This post is about my agreement with a recent tweet from Ryan Terrell, the NHGOP Vice Chair … because (1) that tweet is spot on and (2) that he tweeted it shows that unlike most of the “leaders” of the NHGOP he is NOT suffering from low testosterone. The tweet:
My fellow Republicans & right of center thinkers,
Accept that the other side HATES us & always will
Facts, logic & reason do NOT matter to them
They DESPISE our existence, period
Nothing will EVER change that
We are in the post-persuasion era — accept it & operate as…
— Ryan Terrell for Executive Council District 4 (@ryanterrell603) April 5, 2023
Note that he is NOT saying that there are no persuadable voters. He is saying that in the aggregate Democrats are not persuadable. And he is absolutely correct. People who reflexively call you … or who believe that you are … Nazis, Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Fascists, Putin’s Puppets, Homophobic, Transphobic, et. etc. etc., EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY (sorry, bitter-clingers, but they are saying it indirectly when they say the candidates you vote for are Nazis, etc. etc. etc. and the policies you support are ___phobic, etc. etc. etc.), are obviously NOT going to be swayed by facts, logic or reason.
And … it is sad I have to explain this to some of you … the people who call you Nazis, etc. etc. etc. and call the policies you support authoritarianism, fascism, ___phobic, etc. etc. etc. DO HATE YOU. Are you that in denial, or that lacking in self-esteem, or that pathetic that you actually believe that the people who say AND BELIEVE that Trump is Hitler don’t hate you?
So here is a STUPID reply to Terrell from one of the NHGOP “insiders”:
Terrell is NOT saying New Hampshire elections can be won with “hard republicans” alone. What I take away from his tweet is that he is saying is that every minute a GOP candidate spends trying to reason with, find common ground with, etc. etc. etc. “hard Democrats” is a wasted minute … that every dollar spent trying to win the votes of “hard Democrats” is a dollar wasted. “Hard Democrats” … no matter if they call themselves “Independents” … are NOT persuadable. People who believe that you are Nazis, that democracy only exists when their candidates win, etc. etc. etc. are NOT persuadable. PERIOD.
My view, as I have made clear repeatedly, is that New Hampshire is a lost cause. Terrell obviously disagrees … otherwise he wouldn’t have run for Vice Chair. But unlike so many others in the NHGOP, he at least sees the opposition for what they are … and has the testosterone to call it like he sees it.
Unlike this low-testosterone excuse for a State Representative, Joke Sweeney who responded to Terrell as follows:
Seems the era of persuasion is alive and well when we roll up our sleeves and work in good faith with one another regardless of party label.
Because of that, NH is extremely close to being truly Income Tax free. A huge win for conservatives that can’t be overlooked. #NHPolitics
— Joe Sweeney (@JoeSweeneyNH) April 6, 2023
Dear Joker, the budget the majority GOP House passed represents capitulation, not persuasion. You gave up on expanding Education Freedom Accounts and reduced that budget appropriation by $10 million each year, despite increasing overall spending by nearly$2,000 per person … in order to get Democrat support for cutting interest and dividend taxes for wealthy people. In other words, you screwed working and middle class parents. If that’s a “huge win for conservatives” one shudders to think what a loss would look like.
