Carol Shea-Porter joins DCCC fundraising effort

Carol Shea Porter has just proven herself as a total liar. I never liked her, but at least I thought she was honest. She is turning her back on the people that got her elected, and recent polls show that the voters are ready to send her back to the rock she crawled out from under.

Nothing in Jeb's ad was dishonest, the only thing dishonest this week was the development that Carol is abandoning her roots. Seeing as you were one of the rag-tag bunch that got her elected, you should be offended that you are being replaced now by millions in shiny TV ads and slick DC consultants. I thought she was going to run a "20" campaign, like the pins all of her people have been wearing for the past year. I thought it would be a campaign of 20 people giving $20, then recruiting 20 more people to giver $20...not DC cash being funneled in by PACs and lobbyists. By joining Chris Van Hollen's program, she is abandoning you and her roots. This is not who the 1st District elected.

CSP's Frontline Flip Flop represents a 180 degree turn for her, and symbolically it says a lot. CSP expressed distain for Frontline at several points in the past year. Not her style of politics, she said. Inconsistent with what she and her supporters are all about, she said. I suspect the UNH poll showing her losing to one Republican and in the low 40s against her other opponent has a lot more to do with her reversal than the very gentle ad that is running. The Washington crowd has known CSP's in trouble - way too liberal and too lacking in political saavy - for a long time. So have NH Dem party leaders, when they're being honest with each other. CSP's decision to abandon her principles and take the cash says a lot about how deep in trouble she is.
Fergus Cullen
Chairman, NH GOP

Fergus, you don't bring rocks to a gunfight .....or is that a tasteless analogy given your recent faux pas?

Since day one it has been my understanding that the door was always open to working on Frontline.

That has been common knowledge "inside" and out. Carol made this clear on Political Chowder last year.

Everything was contingent on how the Republicans acted.

I for one have predicted that the right wing and the RNC will pull out every dirty trick they know. (Remember how Jeb Bradley treated Martha Fuller Clark)

We've already seen ads that start with Osama Bin Ladin and end with CSP.

And John Stephen has his hands out to Abramoff pals already. He hasn't even started advertising, but with that crowd behind him I'd guess we'll be seeing David Carney Texas in NH style advertising.
( remember the Russel Prescott ads against Maggie Hassen? The "Pigs at a trough" and minorities in the welfare line backfired big time because Roger Goun and others exposed the sheer creepiness of these ads and who was responsible.

Prescott became a laughing stock.

So try as they might, the worst players in the Republican party will never see us campaign with one hand tied behind out backs.

All of these weirdo-liberal hippies seem to get pretty defensive about Carol Shea Porter! She was grossly unqualified to be a member of Congress when she was elected, doesn't understand the 2nd Amendment, supports socialist tax policies, and wants to surrender to the terrorists in Iraq. Jeb and John will cut taxes, support the Constitution, and vote for securing Iraq. Our children will be a lot safer if hippies like Carol Shea Porter are voted out of office!

Independent candidate Peter Bearse ( http://www.peterbearseforcongress.com ) dinged her on this when we crashed her bogus town meeting in Epping. She then proceeded to prove him right. I've got it on video embedded at http://nhcitizen.org/csp/

She may be very loyal to her core supporters but she treats the rest of us like dog meat. She does NOT see herself as representing us all.