There’s a US Senate race in NH and, well, given that I only have two (perhaps) viable choices right now, I know who’d I pick —Sorry, Chuck, not you.
Oh, you’re a nice enough man but severely challenged on the charisma scale. It’s worked in your District but to wider audiences? I’ve heard you speak – standard history professor monotone. Better than Ambien – and costs less, too. You’re good at your one or two topics – taxes and, Ummm, fell asleep and can’t remember the second. Taxes are good – lowering them is better, and on that, you’ve been “berry, berry good to me.” That’s great – and I appreciate it all.
But where have you been in the Culture Wars in which the Left is changing the matrix of politics out from underneath you? Talk about taxes are good, doing is better, but it’s no longer sufficient as peoples’ attentions have switched to other, more pressing topics. Like Education where Parents are ill-served by their school boards and Education staff are in outright revolt against Parents (who pay the taxes that pay their salaries). Not a peep have I heard from you. How about abortion? How about masking, how about vaccines, how about letting Biden determine who our healthcare workers can be – and can’t?
Lots of silence. Lots of silence on these and other “culture issues” for a long, long time. And ramping it up and start yammering now about them shows it for what it would be – pandering for votes.
Sorry, you’ll have to go a LONG way for me to change my mind. Not even your vaunted ability to raise lots of campaign money can sway me (and given the prodigious amounts you can raise at almost the drop of a hat is, well to be truthful, amazing). But insufficient. You see:
Winning is only a precursor; it’s what you do AFTERWARDS is most important.
Can you win? Certainly possible. What will you do AFTERWARDS? I have my doubts.
Frankly, at this point in the game, I’d be voting, hands down for the General before I’d mark the circle for Chuck. I keep missing Bolduc’s events and not getting the chance to see the improvement over the last cycle but I’m told it’s there. While he’s still learning both the lingo and the issues, it’s clear that he’s not a one-horse kind of guy (I do wonder how many he wore out in Afghanistan riding all those suitcases of money all over the place – adapting warfare to the terms of the locals instead of the “same old, same old” techniques.
Which is my concern with Morse. In the time of listening and watching, it has been a one-trick pony schtick. Important – but insufficient for today’s Culture War environment. I believe that he’d ignore all of that, like most Establishment Republicans because they don’t believe they have to “lower themselves” to get involved.
The General has already done his time “riding in the muck and mud”; doing it again in the political /culture battle. if he has the right advisors riding with him in his posse, would be rather easy. And he wouldn’t be beholden to the “back smoke-filled room of NH Republican ‘we choose Morse for you'” crowd.
And where are the others? Still hiding behind Political Rocks?
After all, no one on the Left is carrying, are they?
