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There Are No Republicans For Obama

There are no Republicans for ObamaBack in 2008, and I may have shared this story before, I was discussing with a longtime friend my conclusion that then candidate John McCain was not really a ‘Republican.’  He could not understand why so I asked my baptist minister friend…”there are a lot of ‘interpretations’ of Christianity, and for the most part each is reasonably accepting of the others…but isn’t there a point at which what it is they are “practicing” is no longer Christianity?”  He said yes.  I said, “OK, same with being a “Republican.”

Believing in abortion, global warming, stifling paid political speech (to name a few) and…most importantly, the very strong belief that the federal government must regulate things from a central location, to mandate policy to the states and the people from on high….that is what progressives and socialists do, no matter what they call themselves.  That is not what it means to be a Republican.  We have a different party for people who think that way.  They are called Democrats.

But this serves as no barrier to entry.  You can register with any party you want, even run for office and get elected.  And let us not forget that the left operates by infiltrating institutions and rotting them out form the inside.  They do this on purpose.  And then there are the well meaning Republicans who go to Washington DC and get infected with the Georgetown flu.  They become progressives through constant exposure to the progressive culture of DC but never change their political label.

That happens in State capitals and in local towns and counties as well.  There will always be people who think they know better what is best for you and your family, and will use the force of law to enact their will upon you.

Here in New Hampshire, we’ve long had to cope with the waves of progressives that sweep up from Massachusetts thinking that they might be Republicans but who then vote like Democrats, either because they are Democrats or simply have no idea what it means to be a real Republican.

Let’s keep it as simple as we can.  To be a Republican you have to believe (at the very least) in individual liberty.  You must support and defend, first and foremost–before the state, the county or the town–this basic idea of freedom; the right to yourself, your labor, and the expression of property that extends from that labor, as well as your preeminent right to decide how best to use it.

We could list one-hundred things Obama believes that are incompatible with being a Republican but we need go no further than property rights and rule of law.    There is nothing in the Obama tool box that supports or defends the right to individual property or the right of the individual who earned it, to protection from the government.  There are also no legal guarantees to your property or to contracts, or to your right to own and operate a legal business under Obama and the Democrats.

To Obama and Democrats in general, property is a right that exists because of the government, and is extended to you by the government, and lasts only as long as the government sees no other need for it.  Law is no barrier.  Contracts are no barrier.  To Obama and the Democrat Party the government has the power to alter any and all legal arrangements to suit its agenda at its whim.

You didn’t build that.  The idea that when the government does not seize your legally acquired property (by not taxing it) they have done you a favor.  Screwing bond holders, shutting down car dealerships, picking and choosing winners and losers (which in Obama’s case all turned out to be losers).  The massive accumulation of trillions in debt…money (property) spent by the government that no one has even earned yet.  It goes on and on.  To Obama, and Democrats and progressives of all stripes, like ‘Republicans for Obama, ‘ you do not even have a right to your own person.  You exist to serve their needs, by force if necessary.  There is nothing before the government while these people rule.

These ideas are incompatible with Republicanism.  You cannot support them and retain claim to being a Republican.  You are something else.

So regarding the list of 100 current or former Republicans for Obama in New Hampshire let me remind everyone…there is nothing that Mr. Obama believes or stands for that is compatible with the Republican Platform (state of national).   And while these folks are free to call themselves whatever they like, they have reached a point at which what they are “practicing” politically, is no longer ‘Republican.’

There are no “Republicans for Obama,” only former Republicans.  But thanks for letting us know who they are (not that we didn’t already know a few of them already.)

 

The list of current or former Republicans for Obama in New Hampshire: (Emphasis from Nashua Patch)

Michael Adamkowski, Haverhill

Janis Ahern, Plymouth

Ken Asai, Merrimack

Susan Ayer, Concord

Scott Baetz, Windham

David Batchelder, Alexandria

Irene Belanger, Goffstown

Gerald Bernier, Nashua

Kenneth Berry, Exeter

John Birknes, Bretton Woods

Anna Bluhm, Goffstown

Winthrop Brown, Fitzwilliam

Wilbur Buchanan, Gilmanton

Elizabeth Burnell, Derry

Ben Butler, New London

Tracey Casey, Greenland

Hilary Cleveland, New London

James Cobleigh, Nashua

Marie Connerty, Merrimack

Thomas Conway, Hampton

Sally Crateau, Strafford

Clifton Crosby, Bethlehem

Steven Custance, Holderness

Katherine Diaz, Raymond

Andre Dusseault, Concord

Jacquelyn Eliasberg, Concord

Charles Elwarner, Merrimack

Lloyd Farnham, Concord

David Finley, Bedford

Hugh Fossum, Goffstown

Durwood French, Henniker

Elaine French, Littleton

Beverly Gale, Dover

Gerry Gan, Nashua

Kathleen Gavin, Keene

Bernie Geaghan, Salem

Annie Gehring, Sanbornville

Joyce Gosse, Henniker

Richard Greene, Goshen

George Hehir, Plymouth

Judy Horne, Nashua

Tamsen Howes, Acworth

Michael Hujsak, Amherst

Granvyl Hulse, Colebrook

John Iffland, Bow

Michael Joanis, Windham

Janet Johnson, Berlin

Michael Jurnak, Bedford

Kathleen Kopala, Hampton

Roula Kottaridis, Dover

Harriet Kraybill, Bow

Jane Labelle, Newton

Ronald Lacroix, Bow

Vanessa Langley, Goffstown

Donna Limoli, Derry

John Limoli, Derry

Patricia Lynn, Bow

Mary Major, New London

Francis Marcellino, Concord

Gail Marvin, Hillsborough

Cynthia McKenna, Nashua

John Mendes, Exeter

Gloria Michaud, Dover

Marie Miller, Bristol

Nancy Mitchell, Nashua

Matt Morrison, Derry

Maxine Morse, Portsmouth

Gail Morse, Exeter

Leon Morse, Exeter

Renai Mountain, Newport

Barbara Munson, Hanover

Nancy Nichols, New London

Kevin Paige, Manchester

Karen Parker, Claremont

Tammy Perron, Salem

Bertram Pickess, Franklin

James Pilliod, Belmont

Robert Porter, Claremont

Gary Powers, North Haverhill

Gary Reed, Epping

Thomas Richardson, Durham

Charlene Roche, Barrington

Edward Russell, Swanzey

Sen. Rick Russman, Kingston

Charles Schul, Marlborough

Augustine Sheedy, Derry

Joyce Spiegel, Manchester

Curtis Springer, Danville

Andy Stahly, Londonderry

James Starke, Amherst

Roberta Stout, Portsmouth

William Strouss, North Hampton

Sheri Tabor-Alvi, Nashua

Betty Valliere, Center Barnstead

Kye Watson, Portsmouth

Catherine Whooten, Goffstown

Patty Withington, Canaan

Florence Wyman, Orford

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