Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin continues his
four-part Memorial Day weekend series analyzing the state of New
Hampshire ’s U. S. Senate race with some thoughts today
on his role in the upcoming primary election. Andy began his campaign one year
ago, on Memorial Day weekend. He suggests he is in the process of winning the
“first primary,” and can then go on to tackle the “general” primary with Scott
Brown. Andy’s opponents other than Brown have not shown they have any
significant potential to dislodge Brown from first place. Only Andy can take on
that task. The anti-Brown electorate needs a leader; that leader is Andy.
Andy’s status as the “anti-Brown” explains why Browns supporters, who control
the GOP apparatus, are trying to marginalize Andy’s campaign.
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Today: Where does Andy’s campaign fit into the
primary mix?
Are Scott Brown’s supporters in the GOP
establishment trying to run Andy’s campaign off the road because Andy is the
only serious threat to Brown?
Andy says “New Hampshire Democrats come to fight;
New Hampshire
(Manchester , NH May 27, 2014 )
Dear Republican:
One year ago on Memorial Day weekend I announced my
candidacy for the U. S. Senate. It seemed like an impossible dream. Jeanne Shaheen
was the political colossus. No one expected her to be challenged for
reelection. More candidates were running away
from the senate race than announcing their candidacies. I had a game plan and
decided to take on Shaheen. It looked like an impossible dream, but tough
assignments are nothing new for me.
By last fall the Obamacare fiasco had made Shaheen appear
vulnerable. Scott Brown began doling out his Massachusetts
1. Scott Brown’s decision
In December, Scott Brown started to make serious noises
about running. But Brown’s support appears to be centered in the desiccated and
enervated New Hampshire GOP leadership. At a meeting in Nashua
Brown’s decision to run against Shaheen has never made sense
to me. But as I have studied Scott Brown’s psychology (watch for our
“Psychological Profile” of El Scott-o next month) it is clear Brown’s mind does
not work in a straight line. While knocking off Shaheen might have appeared an
easy task at the end of the year she was never going to be an easy mark for
Brown or any other Republican.
Brown was making piles of money and had a sufficient
national profile that he could have been a vice presidential balance wheel for
a conservative presidential candidate in 2016. But Brown wanted to run against
another woman (three in a row).
Later today Brown is going to receive several endorsements.
I don’t think endorsements are worth very much in a primary. Unlike official
party organizations and officials who take an oath of neutrality, people are
free to “endorse” whom they want. But an “endorsement” also carries with it the
baggage of the endorser.
On balance, I think every decision Brown has made is
questionable or flat out wrong. He is leading because of his “past,” not his
“future.” The media have inflated Brown and, in due course, they will “go
liberal” and deflate him if he wins the primary.
But there is still a pesky primary to come in September.
Brown is obviously favored to win. But the odds are against him winning by a
sufficient margin to threaten Shaheen.
2. The “Three Zombies” fail to make an impression
Once Brown made clear he was coming into the Senate primary
I then felt and feel even more strongly today there would be “two” primaries. One
preliminary primary would come among the non-Brown candidates, to see who could
“roll up” the primary opposition against Brown into a leading role as the Brown
opponent. Then the “first primary” would take place, between the winner of the “challengers’
primary” and Brown.
Despite a relentless effort by Brown’s supporters to pretend
I don’t exist, I slowly started to win the “first primary.” A recent article in
the Lowell Lowell Concord Merrimack
But, obviously if one of the Three Zombies (Jim Rubens, Bob
Smith, Karen Testerman) had shown some break-out potential my role as the upcoming
anti-Brown avatar might be diluted. Unfortunately for the zombies they are,
well zombies. Let’s take a look at them.
A. Karen Testerman
I do not know Karen Testerman but what I have heard speak to
the fact that she is a very decent and honorable person. Notwithstanding those
salutary personal characteristics Testerman has not shown that she has any
serious potential as an opponent for Jeanne Shaheen, who is a hard core, dirty-fighting
New Hampshire Democrat. I am certain Testerman is a sincere candidate, and she
probably has an equally limited but sincere following. But she has no more
chance of dislodging Brown as the front runner, or even shaking up Brown, than
she has shown in her prior races.
B. Bob Smith
I am not going to beat up on Bob Smith. The fact that Smith
has announced as a candidate of many political parties, and held a
self-confessed “anger” for Republicans sufficient to endorse John Kerry in 2004,
speak to Smith’s fitness for a comeback in his mid 70’s. Since Smith has stated
openly he holds grudges, will he endorse the Democrat if he loses the GOP
primary? No one can predict what Smith will do, not even him. Unpredictability
does not bode well for what will have to be a very hard fought and highly
concentrated race against Shaheen.
