It’s one thing to be popular in a single role. It’s quite the other for a different role for which there are far more qualified candidates competing against you. He’ll have to remember these lines that Chris Sununu gave to the Washington Times (emphasis mine):
Mr. Sununu also warned minor candidates not to carve up the field.
“I think there’s a lot of hope and opportunity for good candidates to get in, drive the message where it needs to be,” he said. “But the discipline is getting out, too. The discipline and saying, ‘Look, you’re only polling at 5%, you got to get out.’ We don’t want a crowded field here.”
We should ALL hold you to your words – it’s called accountability and living up to your word. I’m betting that this result, like all online polls of a pre-selected audience at NH Journal (and yes, we “suffer” from the same issue when we do ours). Did ANYONE expect that, in his home State and among New Hampshire Journals readership, Sununu WOULDN’T be at least #3? After all, he’s been Guv for the last half-decade. Yet, the guy he’s bashing the most, Trump, is still beating him, while Ron DeSantis holds a 2-1 lead over Sununu:
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I had a link to a recent poll that had Sununu at only 4%, but I think it’s on my main laptop that’s in the shop, and I can’t find it. Even still, Emerson College polling has “Someone Else” at only 4% – below his own pre-set limit:
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And it will be clear that Sununu will NOT be The Guy appealing to the national GOP base that generally skews Conservative. Remember, he isn’t a “social moderate” – Sununu is quite Left of Center when it comes to Social Issues to the point that he’s really part of the Democrat Party. After all, he helped ignite the Culture War in NH’s Education battlefield by signing SB263, that created yet ANOTHER protected class of “gender identity”. What Conservative Republican would do that??? None – yet, he’s calling himself a Conservative to the national electorate and cloaking himself in “Live Free or Die.”
He’s Pro-Choice and fought against the bill that created a 24-week limitation. And someone else has picked up on this (H/T: Instapundit):
I guess, for as many times as GraniteGrok has put up Andrew Breitbart’s warning of “Politics is downstream for Culture”, Sununu doesn’t get that unless the Right FIGHTS the Culture Wars started by the Left, there will be nothing left to have Republican politics on. And we’re back to that he IS involved in the Culture War – on the Left’s side.
While he’s decent when it comes to taxation, spending, and Second Amendment, he’s looking the other way in that Government has been weaponsized and is participating in the Culture War on the side of the Left. And he just doesn’t care a whit. And DCE over at Weekend Pundit, while a bit less blunt, agrees:
When I heard the governor of my state is considering a run for president in 2024, my first thought was “Oh no!”
My second thought was “Oh HELL no!!”
Mind you, I have no dislike for Chris Sununu. He’s been a decent governor, but there are a lot of things he should have been addressing in New Hampshire that he’s been wishy-washy about, particularly things like CRT/DEI ‘indoctrination’, or refusing to tell the “Abortion No Matter What” pro-choice extremists to step off (though he did sign legislation banning on-demand third trimester abortions despite being pro-choice himself).
Another person seeing that the “Conservative” has not earned the title.
So now folks are jumping into the 2024 Presidential Campaign.
Oh, and another thing: His Excellency Sununu also decided a couple of years ago to bring NY Housing Development (stemming from Obama’s Federal takeover of local zoning) to NH by rigging the law (and a “Developers Court”!) to favor developers over the locals in the small NH communities that are the bulwark of the State. NY Gov Hochul is now doing the same thing in advancing Obama’s zoning takeover:
Hochul wants to give the state bold new authority to override local zoning laws in cases where municipalities resist the measure, which she hopes will help address a housing shortage that’s made New York one of the least affordable places in the country. Her push, while favored by housing advocates, is not likely to make her many friends in the areas that proved to be challenging territory for Democrats last November and will likely be again in 2024.
“You would see a suburban uprising, the likes of which you’ve never seen before, if the state tried to impose land-use regulations on communities that have had local control for over a 100 years,” Bruce Blakeman, the Republican county executive in Nassau County, said in an interview.
And Sununu is doing it from the Republican side – WHY does he think that Republicans are for this (other than those supported by the Developers and his sycophants)? She alienated her Democrat base – will he do the same against the Republican ones?
Voters on Long Island and in much of the Hudson Valley went overwhelmingly for Republicans in the midterms, putting Rep. Lee Zeldin within striking distance of the Democratic governor and losing her party multiple seats in the House.
Her plan would compel every municipality to grow their housing stock and require those downstate to allow more housing near rail stations, contributing to her goal of reaching 800,000 new homes over the next decade. Similar efforts have been tried in other states, including Massachusetts and California, to varying results, while pitting bucolic suburbs against the needs of pricey metro areas.
…“There’s a lot of resentment when the state or a regional entity tries to come in and tell people how they should make their communities. It’s not a winning strategy,” said Laura Curran, the former Democratic Nassau County executive who was defeated by Blakeman in 2021.
Let him lose.
With this, he’s fostered the idea that people aren’t Free Citizens but simply cogs in the machine that is NH’s economy. Do you want another “Obama Housing King”?
