The Merrimack Journal is entitled to its opinion, even if it doesn’t actually have one of its own.  In this weeks edition the editors (Of the Milford Cabinet) prove me right again by endorsing only democrats for Governor, Congress, and the Senate.  They use the Journal as a natural extension of their out of the Cabinet love affair with Obama, whose endorsement the Journal printed—I believe it was last week—almost verbatim (only edited for space) from the Milford Cabinet version published the week prior.

But to their credit, and in the interests of unbiased Bias, the Journal did offer us this one nostrum in advance of their endorsements.

“…we encourage all voters not to take our word for it, but to invest the time and effort to learn about the candidates on their own.”

Sounds to me like they had a gun to their heads; too bad they couldn’t take their own advice.

Lets begin with Jeanne Shaheen.  The Journal states that she…

 “was a popular centrist in Concord and we expect her to stay that way in Washington.”

So you see the problem right away.  If you listen to Jeanne, or read her policy positions, there is nothing in evidence to suggest that she was, is, or plans to be a centrist in Washington.  The Journal screwed the pooch on the first endorsement, making things worse by suggesting that it wasn’t an easy choice to make.    Had you looked at her record and her policies with a critical eye (instead of with one brown eye) you’d have never called her a centrist.  She’s a Reid-Pelosi liberal and not a wit smarter than either.

Carol Shea Porter…

“…has represented the state with integrity, and she deserves a return trip to Washington.

If the state is California they might have a point, but there is no significant evidence that she was voting for New Hampshire, or that integrity had anything at all to do with it.  It is much more obviously the case that she was begging for attention from mother-Pelosi, voting for inclusion into the exclusive left leaning donkey-matic liberal maker clique.  Of course Pelosi never returned the favor, snubbing most if not all of Shea-Porters own legislation.  I have to thank Nancy for that at least. 

If Sheep-Porter had any actual integrity she might have dropped her script and spent part of the past two years in the House noticing and voting for New Hampshire families by following Republican efforts to regulate and de-fang the GSE’s instead of Gelling Nancy Pelosi’s coif, or licking her shoes.   Then of course there is the matter of taking thousands in campaign cash from the PACs of criminals like John—“how about some more pork with that” and “my constituents are racists”— Murtha, and Charlie— “You want me  to pay taxes on that” and “no I’m not stepping down” Rangel.

But my favorite has to be their endorsement of John Lynch, though it is hardly a glowing appraisal. 

“…voters can be sure he won’t get in front of anything that doesn’t have overwhelming support.”

That’s leadership for you.  Lynch is a leader behind many men, an invertebrate, incapable of applying simple management skills to control the democrat mob in the legislature.   The Journal exacerbates its ignorance—in contradiction of its own preamble to “invest the time and effort”—to claim that Lynch “would still be a good counterbalance to the legislatures more liberal initiatives.”  Hello!  Is this thing turned on?  He already had a bite at that apple Einstein.

How’s this for good balance.  A multi-million dollar surplus disappears to be replaced by a budget that grew half a billion dollars.  We have a deficit that is projected to grow from 200-500 million depending on who’s lying to who about how it’s not as bad as it looks.  

Some of the other liberal tendencies Lynch failed to counterbalance the first time around include robbing people of personal property rights, stealing our parental rights, increases in 23 taxes or fees, and other gross forms of fiscal malfeasance.  The list of his failures on that point alone is enormous.  He’s the rubber chicken executive, a punch line; they are the pimps and he is their whore.  Someone should draw a line from the corner of each mouth down to his chin, and attach some strings to each of his joints.

‘Good counterbalance’ to what!? 

And to make it even more farcical, their argument against Joe Kenney is that “having Kenney’s conservative agenda in the corner office (with what they expect to be a continued democrat majority in the legislature) would be a recipe for gridlock”, like compared to Lynch that’s a bad thing.

Gridlock would be a huge improvement.  I just got my tax bill and I’m not happy.

The Journal’s endorsements reads like a suicide note written at gun point, lacking any evidence that they even bothered to take their own advice seriously.  While that may in fact be the case, let’s just hope their readers have enough sense to “not take their word for it.”

One final point for my liberal friends preparing to dust off the pithy, “If you don’t like what they print then don’t read it” comments.

May I suggest that you first stop supporting candidates whose answer to conservative talk radio is not “If you don’t like it then don’t listen” but is in fact, legislate them out of existence.  If you are not prepared to make that leap, don’t waste my time by telling me not to read my town newspaper.

Cross posted at  NHInsider.com