C. Jim Rubens
We finally arrive at the desk of Jim Rubens, the “mini
Romney” who took a 16 ( or is it 18?) year vacation from politics to make a
fortune as a private equity financier. We all know how that turned out in New
Hampshire
I have actually met Rubens and I think highly of him. He seems
like a very decent fellow. But Rubens has a fatal flaw, one in the primary and
one in the unlikely prospect he won the primary.
In the primary, Rubens will not attack. He is running what
he apparently calls a “positive” campaign. But primaries are supposed to be
“negative” by their very nature. A political party holding a primary is trying
to sort out who is the strongest opponent to fight the opposing party. Both the strengths and weaknesses of a
candidate can legitimately be brought out. Unfortunately for Republicans, they
love to hold “Ostrich” primaries, where nothing “negative” is said. Then they watch in horror as their untested and
un-vetted candidate is clobbered into extinction by the Democrats in November.
With the hitherto undisclosed “negatives.”
In New Hampshire
I am not attacking Rubens but here is a hypothetical
question for Jim: If you have been out of politics for 16 or 18 years, and your
principal opponent holds the “high ground,” with the media and GOP
establishment in his pocket, how do you propose to dislodge Mr. Brown from his
seemingly secure position? Pardon the phrase, but I will answer my own
question. “It ain’t happening.”
So Jim Rubens is a fine man. But if he is unable to attack
Brown and rip into Brown's lies, inconsistencies and insufferable arrogance,
Rubens will never dislodge Brown from first place. Rubens says he is in second
place in the primary. Doubtful.
By process of exclusion, that leaves me as the only
“anti-Brown” candidate who can attack Brown and dislodge him from his perch.
That’s why Brown’s supporters in the GOP hierarchy are working overtime to
undermine my candidacy.
3. Andy’s campaign
This year, my family celebrates 100 years (yup, a full
century) in New Hampshire New Hampshire Massachusetts Elm Street Manchester University
of Illinois
Afterwards, I was intrigued by the brawling city of Chicago Chicago
When Barack Obama decided he was presidential material I
already knew him as a state senator in Springfield United
States
When I came home to New Hampshire Pine Grove
Cemetery Manchester New
Hampshire
Bottom line: I have shown from the gitgo I have the
willingness to attack Brown and to expose his bogus record. Anyone who does not
want Brown pretty much has to want me if he or she wants to vote against Brown.
The Three Zombies have not shown themselves to be in the same class as Brown
and me.
Slowly, perhaps imperceptibly for our rather forlorn and
provincial media, my campaign has moved from being the impossible dream to the
improbable dream and it is on its way to becoming a realizable dream.
The only reason we are voting to select a candidate is to
decide who is the best person to battle Shaheen. Brown has shown he can’t run
against a serious woman. He is fixated on Obamacare, when a Republican
candidate needs to me more than a Johnny-one-note to bring down the Great
Shaheen. Brown is leading based on name recognition and the Massachusetts
Brown is actually rerunning his 2012 from Massachusetts New Hampshire
4. What if they gave a primary and no one paid attention?
Scott Brown’s strategy is very obvious. He is going to
ignore the Three Zombies, thereby deflating their hopes for a contested
primary, and pray his establishment supporters can derail my campaign with
dirty tricks. But the media are becoming wise to Brown’s strategy as the Lowell
If Brown effectively boycotts the primary and the three
Zombies are left to flail about among themselves, the GOP will become a
laughingstock and the primary will become a clown show. I suspect that Brown’s
“schedule conflict” for June 18th (see Lowell
And so my friends, there you have it. Allow the GOP
leadership to harass and attack me, and there won’t really be a U. S. Senate
primary. The Three Zombies will peddle their wares to an empty theater, and Mr.
Brown will waltz into the nomination effectively unopposed.
With the foregoing prospect rather obvious from Brown’s “conflicted”
schedule for joint appearances, the only way New Hampshire Republicans can have
a real primary is if I am a part of the election. And of course, if the party
establishment attacks me, I will fire right back, Chicago
If the Republican Party leadership continues to rip me, they
can expect to be ripped back. That’s the Chicago Way New Hampshire Democratic Party Way
The senate primary is starting to get interesting.
Loyally,
Andy
P.S. Please do the right thing. Open your mind. Consider
voting for me in the primary. You’ll be proud you did.
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ABOUT ANDY:
Andy is a
legendary New Hampshire-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk
television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s
family immigrated to Manchester Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where
he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and
television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask”
[www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film "Obama: The
Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and
publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com.
He comments on New Hampshire USA
Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American
politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of
the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com.
See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us;
www.EnglishforAmerica.org
He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of
Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City
University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).
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