As the progressives in the Granite State consider their losses it is worth noting (at least one more time) that even in the context of a "Wave election" New Hampshire is exceptional.
Despite overwhelming discontent with congress and the liberal agenda a majority of New England chose to put the spoiled milk back in the fridge, content with the flavor and prepared to let it sit a bit longer to see how it "improves."
But not New Hampshire. New Hampshire was the exception.
In a corner of America where co-dependence with government is the prescription of choice, the Granite state rejected it on an epic scale.
The voters on this Granite island took a democrat majority government and turned it into a Republican super-majority, making the historical re-election of democrat John Lynch historical for its inability to stop anything the legislative super majority can agree is in the best interest of the people who elected them.
And what might those interests be?
How about a realigning of the relationship between the governing and the governed, where the state is actually constrained by its own constitution? How about measures designed to restore the state’s relationship to the general government which gets its powers from the states, not the other way around? How about restoring local control to its rightful place with the towns and the people?
It is the restoration of these simple concepts, not just repealing a view tax or cutting a budget (not that we do not have a huge laundry list of such things to repeal or replace), that will protect the people of New Hampshire for generations.
We must use this opportunity to defend the state for ourselves and our posterity, not just from the recent destructive course of government and the capricious urges of Obama’s crumbling national majority, but from future manipulations driven by political vanity or the ambition that foments it.
There is an historic opportunity to define how law will be made in the New Hampshire. One that if properly executed will help that little red island in the sea of blue New England to become an even greater beacon of opportunity and growth for decades to come.
New Hampshire won’t just have an advantage. It will be truly exceptional.
