We’ve seen coalitions of locals forming up around the Republican Primary for US Senate. Jeanne-The-debt-Machine-Shaheen is retiring from politics about 18 years too late, and the GOP would like to pick up the seat. Scott Brown, who no right-minded conservative would have trusted previously as anything but another NRC stooge of choice, has become “the guy” they are lining up behind because John E. Sununu likes his chances.
Sununu lost the seat to Shaheen in 2008 and hasn’t poked his nose into that shit spreader since. His only chit is his name. He’s a Sununu. They are one of the five rhetorical political families of New Hampshire, and for reasons many cannot fathom, are viewed by the majority of the undecided and a few too many actual Republicans as good for the Granite State. Even moderate democrats will vote for a Sununu. I wouldn’t call a Sununu anything but better than most Democrats, with the understanding that sometimes that’s the only reason to vote for them. If you object to globalism, the Sununu is a slower train, and maybe there’s time to slow it some more, stop it, or jump off, if things are that bad.
Scott Phillip Brown was a carpet-bagging Massachusetts Republican and the presumed establishment candidate until someone told John Sununu his name could drag him over the finish line against Chris Pappas, and some important people would really like that. His likely progressive opponent is a class A Democrat-socialist meat puppet for globalism. Pappas is like longtime NHCD 1-seat warmer Carol Shea-Porter, but better-looking (they both like men), and I hear his chicken fingers are fabulous.
Brown has some sketchy history on issues important to actual Republicans, but he’s supported Trump since 2016 and has a few other things going for him. His position on the individual right to self-defense has evolved. He’s not named Sununu, and the establishment didn’t trust him enough to win it for them, so they convinced a Sununu, see also establishment, globalist type, to run for the seat.
This is not an endorsement, but if I had to pick between the two today, the guy not named Sununu is preferable, knowing that the Sununu name has a better shot to win the seat come November 2026. Pappas will have gobs of money, and Dems want his powdered ass to warm that seat for thirty years if possible. We need to keep the Dems out of it for the next six years to protect the majority, and Trump’s America First agenda, but the globalist donor class might not give Scott the kind of funding they’d fork over to (insert name) Sununu.
We’ve gotten away from endorsing for a variety of reasons, but we still publish readers’ op-eds supporting or opposing any candidate in a Republican primary. I’ve received and published several in favor of Scott Brown and have not received any supporting John Sununu.
For the record, that’s your fault, not mine. A problem similar to the 2024 Presidential primary, when the Ron DeSantis folks accused GraniteGrok and me of being all in for Trump, even though the only reason was their failure to submit supporting op-eds for DeSantis. I never endorsed anyone, but I did write some favorable op-eds about DeSantis.
I don’t imagine I’ll be writing any of those about Sununu, but if you send them, we’ll share them, right up to the primary. Same for Brown. Tell our readers why and engage them when they respond.
Or don’t.
