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Penny in Greensburg IN

All we ever heard when Bush was in the White House was the cost of Iraq and the daily body count. There was nothing hidden about that.

Didn't Mr Obama promise to get us out of Iraq by August 2010. With August around the corner why are we are still there?

So light up that big pipe and start puffing that away.
- Chris, Merrimack

@Cecilia, Manchester: Spot on. Palin is like the most gimmicky infomercial you can find on television at 3am. Yes, we know you can't shed 100lbs/month. Yes, we know you're not going to find a simple, "secret" formula for making $50,000/month. But when people are desperate, they'll convince themselves it's real and fall sucker for the scam anyway, despite a mountain of evidence that they shouldn't.
- Timothy Healy, Manchester, NH

Dave from Waikola, A President puts his budget forth and Congress can do what they want with it. Bush NEVER included any of his wars (who does that?) in his budget. We can see what President Obama's deficit percentage is when he is done being president. It ain't over till it's over.

Also just a note on Palin. When she gave her big speech at California State University last month she only allowed in Fox news to film and record it. Well whoops someone forgot to shut off the mike and after she left you can hear the Fox news reporters talking. What did they say?
* "Oh my God, I feel like I just stepped off a rollercoaster."
* "She didn’t finish a statement."
* "Did she make a statement?"
* "...the dumbness doesn't come through in sound bytes."
* "I don’t know how you’re gonna make a story out of that." "Well, that’s the story."
* "Lots of Reagan."
* "When you’ve got to write a report as a college student and you just try to jam as many quotes in as possible, you know, from as many random ...., that's what I got."

Another gaff that she made was she claimed that Reagan had graduated from Eureka College in California when he graduated from Eureka College in Illinois.
This woman, Palin, had plenty of time to prep for this speech as she was supposedly paid 75,000.00 to give this speech and she rambled and rambled and said nothing. Of course we all know she can't finish a sentence and just repeats sound bites and could stay home to raise her five kids but she doesn't. I wonder who does? Oh yeah but this is the republican's savior? Love the way they love dumb people:)
- Cecilia, Manchester

Dear John from Manchester, Get real please! Do you think women wanted to go back to work? Maybe some did but the reality is, is that in the early 70's with the economy the way it was, women had to go to work. So please take some of the blame. I tried staying home to raise my kids and I wanted to very badly but after the electricity was shut off I went back to work because I HAD too and that is and was the reality for many women!!!!
- Joanne, Manchester

@Chris: What happens when you pay for a war keep it out of the budget? You get Bushs' deficit. What happens when Obama responsibly puts the cost of the Iraq War in the budget? You get the real, unhidden-outside-of-budget deficit.

Put that in YOUR pipe and smoke it!
- Penny, greensburg, IN

Of course Penny you know presidents don't make budgets or approve the spending of them. That job falls on the congress. But seeing how this president works maybe he has taken those powers for himself like our very own Hugo Chavez.
- Patriot, Salem

@Chris: What happens when you pay for a war keep it out of the budget? You get Bushs' deficit. What happens when Obama responsibly puts the cost of the Iraq War in the budget? You get the real, unhidden-outside-of-budget deficit.

Put that in YOUR pipe and smoke it!
- Penny, greensburg, IN

Ernst writes:
“Also your comment, she knows nothing about your state, listen Sir, it does not take a rocket scientist and an eternity to find out what makes a place and people tick. All you need to have is a little power of observation...”

Your comment is beyond ironic considering Sarah Palin thought she was in the Great Northwest during a rally in your state. So I wouldn’t say Sarah’s knack for observation is all that good.

The following isn’t verbatim but it’s basically what Sarah said (you can hear exactly what she said on Youtube).

"In this great northwest of New Hampshire...you just get it."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1hN6DFQyDs
- Shelby Jeffries, Auburn

what kind of a country do we live in when mediocrity gets to tell people what to do? how has she earned to right to speak for people other than getting chosen to look pretty next to mccain.
she quit her job, made money on books she didn't write, and goes around drama queening around the nation with no greater understanding of issues than when she started. perfect example of how ideology can be harmful to intellectual growth...
- aa, aa

Patriot in Salem

I share your disdain as well as many Republicans for Lindsey Graham, but the Republican Party cannot just throw him out anymore they can any Republican voter. A GOP organization can only deny funding and other resources to that candidate. In NH you are a Republican or a Democrat if you register to vote as such. That is your qualification period.
They are many people who are outraged at Lindsey Graham right now. Unfortunately he is not up for re election until 2014. It will be up to the voters of SC to throw him out of office then.
- Chris, Merrimack

