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Walt Havenstein – another NHGOP ‘Made Man’

NH-GOP_logoI wrote this in comments under Kimberly’s video/post where the NHGOP’s establishment pick for Governor, Walt Havenstein, is singing to the “Establishment Choir.” Having long ago pegged him as the old-rich-white-guy inside solution the NHGOP has been waiting for, hearing Walt heap disdain on the base does not surprise me at all.

Pegged him as the ‘Made man’ the minute they hinted at a run. And for the record, the NHGOP’s problem is not the base. It is their influence addiction.

Don’t give me this crap about dividing the party and ignoring calls of unity. As I’ve written before, we are unified under the principles in the platform. But whenever a candidate comes up that is also united by the principles of the platform who may not be one of the GOP’s ‘Made men/women’ they find someone to primary that candidate even if they have more baggage than Lindsey Lohan.

The HNGOP is more interested in backing an insider and losing to Democrats than winning with someone they are not convinced they can control. If they can’t get an insider they are just happy to lose to ‘save the seat’ for their guy next time around.

And “their guy’ is never a principle over party guy, so those lines draw themselves.

As Kimberly point out, this rule applies to Brown, Jerry Little, Walt Havenstein, and the inside protectionism of the Stiles and Boutin’s raggedly orbiting a party platform the have happily sacrificed in the name of a bipartisanism that always gives in the demands of the Liberals.

Compromise is a virtue, but when you are the one who always has to compromise it is called something else. Retreat.

 

Note: in the original comment I wrought ‘bought man’ which applies to the bought his way in philosophy we also see, but I meant ‘made mad’ as in man of the family, so I changed it here.

Note 2:  Walt is, buy all accounts still a nice guy.  There is no connotation to violenve or ciminal behaviour inferred or intended in my use of the term ‘made man.’

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