Comments on: NHGOP: Shea-Porter’s Bogus Bush Town Hall Tale

By: Shea-Porter emulates ‘Kerry strategy’ re: being thrown out of town hall. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:50:17 +0000

[...] on this issue here: the short version is that Rep. Carol Shea-Porter is rather belatedly attempting to [...]

By: Moe Lane » Shea-Porter emulates ‘Kerry strategy’ re: being thrown out of town hall.

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:46:46 +0000

[...] on this issue here: the short version is that Rep. Carol Shea-Porter is rather belatedly attempting to [...]

By: Matt Suermann

Matt Suermann — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:00:57 +0000

Pindell put her on the down side this week in his political standing for this exact episode:

Carol Shea-Porter: For all her strengths as a politician this week we saw a bit of her political weakness. First she claims a former state Republican Chairman was caught in a lie about her in a Portsmouth Herald letter to the editor. Then there is the other Herald story about whether she was or wasn’t kicked out of the a Bush event in 2005. She is not down this week based on who was right or wrong. The bigger question is why is a vulnerable sitting Congresswoman engaging with a former state GOP chair over a letter to the editor in a paper with a circulation of less than 20,000? If she feels the urge to engage maybe she should try her real opponent: Frank Guinta. She took the bait and none of the press this week helped her cause.

By: Fergus Cullen

Fergus Cullen — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:51:00 +0000

What is also bizarre here is that Crazy Carol called Wayne Semprini this week to dress him down about his recollection of the waffle event. She just can’t resist being baited about things she ought to simply ignore. Wayne has acknowledged his recollection of the details of the waffle incident could have been off a bit, but that’s understandable: He would not have had reason to know who CSP, then a citizen-activist from outside his community and not a candidate, was among the crowd that day, and I can easily see why he might have assumed, four years later, that CSP was among the waffle hatted. After all, leading the waffle brigade that day was none other than lefty Susan Bruce, who is so like-minded with CSP that Bruce was later on CSP’s campaign payroll. So Wayne can be excused for getting a minor detail wrong, and he’s acknowledged that he did. But it’s clear that CSP was only too happy to talk up getting thrown out of the Bush event, embellishing the tale like Tom Sawyer might, when it suited her as a badge of honor among lefties. Now she’s deliberately trying to rewrite history when she knows it wasn’t so.

By: Vis Unita Fortior

Vis Unita Fortior — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:41:02 +0000

For anyone who didn’t follow the last two links, they do show CSP, as cited by the paper, making contradictory statements.

(Although in the second link Mr. Semprini’s original “waffle hats” statement is debunked including a picture of her at the event sans waffle hat. It seems to me that if the NHGOP is going to declare CSP’s statement to be commission of fraud as it did in this press release, it ought to also condemn Mr. Semprini’s statement as fraudulent.)

By: fairmind

fairmind — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:51:06 +0000

This is why republicans needed a website. this is excellent work on redhampshires part. If you want to continue with your investigation call over to WMUR. I understand that there was actual television footage where she was caught on tape. WMUR doesn’t have it anymore, but they seel old tapes to a company that archives them. Someone needs to call over there and see if the video of her is still available. From what i heard she was so ridiculous they took her away in handcuffs. I think she may have even been arrested for it. A right to know request would get you the info from the police department. Keep working on this, it is big.