What an embarrassment for the Ayotte campaign. Thank God NH people aren't anything like Alaskan people. We certainly would never elect a wingnut like Palin.
- Greg Barrett, Manchester

Kudos to Mr. McQuaid for calling bunk on Sarah Palin's endorsement of Kelly Ayotte. Palin is simply endorsing candidates in early 2012 primary states that she sees as most likely to give her an endorsement later on if she ultimately decides to capitalize on her pseudo-political celebrity and run for President. That in and of itself should be a signal to voters to not vote for whomever Palin "endorses". Palin is a fraud, through and through. Nevermind how obviously phony she is... I can't get over how she actually has any following at all after quitting on her state, clearly in order to capitalize on the celebrity vacuum that was created for her after the presidential campaign. But then again, there are many out there who simply see what they want to see when they're desperate.
- Timothy Healy, Manchester, NH

Any conservative with the money can hire Sarah Palin to endorse their candidacy.
- Diane, Keene

I think that anyone from NEW Hampshire are really not part of the USA, They seem like in another world or country.

Same for Vermont
- Barry McDonough, PLainsboro

Snow White leads The Seven Dwarfs........

The GOP will soon be known as the Party of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs with Sarah "Snow White" Palin leading such GOP Dwarfs as Huckabee, Gingrich, Pawlenty, Thune, DeMint, Romney and Ron Paul. When Snow White leads, The Seven Dwarfs follow.
- ymchoo, singapore

@ Bob Jean in Northwood - Gee, just think of all the deserted kids of the members of congress. You must be heartbroken at the thought of so many motherless and fatherless kiddies who are being so badly deprived of nurturing. Perhaps only seniors with no kids and no grandchildren should be allowed to run, huh?
- Brian, Farmington

I like what Sarah Palin stands for: low taxes, limited government, and government officials who hold themselves responsible for carrying out these objectives while preserving & protecting the Constitution. That said, I'm not sure that she is Presidential timber, but I am sure that that is what makes her popular with the Tea Party movement.

Here's a news flash: Kelly Ayotte was; and probably will; win her party's nomination for Senate this year with--or without--Sarah Palin's endorsement.

The question NH voters need to ask themselves is: Who would they rather have representing them in the US Senate? Jeanne Shaheen and her husband's law partner Paul Hodes--or Kelly Ayotte?? Kelly by a country mile!
- Paul Sylvia, Sunapee

The GOP.... finally putting women back in their place. Bob Jean thinks it was a long time coming.
- Steve B, Derry

Seeing how the RNC allows Lindsey Graham to call himself a Republican I'll vote for any Republican they don't endorse these days. As for Miss Palin I'm still trying to figure out if I trust her or if she was intentionally placed in the media spotlight to manipulate the people and do more dividing.
- Patriot, Salem

Seems like lots of good old-fashioned conservative men are still living by the motto: "Iron my shirt!".
- Steve B, Derry

"You know, usually these comments are just dumb, but today's batch, particularly those written by Mr. Jean are outright insulting to all working mothers."

Really? Okay, then here's some real insult. Tell me something, is this country better off now, with mothers delegating the rearing of their children to public schools and private day care, than it was 2 generations ago when women raised the children and men paid the bills?

If women want to work, so be it. But they should also be honest and admit that they are choosing their own careers over the raising of their children. This is the biggest change over the last 50 years...women in the workplace. And in that time America has fallen apart morally.

So, ladies, work. Have a career. But recognize that it is often a selfish move.
- John, Manchester

