Sununu: Fire Gonzales, Not Me

Well, looks like Senator John Sununu (R-New Hampshire) has finally decided to try and save his skin by asking for the firing of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over the attorney firing scandal.

Sununu is perhaps the most vulnerable Senator in 2008. He won 51%-48% in a controversial campaign against Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in 2002, a Republican year, and he was the only vulnerable Republican to vote in favor of the troop surge.

So far Sununu has yielded two Democratic challengers. Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchant and Katrina Swett, the wife of former Democratic congerssman Dick Swett of New Hampshire and the daughter of Congressman Tom Lantos (D-California). Last year Republicans were slaughtered in New Hampshire, losing the Governor's race in a 74%-26% landslide, losing control of the Executive Council and the State Legislature for the first time in over a century, and seeing both GOP Congressmen defeated. Sununu must know if he was running for reeleciton in 2006, he would've went down too. I don't know how Marchant and Swett are polling against Sununu, but perhaps Sununu knows and that's why he's decided to come to his senses today.

UPDATE: Here is the text of Sununu's speech