“Live free” died long ago, when Massachussetts liberals started flooding in. Same as Virginia with the Washington, DC suburbs. The fact that the NH Republican party thought it was a good idea to run a carpetbagging liberal from MA is all the proof you need. A pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, pro-Romneycare would have become just another northeastern Republican quisling. The GOP has more than enough RINOs thank you very much.
The fact is that there is virtually no organized Republican party in NH, which is amazing given that, in the wave election of 2010 the GOP won over 300 NH house seats and held the State Senate 21-4.
However, the clubbers and congregationalists here want NOTHING to do with they guys in shacks on the side of a mountain flying the Gadsden flag, and nothing to do with people who are so low that they have to work for a paycheck. Most of them don't even know what a W-2 is.
I'm sorry we couldn't drag Brown over the line.