I enjoy reading your liberal comments. You people and your so-called reporters are so transparent, I laugh my head of when I read them. I know nothing about the writers of these comments, so how do I know they are liberals? Any comment that has a personal attack on the person they hate, dislike or just disagree with, must be destroyed by any means and that shows clear as a bell in your comments. There is rarely a personal attack in a comment written by a conservative, even if the targets are Barney F. and the Senator from Connecticut C. Dodd who are the prime perpetrators of the financial disaster, heartache and destruction of lives felt by millions of people. Yet you people are quiet on that. No, you get on the offensive and want to destroy Sarah Palin, what has she done to you? Mr McQuaid, how do you know S. Palin knows little or nothing about K. Ayotte but endorsed her anyway? Did she tell you? Also your comment, she knows nothing about your state, listen Sir, it does not take a rocket scientist and an eternity to find out what makes a place and people tick. All you need to have is a little power of observation and that I am sorry to say is not a trademark of the press today.
Oh yes, one more thing. All you sophisticated, liberal people never make a mistake, never misspell, never get a fact wrong while public speaking etc, etc., no you are perfect, congratulations! Has it ever occurred to you that S.P. might use sarcasm, satire or even some comedy to get your dander up? If you get over your automatic hatred because some politician, union boss or aunt Nelly in 1946 told you so, you will find conservatives of all stripes are mostly nice and funny and giving people, even Sarah Palin. All we want is to be left alone by the federal government. The Constitution spells out what the federal governments duties are and which are not. Follow that and we are satisfied. If you want to add more duties create an amendment and add that to the constitution but not by arbitrary order or fiat like the health-care thing, take over of the auto industry, banking and insurance industry etc.
Also, the job done by any 5 government workers actually can be done by 3 live ones and that automatically makes government smaller. Why is that so hard to understand for a liberal, please tell me.
- Ernst, Parma, Ohio

Pathetic, Joe. Sorry I wasted my time reading this...but since I did, here in New Hampshire, we're not gonna NOT like a candidate just because you said we're not gonna like a candidate because a mama grizzly endorsed her...or some drivel like that...
- Rachel, Exeter

Mr. McQuaid,

Your column is based on an assumption that for many people is quite false: A Palin endorsement is a positive thing. I know that I'm alone when I say that McCain was out the running for me in '08 as soon as I knew who Palin was.
- Dave, Manchester

To Bill Martin, Bedford:
If you think the next presidential election is in 2010, maybe you are unqualified to vote, lol!
- Mike Bodruk, manchester

To answer Angelo, Manchester, NH

Yes, Sarah Palin has endorsed men over women, if the man was the real deal.

She endorsed Texas Governor Rick Perry over Kay Bailout Hutchison, who was endorsed by Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and the entire Bush family.

There were actually two women in that race, besides KBH, there was Debra Medina, who one could charitably call a "Ron Paul" type of candidate. (insane)

Perry won in a landslide.

A Sarah Palin endorsement is pretty much a guarantee of a win for the endorsee.

Remember, no one, even in South Carolina had ever heard of Nikki Haley. She was dead last in a big field of GOP hopefuls. She won in a landslide, and will be the next Governor.

Same thing happened in Georgia last night. Like Nikki, there will be a run-off, but Handel will win, and be Georgia's next Governor.

Her opponent was endorsed by Newt Gingrich. Georgia is his home state.

As far as this article .... to the author .... Hate much?
- Gary, Temple

lol ... pretty funny :)
- Kevin Cassidy, Londonderry

Jenni Rose from Seabrook – Oh please, Kelly Ayotte the victim? Being a present parent is dumb? Oh please. No, her children will be victims.

Working mothers - no, working parents - in New Hampshire are going to get their say. And no, most working parents in NH would not voluntarily leave their toddlers all week, every week, for at least six years, even for a US Senate seat, if she does decide to keep that commitment. Most NH parents strive to be present parents. And that NH family value deserves to be represented in the US Senate by people who walk the talk.

Kelly Ayotte chose to become a parent at this time in her career. She assumed that responsibility and commitment and she has toddlers in the nurturing years. A truly selfless act would be to plan her career and family life around their needs. She’s merely an opportunist. Worse, she’s an opportunist that has demonstrated a lack of responsibility to any of her recent commitments if it gets in the way of any career opportunity, her babies are just the most obvious. What about the victims of the FRM scandal? What about her commitment to serve her full term at the AG’s office? There’s a list. A long list. This short list is for the primary. The longer list will be for the general if that’s necessary.

How on earth can we expect Kelly Ayotte to meet her purported fiscal responsibility commitment with her dismal recent record of keeping her commitments?

It’s time Kelly Ayotte demonstrate she can become responsible to her commitments.

Being a present parent would be a great start.
- Bob Jean, Northwood, NH

It seems your liberals hate Palin with the same intensity that liberals in other locales do, and your conservatives like her with the same intensity as other conservatives in other locales.

That Mr. McQuaid comments on Palin at all is a sign of her power at the location of McQuaid's pen, which, if I get the location right, is somewhere in New Hampshire, right?
- unclesmrgol, culver city, ca

Cecilia

I don’t know where you get your numbers, you certainly didn’t site them in your post.

