Heh! Fredocon*, indeed! Emphasis mine: “…Then there is Chris Sununu, scion of the family that brought us Justice Souter. He’s been a terrific governor of New Hampshire if you define “terrific” as capitulating to everything the left wants.”
He failed to redistrict the state into winnable GOP districts. He digs abortion. He also – like his political doppelganger Hogan’s Hero Sandwich – refused to do something useful and at least try to win us another GOP Senate seat, instead putting self above party so he could entertain his delusion that the GOP might ever nominate him for president. And, of course, he’s down on the dudes who can win. Sununu is really upset with Donald Trump because oh well I never we’re better than that that’s not who we are blah blah blah. He does not like DeSantis because DeSantis fights and wins instead of surrenders and loses, which is what this Maple Syrup Fredo thinks is the GOP’s role. Remember, true conservatism is losing gently.
Sununu is one of those principled Republican who never met an alleged principle that kept us from winning that he didn’t like. He thinks that we are required not to use our power – the power of government via our elected officials – to order our society and culture as we see fit. However, he sees nothing wrong with woke corporations using their power – economic, cultural, and governmental as well – to order our society and culture as they and their ESG/diversity directors see fit. The notion that we are somehow morally obligated to forego the only means we have of protecting our interests while the left and its catspaws can do whatever they please is a bizarre notion that we in the base long ago abandoned. But this guy has not moved on.
In his mind, we are forever compelled to watch conservatism be defeated in the name of conservatism…
So, where is he wrong, Sununu Supporters, outside of financial matters (well, THIS proposed budget is a bit sketchy for me to be saying that) and guns?
And other than here in NH, what poll shows him higher than his vaunted 5% cut-off point? Time’s a tickin’, Guv:
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.”
So, how is that aging? Not well, so, I’m going to hold him to it. How is he doing? Let’s just say the phrase “5%, you got to get out” will haunt him.
*= Brother Fredo from the Godfather movie series where he went against The Family and received his Consequence. I posit that Schlichter has a nice little analogy here – posing that Sununu was part of the Republican Party family but constantly going against “The Family” with his words and actions.
HT | Kurt Schlichter (“The 2024 GOP Primary’s Fredocon Lane“)
