That Vision Thing

I was at the Coburn/Lynch debate the other night to help with signs and had to leave early to get to our NH Taxpayer Radio program (WLMW 90.7FM Thursday evenings 6-8 pm – no commercials) which was being manned ably by CNHT First Vice Chair, Howard Dilworth and Dan McGuire of the Republican Liberty Caucus. I got to our program about 15 minutes into it and did not see the debate until last night on C-SPAN.

No wonder the in-the-tank-for-Lynch papers were saying things like “No knock-out punch by either side.”

Lynch looked like scared little rabbit – Coburn like an adult. Coburn won.

The weirdest thing though was the eye blinking by Lynch. He was batting about three blinks per second. Try it yourself some time. Blink your eyes as fast as possible for a minute and see how strange that really is. Now think about Lynch doing it for the whole debate. Its a wonder he didn't fall off the stage.

Calm down Gov.! You got pitched soft balls for goodness sake. Spradling even popped the old popularity theme into at least one question for ya.

Maybe it dawned on Lynch that night how, if he wins a second term, his own tax and spend liberals are going for his throat if he doesn't support an income and sales tax. I was at a forum in Portsmouth back when Gov. Shaheen was set upon by about four hundred angry liberals. It wasn't pretty. The only people I saw in the place from my side of the political isle were having a grand old time watching Shaheen get spanked by the Volvo crowd.

Lynch is at his highest point in his political career so far. My advice: stop the blinking and enjoy it while it lasts.

Comments

[J. B.]

Your posts have never made much sense in the past but Eddie, I gotta tell ya, you are out of your mind with this one. Eddie, get a grip. Coburn is headed toward making history as getting the least votes of any Republican gubernatorial nominee in since the founding of the party in the 1850s. Stop the lies.

[Ed Naile]

J.B.

Aren't you the Bob Baines guy?

[nhwoodsman]

I must say, Mr. Naile did catch the eye blinking thing that others have missed, and that was quite annoying. He also looked a bit nervous, like that scared rabbit Mr. N. spoke about.

But poor Jim Coburn looked downright tired. He wasn't up to snuff, that's for sure, and his performance suffered, no question about it.

It's hard to pick a winner here, but I'd say Coburn on facts, Lynch on style, but only barely.

[Sam]

No reasonable person watching that debate thought that Coburn won. He had a virtual mental breakdown answering a question. He looked so lost it was pitiful.

[Ed Naile]

Guys:

The way I look at it the NH press has gone so over the top for this guy he should have mopped the floor with a mild-mannered guy like Jim Coburn.

When it come right down to it Coburn will stand up to the court. Lynch is hoping everything goes his way like it has with the press so far.

There was no $300 million dollar deficit. That was bogus
think tank crap from the Center For Public Policy Studies, some offshoot of the NH Charitable Trust - pro-income taxers

All the back-room players are propping up Lynch but Blinky still has to stand on his own in a debate.

I didn't see it.

Blink,blink,blink

(Sam: You noticed a mental breakdown and I noticed bizzare blinking as described in medical journals. I guess we have a conflict of visions.)

[Anonymoose]

When it comes to Lynch, talk about dishonesty!

Passed were HB 391 and HB 345 both of which would have helped stop voter fraud in NH.

Mr Blinky is just a scared stiff crook. Coburn looked at the camera straight. Talk about nervous breakdowns, Lynch is just lucky those two issues never came up.