According to the Huffington Post(hardly a conservative site) President Obama inherited a $482 billion budget deficit. In FY 2009 the first year Obama budget the budget deficit was 1.42 trillion according to the Wall Street Journal. So if we divide 1.42 trillion by 482 billion we get 2.95. So Obama’s first year budget deficit is 2.95 times bigger than Bush’s when he left office. So if I may I will use your 89% number for George W Bush where ever that came from and multiply it by 2.95. 89% x 2.95 = 262.55 % or rounded to the nearest whole number is 263%.

Barack Obama in his first year in office
263%.


Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
- Chris, Merrimack

I'm quite sure Mr. McQuaid was never going to support Ms Ayotte and that decision was made long before Palin made her endorsement.

Just a lot of huffing and puffing by NHUL that impresses no one.
- Jim Wilke, Anchorage, Alaska

- Cecilia, Manchester

deficit spending is not the same as spending, its just means spending past your passed budget.
Also Presidents don't pass budgets, Congress passes them.
Third, funny that you totally ignore this Congress and President's spending habits
- dave, Waikola

I've seen you're reps in action. If you like your socialism and what Obama is doing keep the blinders on folks. I'd suggest you leave the strawman attacks and lies about Sarah to the Alinsky hacks and take a look at Ayotte. She will be your Senator, not Sarah.
- Dave Ketch, Anchorage, Alaska

Voting or not voting for someone because of an endorsement is about as simple minded as you can get. That's as bad as eating a certain cereal because some schmuck endorses it on TV. Little kids fall for that sort of stuff. Mature adults do not.
- Brian, Farmington

Has Sarah Palin ever endorsed any male Republican over a female Republican when they were in the same race?
- Angelo, Manchester, NH

You know, usually these comments are just dumb, but today's batch, particularly those written by Mr. Jean are outright insulting to all working mothers.

Kelly has a loving and supportive husband who is perfectly capable of taking care of the kids, as well as a strong support of her family in Nashua.

It would be a lot more disruptive for Kelly to make her kids leave their home, family, friends, schools, etc and move to DC. Since she's already stated that she has no intention of becoming a career politician, it would be worse to make her kids move to DC only to make them move back to NH. Personally, as a mother, I think it's a selfless act on her part to disrupt their lives as little as possible! I'm sure she would rather they be with her so she could see them more, but she is putting their needs first.

This is a double standard that should not still exist in 2010. Nobody is saying that Sean Mahoney, Rich Ashooh or Frank Guinta are "abandoning" kids!
- Jenni Rose, Seabrook, NH

You know, usually these comments are just dumb, but today's batch, particularly those written by Mr. Jean are outright insulting to all working mothers.

Kelly has a loving and supportive husband who is perfectly capable of taking care of the kids, as well as a strong support of her family in Nashua.

It would be a lot more disruptive for Kelly to make her kids leave their home, family, friends, schools, etc and move to DC. Since she's already stated that she has no intention of becoming a career politician, it would be worse to make her kids move to DC only to make them move back to NH. Personally, as a mother, I think it's a selfless act on her part to disrupt their lives as little as possible! I'm sure she would rather they be with her so she could see them more, but she is putting their needs first.

This is a double standard that should not still exist in 2010. Nobody is saying that Sean Mahoney, Rich Ashooh or Frank Guinta are "abandoning" kids!
- Jenni Rose, Seabrook, NH

I'm surprised Kelly would accept this endorsement from Palin. Palin seems to knock the democrats and not call them conservatives but that the republicans are. Reality I suppose it a real kick in the head but the facts are the facts. Here is a list of the statistics going back to Jimmy Carter on their deficit numbers.
Carter - 42% deficit
Reagan - 189 % deficit
Bush Sr. - 55 % deficit
Clinton - 36% deficit
Bush Jr. - 89% deficit

Note going back 35 years that the democrat presidents had the lowest deficits left when their terms were finished (36% & 42%).
So please tell me who the true conservatives are. Don't tell me about President Obama. We will have to be fair and see what his numbers are at the end of his term. But going from the example I cited above I'm sure he'll fall in right behind Carter and Clinton.
Palin is a phoney baloney just like Rush, Beck, Hannity, Fox etc.
- Cecilia, Manchester

If we stopped commenting on every stupid thing Palin says or does, do you think she'll go away? The fact that anyone takes her seriously blows my mind. Ignorance married arrogance and named the child Sarah. Maybe if I went to five different colleges for my Bachelor degree, I could forget actual words during public speeches, make up new ones, and claim I'm Shakespeare. Can you imagine playing Scrabble with her? She'd always win!
- Aaron, Deering

Sorry Kelly, I can,t vote for someone who is endorsed by a piece of cr## like sarah palin, all she cares about is her 15min of fame, her unmarried 17 year old daughter get,s pregnant and ends up with her own tv show the whole family is out for a buck,she calls herself a great leader!heck she can,t even lead as a mother,
- Richard Davis, Manchester N.H.

