She does not hide behind the rocks like Shaheen does.

You can not seriously questioning the qualifications of Senator Ayotte. There has never been, and I hope and pray there never will be again, a person less qualified for a position than Barack Obama. Nothing in his background qualified him to lead the Free World. If he had approached any Fortune 500 company with his CV as a perspective candidate for the CEO position he would have been summarily dismissed.

I guess intellectually dishonest people with always distort and detract from the truth so they can make themselves look better on a local website. 1.) Ayotte has the freedom as an American to be as right wing as she wants. She was endorsed by the Tea Party and received 60.2% of the vote. Your dislike for her is in the minority. 2.) Your deception is "C'mon..cotraceptives?" The objection to this bill is twofold. First, the government has no right to mandate an employer to provide contraception to any employer, let alone one practicing their religious freedom granted under the Constitution. Second, the amendment include a mandate on funding the morning after pill. Even though you may disagree, people in this country are allowed to believe life begins at conception. Communists and socialists would like to remove such freedom, but Americans still have it. The US government has no right to mandate a church as an employer to go against its faith. 3.) Roy Blunt tried to squeeze this amendment into a HIGHWAY BILL, and it isn't acceptable to claim "that's just how things are done." Birth control and highway bills are not related. Blunt tried to slip it in the back door hoping no one was looking. So if you would like to cut the crap about "C'mon..contraceptives" and be honest with reality instead of your liberal agenda, you might actually do some public good.

To add to this: If life does not begin at conception, when does it begin? This a serious question that needs to be answered by pro-choice people, but they never will. Their obvious desire is to claim at birth, but every woman who has had a child knows that is a crock. That baby is alive and kicking before it is born. So when did it become an individual life? 1 month? 2? 3? 4? Pro-choice folks, please give some scientific evidence as to when that baby came alive if it isn't at conception. Oops, you can't. That baby is an individual life upon conception. Terminating that life, with separate DNA is nothing but murder. It doesn't matter what you want to call it. It is what it is.

Shameful female trying to appease her guilt of supporting the murdering of an innocent life. Murder is the people's business.

Again, a woman can do anything she wants with her own body: tattoos, piercings, cut off a pinky finger, etc. By definition, the embryo is not her own body. It has different DNA and is human. A distinct life.

It is of my concern. As is capital punishment and slavery. The devaluation of human life is a concern of all humans.

and she was groomed and financially supported by Romney in 2010 - who could ask for a better choice???

Jan: "financially supported by Romney in 2010". Really? How much did Romney contribute to Ayotte's campaign in 2010? He is not listed as a top donor on opensecrets.org

And you think all the money to support a candidate is on some scorecard? please, you aren't that dense

I find it quite amusing when a regular poster presents speculation to support a previous post and if challenged, the poster labels the challenger as "Dense", but if the Challenger brings forth specualtion to support opposite views of the regular poster, this regular poster demands links or facts----------

Sorry Holly. You are getting killed here with an argument that you can not refute. So your tactic is to disengage because you are unable to offer anything credible. Laughable.

BS? I just used your own tactic. You don't like the way someone replies when using your own tactic? Yup, sounds like guilt to me.

Ah yes, and there it is folks. Finally, she says some truth. Morality standards should be set by courts and government. Faith should never be respected or defended. In fact, all you who exercise your religious faith and freedom of speech should be investigated and jailed for your faith. There we go Holly. Thanks for finally being open. We all know the courts decision always trumps the freedom of religion even though our founders died for it.

Liberal pigs don't live in reality. They live in the communist/socialist dream world that you make out to be perfection. There is no excuse for your interruption and you have no grasp on reality. To you a baby is a byproduct of pleasure and not a precious life and gift from God. You support discarding them from your body as if they are yesterday's food just because you can. Just disgusting.

@Jane Aitken: Correction. Oops, the Tea Party endorsed Kelly Ayotte (http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/tea-party-group-s-ayotte-endorsement-signals-the-coming-conservative-divide-20101025) and so did Sarah Palin, the voice of the Tea Party.

She won over a very good conservative, Ovide, in THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY and blew out Hodes in the ELECTION. There is no shame in that.

What the heck does NDAA have to do with anything in my discussion? Who the heck cares if she has been recognized with great potential to lead people? Again, how is any of this relevant to my discussion?

Ah yes, now there is a real tea party and a fake tea party. this is getting so ridiculous. It doesn't matter how many votes she won by. She won. Period. NDAA may be problematic for you personally. Good that is your freedom, but you do not define the Tea Party.

@ Jane: Sorry you haven't burst anything. Nobody cares about the way you want to define Tea Party according to your technicality. Nobody cares that you claim "We" as being the authorized representative of the Tea Party lol. The fact is that Ayotte was the Tea Party favorite even endorsed by Sarah Palin. Hate to burst your bubble, but those are the facts.

Further, nobody cares who you claim will or will not be represented by the party you seem to be taking control of. lol I didn't know you were the official representative for the national party with great authority. lol. yup ok. Tea Partiers come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. If you want to force people into your definition of what they should be, you will just end up as corrupt as any other party. Thanks for proving my points.

Insofar as they have Political contributions, Republican candidates as keynote speakers, and a whole lot of right-wing pandering, it's safe to say they are a party. They just happen to be hijacking the Republican Party because they are easy to influence with hatred and bigotry. You could say they have a lot in common.