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Sununu urges GOP to cut down on ‘distracting rhetoric
The Hill ^ | 08/01/2024 | Miranda Nazzaro

Posted on 08/01/2024 6:25:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) is calling on Republicans to “stop the trash talk” leading up to November, arguing such attacks will do little to shore up support for the GOP ticket.

“As Donald Trump and my fellow Republicans navigate the next steps of their campaigns, my message to them is this: The path to victory in November is not won through character attacks or personal insults,” Sununu wrote Thursday in an op-ed published by The New York Times.

Sununu argued the “catchy one-liners” against Vice President Harris, including labelling her as a “bum,” “not a serious person,” and “bottom of the barrel,” do not connect with the independent voters who could be crucial to the election.

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Which means let the rats step all over you and be nice
1 posted on 08/01/2024 6:25:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s Deep State.

Nuff said.


2 posted on 08/01/2024 6:26:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Much better to “stand up for yourself” and alienate the people you need to win the election, eh?


3 posted on 08/01/2024 6:26:28 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I agree that ad-hominem attacks are not helpful. Attacks based on past performance or contradictory current claims most definitely are.

i.e. it was never good to call Chris Christy fat.


4 posted on 08/01/2024 6:27:18 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

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5 posted on 08/01/2024 6:27:31 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: mewzilla

Yeah. That was not lost on me. It’s why I responded the way I did above. As long as the scope of his complaint is limited to ad-hominem attacks via name calling, I agree with him.


6 posted on 08/01/2024 6:28:23 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes.

It’s always good to be polite with criminals while they are robbing you.

“Here, use my handkerchief to wipe the prints off of your gun.”


7 posted on 08/01/2024 6:28:38 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Racist “distracting rheotic” sure is working for the far left turd rollers and their toads in the far left “media”. U.S. residents are licking that puke up. Not so much being licked up by REAL, natural born Americans.


8 posted on 08/01/2024 6:29:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (My Pronouns are : He Be, She Be, We Be, and HeBeJeebees.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In one sense he is right. The GOP needs a focused message of what a disaster the last four years have been and how Harris has been a part of that. Making jokes makes the converted laugh, but it doesn’t win over moderates who have a negative view of Trump.


9 posted on 08/01/2024 6:30:05 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
That first journalist was absolutely rude. The bottom line...Trump has taken the black candidate off message.....royally.

Are her parents alive?

10 posted on 08/01/2024 6:31:15 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pantywaist wrings his hands! Film at eleven!!


11 posted on 08/01/2024 6:31:23 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s correct. Republicans and Democrats are locked in. They both know who they’ll be voting for already.

It’s the wishy-washy undecided and Independents you have to woo. Someone explain to me how name-calling, rather than detailed policy helps that.


12 posted on 08/01/2024 6:33:10 AM PDT by Hoboto (I blame Hippies.)
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To: blueunicorn6

The point is Trump needs to connect to Independents who are not okay with all the name calling. Sununu is right on this, and we shouldn’t automatically shoot the messenger. It’s going to take every voter Trump can get to win against the Dem cheating, and he shouldn’t alienate the Independents with the name calling, which I see as basically an unforced error.


13 posted on 08/01/2024 6:33:36 AM PDT by Languager
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To: ChicagoConservative27

i hate to say it because he drives me nutz - but i do agree. if you’re going to disparage someone, take the Reagan approach a la “there he goes again” or something that makes the point but doesn’t degrade the speaker and offend part of the population.


14 posted on 08/01/2024 6:37:39 AM PDT by avital2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you want to see the direction of the GOP, look at who WAS NOT at the Convention and WHO DID NOT speak. The sifting continues and soon you will be left with a party and not an appeasement, go along to get along, Uni Party establishment. And that will be a good thing.


15 posted on 08/01/2024 6:38:03 AM PDT by navymom1 (I am voting for President Trump and you should too!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Sununu is a deep state creep that used police to arrest MAGA supporters at one of his meetings.

During the N.H. Executive Council meeting on Oct. 13, 2021, Gov. Chris Sununu seemingly ordered State Police to unlawfully arrest nine citizens who were civilly and peacefully watching the meeting, evidently without cause. He then, acting like a despot, used the opportunity to chastise anti-vaccine-mandate activists after the meeting by calling them “fringe anti-government” types, accusing them of disrupting the meeting, even though there is significant video evidence (see below) proving that his claims are not true.
https://rebuildnh.com/despot-emperor-sununu-oversees-arrests-without-cause/

Sununu decided not to run for governor again because republicans refuse to vote for him.

16 posted on 08/01/2024 6:38:38 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Psyops One is when the Rats use ridicule against us.

Psyops Two is when they have RINO Sununu to chastise us for reciprocating.

Trump gets it. We need to get it.

This is all stale Stalinist stuff but unless you root it out, "freeze it, personalize it", etc., then it is still potent.

Point it out and use it against them.

"Use their own rules against them."

We must neutralize all this Maoist Stalinist stuff by pointing it out and reciprocating, lest it remain potent.

Have you ever wondered why you can still call pointing out communism "McCarthyism" and it still makes people afraid of what they said?

17 posted on 08/01/2024 6:38:43 AM PDT by caddie
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To: Languager

I am concerned about your concern.

Please tell me how you came to be a conservative so that I can best respond to you.


18 posted on 08/01/2024 6:38:55 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Always a one-way street.


19 posted on 08/01/2024 6:40:24 AM PDT by silent_jonny ("it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening." ~ President Trump 7-14-24)
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To: avital2

Just pound them on the issues the hypocrisy, the radicalism, the extremism grocery store prices gasoline prices defund the police plenty plenty of material there without taking the low road stop the damn namecalling. it’s childish and doesn’t work with the people Trump needs to convince.


20 posted on 08/01/2024 6:41:17 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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