To Tom Knott-"Michael King of Epping. Kelly Ayotte does in fact support the Carlisle Doctrine."

The facts are that she blocked the expansion of the Castle Doctrine twice in NH......which means she sided with law enforcement rather than our rights as citizens.

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Panel+urged+to+reject+expanded+deadly+force&articleId=2dbc72a0-547e-4804-8837-f4ab7ab9e213
- Mattruns, Goffstown

Correction. I should have written that Kelly Ayotte supports the CASTLE doctrine
- Tom Knott, Amherst

To Michael King of Epping. Kelly Ayotte does in fact support the Carlisle Doctrine.
- Tom Knott, Amherst

I agree with Michael Laylon. Good points.
- Hughan, Manchester

Ayotte just lost our family's votes. Anyone endorsed or associated with Palin raises a black flag for us
- Jake, Manchester

Spike - Kelly Ayotte has a right to run for the Senate. And we have a right to decide if her view of family values is what we want represented in the US Senate. No Cheap Shot. This is a real issue, and it is not going to go away. If it is not aired in the primary it will be aired in the general election.

Kelly Ayotte is going to leave her very young children and family every week, all week.

I never said "bad mother". But when you thought about that scenerio you said it. When I have described how she plans to do this many others say the same thing.

As Attorney General, dealing with criminals who were the product of broken homes and absentee parents, you would think she had developed a keener sense of the importance of present parents.

She doesn't have to leave her family behind. She could bring her family. She could have stayed with them in NH as AG and waited. But no, she is choosing to leave them behind.

You don't delete young, nuture dependent, children like you do emails when leaving a job committment.

It will take a village to raise Kelly Ayotte's children.

Maybe that's Republican family values.

Independents won't agree.
- Bob Jean, Northwood, NH

Joe,
You have penned some inane crap over the years but your cowardly slap at Sarah Palin rates with the most silly.
Why in hell did you put that piece of drivel on Page 1?

Kind regards,
George Edmunds, North Sutton
- George Edmunds, North Sutton

One more piece of evidence that Sarah Palin is moving into the Republican establishment (if indeed she was ever out of it). Palin has consistently eschewed the right wing fringe candidates in her primary endorsements (e.g., Nevada's Sharron Angle) and has avoided making "Joe Barton-esque" type statements that the mainstream media and the Dems love to target as the "face of the GOP.". Let's not forget that Ronald Reagan was widely viewed as a fringie lightweight at this stage of the 1980 cycle and he wound up carrying NY, MA, and even VT.
- bill_o, manchester

Sarah just gave me another reason not to vote for Ayotte. Thanks Sarah. I won't be voting for you either when you run for President in 2010 you unqualified wannabe.
- Bill Martin, bedford

Both Kelly Ayotte and Sarah Palin failed to finish their previous commitments to serve in office (both left early for personal reasons and were incapable of completing their tenure as a public servant) Further Sarah aligned herself with a liberal in 2008. Is she a conservative or libertarian or just someone who is willing to compromise her moral compass to get into office?

The other backer of Ayotte should be MUCH more familiar to New Hampshire voters: Judd Gregg. Judd, who claims to be a conservative is right now "on the fence" about voting to confirm the partial birth advocate Elena Kagan to the SCOTUS. Never mind that she sees nothing wrong with repeating the alien and sedition acts of 1798.

We The People of New Hampshire do NOT need anyone else to tell us how to cast our individual votes. Investigate the candidates and talk with them yourself. You might find that other politicians and pundits have their best interest in mind which is likely very different from your best interests.

I can tell ypou one job objective that has stumped EVERY candidate for the US House of Representatives and US Senate alike. That objective is so important, that ignoring it has led in part to the economic mess we are currently in and the massive expansion of the Federal government and associated bloating of taxes.

