It is a time of choosing - Granite Grok

It is a time of choosing

More and more, I see this sentiment boiling up from those “in the movement”.  More and more, they are feeling used (“thanks for 2010, now go away)

If Republicans were as concerned as they say with winning in 2014 and 2016, the GOP establishment in Washington would get out of the way and let the grassroots work the same magic it did in 2010. Instead they are doing everything in their power to make conservatives, their most reliable base of support, shut up and sit down. This is a colossal mistake that will lead to the Democrats retaining control of the Senate in 2014. It may lead to the end of the Republican Party.

The ruling class in Washington, on both sides of the aisle, has spent generations developing a system where the American people are largely uninvolved, and therefore politicians can absolve themselves of responsibility for most any legislation or problems that may arise with legislation. The ruling class is very happy with this status quo.

Conservatives want to change the way Washington works and make all representatives more responsive to the will of the American people. Accountability is the very last thing the ruling class on either side of the aisle wants to accept, and the conservative movement has sometimes shown the muscle to force it upon them. For that, the establishment GOP will partner with the progressive Democrats to do their best to cleanse conservative principles from Washington.

They feel they have been betrayed by those that lipsync the right words, but then act contrary to that.  One only has to see what is going on here in NH with Medicaid Expansion – yet another yielding of State sovereignty to the Federal concentration of power, the expanded intrusiveness of Government, the expansion of Federal regulations overriding that of NH, and the additional enlargement and costs.

The question will be, will the Back To Real Basics movement (Conservatives, TEA Party, 9/12ers, Libertarians, Constitutionalists, and others wanting our Constitutional Republic back) become dispirited, sit on their hands, and no longer vote?    How would this affect NH all by itself?  What does the NH GOP think of the above?  It takes very little, just a few votes either way, to lose.  So, who holds the power?

Or redouble their efforts?  After all, dollars can only get a message out – not votes.  The Back to Real Basics folks, well, their message has already been locked in.

BTW, GRTWT

 

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