Mark Kelly is the best VP pick
By Tom Brennan Any day now Kamala Harris will announce her choice for vice president. It will probably be Josh Shapiro. It should be Mark Kelly. Politics junkies everywhere have been playing this game. The people who know these things are not saying. The people who talk about it know least. But it is fun. So let’s dig in. First there is the question of who she will pick. A consensus of know-it-alls has emerged in recent days. It goes […]
Read MoreRomney, Christie and Mea Culpa Republicans
By Natalie Blumenstock Could it be the tough guys from the Tea Party era are sensitive new age guys? Before he grudgingly took Chris Sununu’s advice, and left the presidential race, Chris Christie cut a TV spot that was downright confessional. Christie had known Trump a long time. Christie new Trump’s flaws from Trump’s years in New York City. As a prosecutor in near by New Jersey, Christie put Jared Kushner’s father in jail. After Christie’s own 2016 presidential bid […]
Read MoreIt’s bad enough to betray NH, but for SC?
By Tom Brennan In the the film A Man for All Seasons, Richard Rich tries to rationalize his betrayal of Thomas More by explaining that the Crown would see to it he was made essentially the tax collector for Wales, if he turned on More. More is incredulous. Facing betrayal, and imminent beheading, he is preoccupied with his friend Richard having sold his soul so cheaply. “For Wales?” The effort by the White House and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) […]
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The Sununu Primary! Who will make the cut?
By Tom Brennan Governor Chris Sununu finds himself in an unlikely position this autumn. Everyone is waiting to hear who he supports for president. He was even a hot presidential prospect himself, until he took himself out of consideration. He was only 14 when his father, also Governor of New Hampshire, rescued the faltering presidential campaign of George HW Bush and parlayed that into a leap from the Governor’s office in Concord to White House chief of staff (COS). Another NH […]
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