No Representative nor Senator has the job description to do what is best for the country. Read that sentence again. Instead each representative and senator is chanrged with doing what is best for the people of their distrcit and state, respectively. What is best for the United States is acheived by the many representatives (435) and senators (100) determining if any given legislation will benefit the people they represent. To hear NH candiates and currently elected politicians as well as New Hampshire voters slamming Representatives and Senators from other districts and States, repsectively, is both foolish and absurd. The only people, ONLY people, who represent NH right now are 4. Similarly, if anyone of those 4 legislators takes advice or counsel on a particular issue from someone outside their district or State, they have sold their constitutents short. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are douchebags. They have, however, NO right nor obligation to represent the interests of anyone in New Hampshire. To fight for what is best for America means abondoning what is best for New Hampshire. It ignores the fact that we are 50 United States (57 if your last name is obama).
- Michael Layon, Derry

Good grief, say isn't so... I thought Kelly Ayotte had more sense than to chum up to the right wing nuts. This throws cold water on any chances of capturing Democratic and moderate Republican voters in November. Having served under both Democrat and Republican leadership, she has shown some NH independence that most people have admired. Kelly should “refudiate” Sarah Palin’s endorsement.
- Gary Way, Bedford

A punchline endorsing punchline, NH politics as usual.
- Jim Wilson, Manchester

Bob Jean, your implication that Ayotte will be a bad mother is a cheap shot. Young parents--fathers as well as mothers--are not prohibited from serving in Congress, nor in a sales, media, or corporate job that requires them to uproot their families rather than rear them in a single community. That's not the best possible parenting either, but as even Hillary wrote, our kids get by and generally turn out pretty well.

Your point on Ayotte and the special interests is quite valid. As the candidate of Obama cabinet secretary wannabe Judd Gregg, and of John McAmnesty, Ayotte is the establishment candidate; and under this President, given a Republican party that has been cowed against standing up to him, "establishment" means an ever-longer rulebook and army of federal regulators. It doesn't change this to be endorsed by Palin, whose future power to advance personal beliefs will require her to fit into the GOP machine. Similarities aside, Palin's endorsement tells us nothing about Ayotte except her acceptability to the permanent bipartisan bureaucracy.
- Spike, Brentwood NH

Sarah Palin couldn't have know the difference between Kelly Ayotte and Ovide Lamontagne.

Kelly is a really nice mother of some very young, small children that she intends to leave behind every week, all week, if she's elected to the Senate to represent NH's Republican family values in Washgington DC.

Once there Kelly Ayotte will do what she's always done while rising as an appointed person. She'll keep the people who have put her in power very happy. For the US Senate that means the special interest lobbyists.

Ovide Lamontagne's different. He waited until his children were grown and not dependent on him for day to day nurturing before he asked us to send him commuting to Washington every week.

Instead of seat-kissing his way into power, he's been very active, but not been willing to rise up the political ladder if it meant compromising his fundmental values.

We need people like Ovide Lamontagne who can commute each week to DC without leaving the committment of small children behind and give the important duties of the US Senate his undivided attention. Once there, we need Ovide Lamontagne's seadfast committment to fiscal responsibility.

But lets face it. Kelly Ayotte will be a social experiment pioneer. She's going to explore how successful motherhood can be via Skype webcam.

Good grief! How does that really work? How does selling that view of family values really work in a general election campaign? Some how I don't think Sarah Palin is the best person to sell that view.
- Bob Jean, Northwood, NH

I have seen many of Mel Gibson's movies and enjoyed them. Does that mean he is a friend and I defend his actions of terrible behavior?
Sarah is popular with conservatives and I am one of them.
She did the same thing in Nevada: endorsed the weaker of the two Republican US Senate candidates and I am sure they did not know each other.
If Sarah would just endorse the most fiscal/social conservative candidate it would make it easier to understand. Sarah will remain a popular figure for some time - heck she being on the ballot briought McCain much closer to Obama's numbers.
McCain has endorsed Kelly too - and John is no conservative!
bnyoung@metrocast.net
- Niel Young, Laconia

Thanks Joe!

You are such the intellectual! One question for you my well informed editor. Do children, that what the Democrats call them when it come to healthcare, who attend college here vote? Theeeeen not everyone that votes here is a Granite Stater you tater head!

http://www.sos.nh.gov/College%20Student%20Voting.pdf

Pssst, I know an illegal Romanian who voted here for Obama. Shhhhhh
- Gary Rivest, Weare

I'm sure if Gov. Palin knew what Ayottes record was she would not endorse her. The state GOP has/is backing Ayotte. I guess the fact that she (Ayotte) blocked an investigation into the Drug Task Force debacle and she is against the Castle Doctrine (as examples of her elitism) doesn't mean much to the GOP leadership. I guess that shows the rest of us who care just what the state GOP is all about.
- Michael King, Epping