NH GOP Fantasy

We were in MA a few weeks ago. Because the New England states are small, Maggie Hassan was filling the airwaves with the announcement that she had earned an award for fiscal responsibility. Really, we had to look it up because we were watching it without sound at breakfast in the motel so we thought an opponent might be making fun of Maggie but the ad was Maggie’s doing about a real thing.

Yes there are small states back east and that is why Boston is broadcasting ads for NH voters. The five smaller New England states (CN, MA, NH, RI, VT), according to Rand McNally, have a land area of just under 32,000 square miles. Wisconsin is over 54,000 square miles and is just the twenty-fifth largest state in the union.

Our fantasy is to be Maggie’s opponent and get to ask her about her actions. We’d like to ask her where was your voice in opposition when our president, The Frontrunner, proposed (yes we need staff to get the number and the dates exactly right) $2.5 trillion in new spending? We heard from Joe and sometimes Kyrsten but never Maggie. What about when it went down to $1.5 trillion? How did you vote on the half trillion dollar “Inflation Reduction Act?” Yes, we plan to use air quotes. And then there is the significant part of a trillion dollars that The Frontrunner wants use to cancel student debt. You have said on your website: “We must take action to help ensure that borrowers are not crushed by the weight of student debt.” What do you think of The Frontrunner’s action?

It is not a fantasy because we don’t live in NH. Dr. Oz and carpetbaggers going way back have shown that is not a problem. We’ve lived in NH several times and visited often so that is not the problem. There are three solid reasons why it is a fantasy. First, and we are counting all the presentation issues as one, we have a face for radio and a voice that would have kept us out of talkies. Continuing with number one, Maggie at 167 centimeters plus heels would be looking down at us. There is a really limited number of short, fat, and dumpy senators.

Second, there is the atheist thing. That is a problem that can’t be fixed, especially for a candidate for a GOP nomination.

Third, there will come the time in the debate when Maggie, or her advocate in the media, asks us questions. If we were Maggie, we’d own up to all the stupid stuff and then ask: “What will you and the GOP do that is different?” It is an excellent question as the GOP is currently leaderless and one agenda short of having an agenda. As Yuval Levin says, The GOP needs an agenda. Desperately. Individual members of the GOP speak but nobody speaks for the GOP when The Frontrunner cancels hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt. The GOP has no education policy. The GOP has no energy policy. We, ourselves, have an energy policy starting with a modest carbon tax that replaces the gas tax but will even the GOP support that?

We’d love to spend time in NH as a senator but it is not going to happen. We still have our Live Free Or Die number plates. We do hope that the GOP candidate gets through the media to ask Maggie some serious questions. If Maggie gets some serious questions then the candidate could be a senator and help the GOP set an actual agenda.