Be careful what you wish for: Invasive species
In 2007, then chair of the New Hampshire GOP Fergus Cullen sowed the seeds for the party takeover by the folks he now disparages as “Tea Partiers, Ron Paul apostles and fringe figures.”
Hoping to put build a coalition to reverse Democratic gains in 2006, Cullen told Dave Weigel, “I’m excited by the fact that Ron Paul is turning on some libertarians and I hope they’ll want to get active in the Republican Party or support our Republican candidates.”
Fast forward to 2014 and Cullen now laments that the party has been overrun by an invasive species. In a Union Leader op-ed, he wrote, “Political parties have a responsibility to weed themselves of people who don’t represent their views, and primary season is the best time to do that.”
“Take the free staters,” he wrote.