteBig Government reports on US Senators banding together to support, not the best candidate possible, but to keep their collective butts in those high paying seats in the US Senate.  Our very own Jr. US Senator Kelly Ayotte seemingly is on board with this. I guess this means that she’s gone DC – the “business as usual” model appeals with her, just like with Thad Cochran  (back to that “only DC money is important” tweet by John Feehery):

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While Shelby got away before this reporter could ask him why he’s supporting Cochran, he could be overheard telling another fundraiser attendee as he walked out the door: “I told them I delivered my money for him.” It’s unclear what the context of that statement was.

Ayotte similarly got away before this reporter got to her, but another fundraiser attendee mentioned how she had her own campaign event later Tuesday evening, and she shrugged back jokingly with a smile on the NRSC’s front steps: “Here to support Thad!”

Since she has been elected, I have seen multiple accounts describe her as having been a TEA Party candidate – nothing could have been further than the truth (the real TEA Party candidate, Ovide Lamontagne, lost only by about 1600 votes in the primary).  Backed by Papa Smurf and the rest of the NH Establishment Republicans, her voting record has been quite uneven these last four years.  Will she (can she) learn ANYTHING from:

  • Chris McDaniels (a grassroots candidate) beating Thad Cochran and is now leading in the run up to the runoff primary election because of his spending ways? That  he adherence “the business as usual” model may be at risk (C’mon, Kelly, I DO remember all that talk about the DC spending being bad, bad, bad while you campaigned!)
  • The absolute drubbing that the uber-Amnesty proponent in the US House, Eric Cantor, took from David Brat – maybe it is time for a 180 on your current Amnesty stance?

2016 isn’t all that long away. The question is, especially as she has thrown away her campaign promise of NO AMNESTY (is she heading for her own “Frank Guinta moment because of it”?) to one of advocating for it. After all, the NH Base on your side of the aisle hates both ideas – and you haven’t helped yourself by endorsing Scott Brown (really, WHY are you helping someone who brags about voting with Democrats more than Republicans?), telling us that Amnesty is now important for no other reason than you are following the DC crowd.

But helping Cochran that has been in the Senate long enough to really run up the bill and can’t even speak on the issues with any clarity (and acts like Scott Brown in not willing to debate his rival, Chris McDaniel).  Is that REALLY, is he really, the best that America has?

And will this be a campaign slogan in the future as it was now for Cantor:   ‘A vote for Ayotte is a vote for open borders and lower wages.’

 

 

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