It’s intellectually weak, morally bankrupt, and self-delusion. Selling oneself that way
Sidenote: which, tangentially, was the basic theme of Walt Havenstein’s campaign – “I can manage it better”. Perhaps true. But it also shows a complete acceptance of the status quo. Voters across the nation said “not enough” to that, a complete rejection of the Leftist Progressive vision that the Dems brought. Liberty, Freedom, less government, more choices that individuals can and should make their own decisions and not those in Govt usurping that role – that’s what the vote was about this past Tuesday.
is limiting, shallow, and trite. Yesterday on Meet the Press – Chuck Todd was interviewing Scott Walker, the man that beat the Democrats three times in the last four years, in a DEEP BLUE State, to retain his governorship. Here he talks, not about being timid and not making waves (which is the track that the NH GOP Establishment wants in its fervor to “control” the NH Speaker of the House in trying to “lock out” Bill O’Brien; emphasis mine) but in governing by the Republican ideals:
I think in Wisconsin, we are very much like the rest of America. Independent voters which decide elections in swing states like ours want people to lead. They want people to have big bold ideas that then act on them. Four years ago, my state, everything was blue. The Republicans were out of power in the Assembly and the Senate and certainly the governorship right after the Nov second election in 2010, I told our new legislative Republican majority it is “put up or shut up time” meaning that if we are just a little bit less bad than the Democrats were before us, the voters would have every reason to throw us out. Four years later, here we sit not only did I win for the third time but we added to the majorities in the Assembly and the Senate and I think that’s a lesson for our friends in Washington.
Bold colors and bold actions. A lesson not only to be learned but ALSO internalized. NH is far from being a deep blue state – now TWICE in the last three election cycles, the NH voters have shown an unwillingness to be under Democrat rule (and the lessening of individual freedom that demands in that Power MUST be centralized into Concord (and it seems, more than a small number of Establishment and Progressive Republicans as well). Yet, I see that the Republican Establishment wants to return to the “don’t make waves – we’ll lose” mentality that was OH so successful in 2006 and 2008 (e.g., pre-TEA Party same old, same old). Yet, that is what the Establishment Republicans are trying to set in stone over the NH Speaker of the House race (here, here, here, here and here for more and some quick background on the current events that apply). That mentality requires “just a little bit less bad than the Democrats“.
Translation: either the Rs have to LEAD and implement those ideas they say they believe in or NH voters will vote them out again. NH Voters are looking, once again from ALL elected Republican officials, actions and results that will restore and grow Trust.
And not only do that but vigorously and strenuously both defend those actions. The NH GOP has to stop being hypocritical and only attack Democrats (and lately, it has been attacking Democrats for their actions but ALSO for actions started by Republicans (yes, my hobby horse issues of Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion and the gas tax). NO TRUST is built when the NH GOP’s argument is little better than Swiss cheese for the silliness of its logic holes.
It is also Trust dismembering when the voters see that – strengthening the meme that “it is just politics as usual
