Ayotte is going to be a one-termer just like Scotty Brown. What a severe disappointment to see first termers elected by the grassroots sell out so damn quickly.
Political operators skilled in, and specializing in, "turning people around" on a particular issue to destroy their cred has been a staple of politics since before Cicero. Cicero was "worked over" and effectively neutralized by Julius Caesar's Mephistophilis and "advance man", the Gaditane millionaire and political financier L. Cornelius Balbus [think George Soros], during the touchy-feely diplomacy that filled the lacuna between Caesar's march on Rome and the outbreak of open warfare.
“Ayotte is going to be a one-termer just like Scotty Brown. What a severe disappointment to see first termers elected by the grassroots sell out so damn quickly.”
Yeah, replace her with a democrat. Brilliant.
I’m sorry F R I voted for this @$%#^^&^.
Brown was clearly a moderate from the beginning, anyone who thought otherwise was fooling themselves, and he lost only because of Obama coattails.
Ayotte though was a mystery (ala another famous New Hampshireite, David Souter), pre-election everyone had a different opinion, everything from “very conservative” to “Susan Collins”. I’d say she ranks about a “Judd Gregg” at this point. Not great but better than someone like Brown (or certainly Collins, the worst, most liberal Republican in Congress). She’s more like Coats or McConnell, not liberal but establishment. Coats is an establishment old bull, it’s shame he was nominated in 2010 because the conservative vote was divided. He must keep quiet cause I never hear him criticized.
I’m not a fan of many Palin endorsments but she was not wrong to back Ayotte in 2010. Her main primary opponent, Ovide Lamontagne, is a loser who probably would have lost to the rat Hodes. He was nominated for Governor in 2012 and badly lost a race a he should have won. Given that Ayotte was not clearly any kind of RINO (those who said she was at the time offered no proof) she was the easy pick over the loser Lamontagne. He may be a swell guy but as evidenced by his 2 blowout defeats for Governor in 1996 and 2012, he ain’t ever gonna win high office.
I’m not happy to hear of Ron Johnson of WI being in on this with Ayotte and Coats.