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TO BE HONEST, I DON’T SEE SUNUNU AS HAVING A MOMENT: Patrick Hynes: Sununu’s Moment.
GOVERNOR SUNUNU has been an effective and popular leader here at home, and as he takes his show on the road to share New Hampshire’s success story with other states his commonsense approach and upbeat disposition are attracting a fair amount of attention. It’s time to start thinking of Governor Chris Sununu as a serious potential candidate for President of the United States. And it’s okay for Granite Staters to get excited about the idea.
If we were to construct a model of an ideal Republican presidential candidate, that person would undoubtedly be someone outside of the D.C. swamp, a governor in other words. They would be youngish; someone who offers fresh relief from the septuagenarian standoffs that have dominated our national politics for the past decade. They would present a forward-thinking and optimistic vision of the future untethered to the grievance and revenge politics that characterize the national debate in the 21st century. And they would have an unassailable record of accomplishment in service to people from all walks of life, not just their fellow partisans.
Chris Sununu not only fits that description, he is the yardstick by which we could measure any presidential aspirant against these criteria.
“A demeanor like Sununu’s is the remedy for what ails our national politics these days,” I wrote in this column way back in 2020.” Consider Sununu the anti-Trump. Optimistic, gregarious and ebullient, Sununu shows none of the belligerence that toxifies Washington every day. His jovial smile is a welcome break from Donald Trump’s brooding snarl or Joe Biden’s squinty, puzzled visage.”
Speaking as a grumpy right winger, who grows only grumpier as the years go on, I nevertheless long for the days when presidents were actually likeable people. Ronald Reagan, both George Bushes, and Barack Obama were all likeable. Heck, even Bill Clinton knew the value of faking likeability.
Beltway insiders will tell you that Joe Biden was a very popular and convivial U.S. Senator in his time. But he has long since abandoned likeability for cut-and-paste liberal class warfare and over-the-top race baiting. And whatever appeal Donald Trump still enjoys, it is certainly not due to his likeability.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a president who you liked?
I’ll settle for one who won’t screw me over. And I don’t trust someone who cares too much about being liked in today’s political environment, in which any Republican who does anything worthwhile is automatically hated.
But I think he’s a stronger prospect than Larry Hogan. “Larry Hogan was probably the only electable Republican in heavily Democrat Maryland, and did a decent job in a few respects contesting the Democrat-dominated legislature there. But as a prospective presidential candidate (as he is thought to be considering) he’d have been more suited as a running mate for Wendell Willkie or Harold Stassen, because he proves in this short clip from Meet the Press that he’s totally clueless about what is going on in the country right now, and beyond idiotic in thinking Gov. DeSantis attacking wokery is somehow ‘big government.’ He apparently wants Republicans to keep being ‘the stupid party.'”
Well, they certainly will be if they nominate him.
ICYMI: THOUGHTS ON OUR RULING CLASS MONOCULTURE, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, over at my Substack. With a request for further thoughts.
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MARK STEYN’S SONG OF THE WEEK: Cole Porter’s “Night and Day.”
Sinatra alone recorded the song a gazillion different ways: As a dreamy ballad in the bobbysoxer Forties. As a ring-a-ding-dinger in the swingin’ Fifties. He did it big and stately and formal with an army of strings. He did it with Latin bongos. He did it as a kick-around jump tune with trios and quartets. He sang it variously with the intro verse at the intro, and with the intro verse in the middle, and with the intro verse booted outro entirely. And, having exhausted all other options, in 1977 he did it as a disco number:
Finally, the long-awaited mashup of “Night and Day” and “The Theme from Shaft!”
Sinatra’s drummer and conductor hated the arrangement; read the whole thing.
DR. KESSLER, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Space debris apocalypse: 6 objects that could wreak havoc in Earth’s orbit.
HERE WE GO AGAIN: ‘Large white balloon’ spotted northeast of Hawaii.
