Palin and Coburn for Kelly Ayotte.

Laura Ingraham and Dan Quayle for Ovide Lamontagne.

Chris Christie says he will be campaigning for candidates this fall. Could he endorse Ayotte like he did Castle?

Romney has been spending the summer in NH. Will Romney back Ayotte?

who lost his last state-wide election *badly* when this was still a “red” state, or at least reddish purple. Historically, his appeal seems largely limited to those whose sole or principle litmus test is an absolute opposition to abortion (just sayin’, not criticizing). While I’d vote for him in the general and would prefer someone more conservative than Kelly Ayotte, Lamontagne simply cannot carry enough additional votes in the general to win, even over a spineless worm like hodes. And while my own views sometimes verge on Attila’s, I find him just a bit too extreme.

where he’s a successful businessman rather than a professional politician and / or lawyer, I was all for him until he came out for amnesty for illegals last spring. One juan mccain is two too many.

I don’t know enough about the NH Candidates to know whether Lamontagne is indeed ‘too Conservative’ for New Hampshire, I tend to doubt that’s true given his favorable ratings in that poll, but even if that is true it’s still far better to have him in second than the leftist, as the ‘worst case’ scenario would be having an extra-Conservative guy win the Primary, whereas before the worst case scenario was a much more liberal guy winning the Primary back when it was Binnie who was closing in on Ayote.

From everything Ive read, Ayote seems like a fine person to nominate, and I certainly strongly supported her when it was between her and the more liberal fellow. Now that the more liberal guy has faded and the choice is down to two Conservative candidates, I think each has an obligation to show us all why they are the more Conservative, and why they are the more electable, of the two. If the bottom line is that one is more Conservative, while the other is more electable (as seems the case right now) then we’ll have to do our best to judge ‘how much’ more Conservative, and ‘how much’ more electable, each is. Its a much more pleasant problem to have than the one we had before, back we had a serious threat from the left.

Hopefully this poll is correct, and Binnie and Castle’s numbers are indeed heading in the same direction, straight down, and come Sept 14th we’ll be looking at nothing but good Conservative nominees, and the only question in New Hampshire will be not ‘if’ a Conservative has won, but which one won.

Polling by Dick Bennet’s American Research Group conducted last week also put Lamontagne in second place, even before Sunday’s Manchester Union Leader endorsement. That tells me that Ovide’s numbers were already moving up solely on his grass roots activities and last week’s first time radio spots………and Ayotte’s negatives from all the Binnie-Ayotte attack ads.

This will be a dogfight between Ayotte-Lamontagne down to the Sept 14th primary. Binnie, Bender and the 3 other lessor known candidates collectively will pull 33% (1/3). It’s all about how Ayotte and Lamontagne split the other 66%.

However, only Ayotte supporters (Neil) define this as a race for 2nd place. This is a race for 1st place…….and we are likely to get the answer in the early hours of Sept 15th.

Kelly will be nothing but a John McCain puppet, he came to NH to campaign for her. I see her in the Olympia Snowe/Susan Collins mold and am just not interested. I think after the debate on Sept 9th, the voters will realize who the true conservative is and support Ovide Lamontagne.

after picking Joe Miller in Alaska I trust Sarah Palin to know Kelly Ayotte is a “real conservative”

Ayotte’s campaign has been telling conservatives she is the only one that can stop Binnie and Hodes so even though LaMontagne is the real conservative in the race , we have to settle for our second choice.

The pragmatist argument is crumbling like a sand castle on a beach.

Binnie is fading in the polls , LaMontagne’s poll numbers have doubled in the last month and he leads Hodes in a head to head contest.

When you throw in the fact the Republican Washington establishment is supporting Ayotte and her backers are precisely the same people who talked like Republicans and voted like Democrats and expanded federal government and its powers to outrageous levels, NH conservatives are in a position to take back the senate seat that belongs to them , not to Judd Gregg’s annointed one and not a candidate beholden to the Washington establishment.

Conservatives have a chance to make fundamental changes in our country and LaMontagne will help us do it….

She’s a rookie campaigner who’s got boatloads of cash, high-profile endorsements from people like McCain and Palin, an incredibly unpopular likely Democrat challenger — and she STILL CAN’T CLOSE THE DEAL. Ayotte’s support has been basically static for months, she avoids debates like the plague, and she allows herself to get into stupid mud-slinging contests with non-factors like Binnie. Bottom line: SHE’S A LOUSY CAMPAIGNER. She has been convinced by the establishment GOP that she can pretty much hit the cruise control on her campaign and snooze behind the wheel until September 15th. Ovide has been relentless and energizing, winning straw polls (except the ones that Jim Bender decides to purchase), and essentially doubling his numbers in the last six weeks. To cap it off, he’s also received the Union Leader’s endorsement and has a broadcasting heavyweight named Laura Ingraham giving him THOUSANDS of dollars of free air time with her advocacy. Oh, and he’s just got on TV this week too. Let Kelly sleep, she’s being passed by the superior vehicle anyway and she’s nowhere near the finish line.

by not even mentioning that FACT that Ayotte supported Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court!!

This automatically disqualifies her in my book! She supported a far left radical judge who supported racial discrimination in the New Haven firefighter case. If that wasn’t enough, Sotomayor voted against the 2nd Amendment in the Chicago vs. McDonald case.

I don’t understand how any real conservative could support such a far left radical who has no respect for the Constitution to the Supreme Court.

What’s even worse is that NO ONE is talking about this. It’s like it never happened! Even the Union Leader which supported Ovide and did a great job attacking Binnie in Sunday’s paper, has not mentioned it.

If someone wants to vote for for the RINO Ayotte, then so be it, but they need to know the truth!

Ovide is the only real conservative in this race. He has taken a 15 point pledge of promises to deliver on when he’s elected. Among them are to

1. Vote for only judges who adhere to the Constitution and don’t legislate from the bench.

2. Enacting term limits.

3. Repealing Obamacare

4. Repeal the failed Stimulus

5. To live in NH and commute to Washington as necessary to vote. This will allow him to stay in close touch with his constituents.

http://ovide2010.com/?p=1362

Finally, Ovide has more than doubled his support over the last few months. The regulars (Stevens and Haystack) here at Redstate were saying it was clearly a two-person race between Ayotte and Binnie. They were afraid that voting for Ovide would only in reality amount to voting for Binnie. Clearly they were wrong as Ovide has surged past the ultra-liberal Binnie.

Now if we can get the support of real conservatives, Ovide can beat Ayotte next Tuesday!!

All conservatives need to rally behind Ovide. There is no need to compromise your principles and settle for the RINO Ayotte.

Please make a donation to Ovide today:

http://ovide2010.com/

That Redstate was a place to support real conservatives. It’s their responsibility to make people aware of who’s a solid conservative and who clearly isn’t.

It’s been very frustrating seeing no one talk about Ayotte’s support of Sotomayor. You want to support her, fine, but please don’t ignore the giant elephant in the room.

Erik Erikson made a great post about Ovide and Ayotte today.

watch the St. Anselms debates tonight if you want to see who is best to represetn us.

The only thing that keeps me from thinking Kelly is a really good candidate is the Sotamayor thing. Can any of her supporters please explain what that was all about? I have heard she supported her and then “changed her mind”.
(Sotamayor is not fit for the court, solely from a LEGAL point of view).
I got two good answers from Kelly today when she was on Howie Carr. I asked if she would be against ANY form of amnesty, and if she would vote to repeal Obamacare. She quickly said “yes” to each.
I think in this year, either her or Ovide will clean Hode’s clock. It’s the year of the outsider.