Kelly Ayotte’s waning years in the US Senate did not heap glory on the Republican Party unless you mean John McCain’s version of it. That is not meant to be flattery. McCain’s ‘final days’ included spreading the debunked Clinton Campaign opposition research to the media to undermine the elected president (which the IG confirmed).
After McCain’s death, a reader wrote and asked, “Why in the hell haven’t you guys posted even ONE story about the passing of the great American hero, John McCain?!?!?!” (Punctation in original.)
Hey, he asked.
I bear no ill will upon the dead nor his family. I pray for his soul, and my heart goes out to his friends and colleagues. People who knew him loved him and will miss him.
But whatever John McCain was in his younger life, his older self worked to destroy the very thing for which we assume he joined the military. That thing for which he is so often remembered.
His thinking it was the right thing to do does not make it so.
I appreciate his service to the country, but I do not appreciate many of the things he tried to do the country after that. I opposed them as a matter of principle, and I still do.
Kelly Ayotte ended up in McCain’s orbit, ruining what started as a promising career in the US Senate. Her first two years were fairly decent. Then it all went downhill. I feel confident she was predisposed to catching the Georgetown flu, which was inevitable (she was not our first choice). Had she stayed, she would have been more like Susan Collins than Rand Paul. And yeah, Collins was a deciding vote on at least one Trump Supreme Court Nominee, but what’s so great about having two of those RINO wildcards in the deck?
DC is filled with Rasputin’s, and spinless and unprincipled RINOs are easily swayed.
I can’t say Ayotte would be any better as governor. She’s the chosen replacement for Sununu, which is a bad sign. She has a lot of history in the Concord swamp as John Lynche’s AG and in the DC swamp on corporate boards. She knows where bodies are buried—she’s one of them, not one of us. I’m not saying she’s not better than any Democrat, but your nose gets sore from having to hold every election.
And I am amused by her campaign tagline about not massing up New Hampshire.
GraniteGrok ran a set of branded gear with an identical sentiment during the 2022 campaign year. There was no ‘Kelly Ayotte’ running for anything in that one. Given how we used the term a few years before she adopted it, I wonder if any of her supporters would be offended by that.
We had T-shirts, coffee mugs, barware, stickers, and even a lady’s tank top.
I discontinued it due to a lack of interest, but Team Ayotte has adopted something similar, and I must admit I agree. Don’t Mass Up New Hampshire. But we’ve all been fighting that fight for a long while, so what exactly does she mean by that?
It is one thing to distance yourself from a set of ideas (an opponent or, in this case, the Bay State), but it is another to promise never to set foot on the same road that got them there. And, if the tagline is genuine, don’t you have to look at where we are after the Sununu era and say we need to reverse these things because they are stepping stones to Massing up New Hampshire?
We’ve got plenty of those, and I do not think Ayotte intends to backtrack on any of them.
Maybe she should change it to “Don’t Mass Up New Hampshire More Than It Is.”