LEMON SQUEEZED: Don Lemon Benched on Monday Over Sexist Remark Scandal, Insiders Say.
Don Lemon will not appear Monday on CNN This Morning as his future on the show continues to be discussed at the highest levels within the network, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Lemon, who was forced to make a groveling apology to CNN staffers on Friday after making offensive remarks about women and aging, had been scheduled to anchor This Morning alongside co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins, according to a copy of the CNN anchor schedule obtained and reviewed by Confider.
But by Sunday afternoon a new on-air lineup schedule was sent out by CNN management that had the show being anchored by Harlow and Sara Sidner in New York with Collins in Poland, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Earlier: John Nolte: Disgraced Don Lemon Is Melting Down … and It Is Glorious. “Sometimes we miss it when wonderful things happen. We’re all so busy going about our day that we fail to see the beauty of life right before our eyes. Sure, we can always look back and smile, but that’s not the same as embracing and enjoying it in real-time, and in real-time, Don Lemon is destroying his disgraced career. So, I thought it was important to point that out so we can share this moment together.”
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: UK Counter-Terrorism Program Flags Shakespeare and ‘1984’ for ‘Encouraging Far-Right Sympathies.’
Gee, you’d almost get the idea that the Leftist culture warriors who control Prevent, Britain as a whole, and the U.S. as well, want to destroy the civilization of which those works and writers are a hallmark. And you’d be right.
Prevent casts a wide net. The UK’s Daily Mail reported Friday that among the “potential signs of far-Right extremism” and “key texts” for “white nationalists/supremacists” that Prevent flagged were the “comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare.”
And much more: “A report by Prevent’s Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) described how far-Right extremists promoted ‘reading lists’ on online bulletin boards.” These include “The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, 1984 by George Orwell and the poems of GK Chesterton. It also referenced films including The Bridge On The River Kwai, The Great Escape and Zulu.”
So basically the best books, plays, films, and TV series produced by Britain “encourage far-right sympathies,” according to 21st leftist England. Does UK Prevent know how ridiculous they sound?
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: A Giant Planet Seems to Be Lurking Somewhere in Our Solar System.
DON’T WORRY, OUR CRACK “PUBLIC HEALTH” SQUAD WILL BE RIGHT ON THIS: Bird flu detected in Calif. as worries mount about mammal transmission.
BE PREPARED: The Prepper’s Survival Bible: The Tactical-Practical Guide to Survive to the Worst-Case Scenario. #CommissionEarned (Bumped)
I TALK ABOUT BLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA HISTORY ON Andrew Keen’s “Keen On” Podcast.
SALENA ZITO sits down with Nikki Haley.
UPDATE: Related: Nikki Haley’s two major flubs in her Fox Sunday interview. They don’t seem that major to me, but I also doubt Haley has what it takes to go all the way, and I don’t think she’s what a lot of GOP voters are looking for. As someone else said, she’s a 2008 Republican running in a 2024 election.
NOT LOST, ABANDONED, OR MAYBE ESCAPED: America’s Lost Generation. “The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board comments on the hundreds of thousands of kids who seem to have disappeared, following the covid school shutdowns.”
COMPANIES SHOULD FACE MORE LIABILITY FOR SECURITY BREACHES: GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Even in Bay Area, Jewish residents face ‘drumbeat’ of antisemitism.
WELL, THAT AND THE LOCKDOWNS: Is it fair to blame social media for teenagers’ mental health?
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Earlier: World Health Organization Recommends Stockpiling Meds for Radiological Catastrophe.
Related: The Unexpected Return of Duck and Cover.
Plus: Shhh: Nobody Talk About World War III.
(classical allusion in headline.)
THEY LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING: Former WH doctor for Trump, Obama blasts ‘alarming’ Biden health report: ‘The cover-up needs to end.’
QUESTION ASKED: Never Trump vs. Only Trump. Which is Worse?
SALENA ZITO, goes to Ron DeSantis’s hometown with the Governor.
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