4 November 2009 - Granite Grok

November 4, 2009

Thoughts on NY-23

I think Michelle Malkin sums it up well: Here is one of the loudest messages of the 2009 off-off-year elections: Conservatives in America will no longer let their opponents define them out of the mainstream. They will not submit to Democrats. Or to the media. Or to Beltway Republican capitulationists. They will not “rebrand.” They …

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The Importance of Primaries

The results of election night 2009 are a cause for great celebration for both the Republican Party and more importantly the cause of limited government conservatism. At the same time, the night’s most significant blemish, the loss of Doug Hoffman in the 23rd congressional district of New York, demonstrates an important fact. Primaries matter.   …

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Scuttlebutt

  Jack Kimball, Lynne Blankenbeker, Shannon Shutts work Merrimack District 11 polls on Election Day All in all, it was a pretty good day for Republicans in yesterday’s "off-year" elections. With success in two major governorships nationally, and victories for smaller government candidates and the Manchester spending cap here in the Granite State, there is …

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Manchester: A shining beacon for the rest of the country

  Guest post by Bill Wilson Call it a conservative conundrum. Taxpayers who went to the polls last night are clearly outraged by a year filled with massive financial bailouts; the nationalization of the banking, mortgage, and auto industries; and proposed takeover of the energy and health care industries. On their way out of polling …

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Mike Pence (R-IN) on the House healthcare bill

Here is Mike Pence on the newly-released Pelosi healthcare "reform" plan seeking a government-takeover of the industry, courtesy of the Washington News Observer: "The Pelosi Health Care Bill has emerged, and it’s just another version of their government run health insurance plan that’s a freight train of bureaucracy and mandates and taxes. And it’s just …

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