NH GOP Leadership – Taking hostage of the NH GOP Platform continues!
Update: or maybe not the last one?
Update 11/10 – the Last One. For Won they didn’t. NOW, a week after the election, the NH GOP finally updated its platform…timely, very timely boys and gals. Ya think it was…..politically motivated? Couldn’t be, these pristine, white as the drifting snow, NH GOP Leaders we have – nothing but our best interest at heart (honest – their say-so says so!). Good lot it did in protecting your chosen top two, eh, from the vicissitudes of “personhood”. Oh, those “icky social issues that plague us so”. Except this time, those “social issues” bit you in the ass!
Why? Because real people that have real jobs and are trying to raise real families have to contend with the politicization of those social issues by the Democrats – and you told us you don’t care. What you said was that you don’t have the political cajones to stand up and fight for your base – so they rejected you. They realized that you craved the middle more than you did for them; that you disdain your base. You broke the Trust you didn’t realize you need. You sent the message – we listened. We actually listened.
You sounded like Democrats: against Conservatives, against the TEA Party values, against Pro-Life and against the Second Amendment. Holding back the changes to the NH GOP Platform was petty, self serving – and sent the message that you delighted in rubbing our noses in it. Obviously, all those high priced consultants got their money for their wrong advice – and for your money, you got the shaft from us for free. Satisfied? Stark and Langdon. Like I said here: “I will say that our John Stark for Governor and John Langdon was first done as a lark” but….
Imagine what might happen if we really got serious about this over the next two years?
Changing the perception of the voter paradigm – that it is too precious a thing to waste MY Vote on those that not only do not hold MY beliefs but actively campaign against them. Two years, folks, two years. Just imagine…
UPDATE 11/7: well, three days AFTER the Election, and the NH GOP now owns the NH House, NH Senate, and NH Executive Council (certainly numerically – fealty to NH GOP Principles yet to be determined but I feel pretty good about the last, pretty good about the first (depending on who becomes Speaker) and fairly pessimistic about how the Rogue Republicans in the NH Senate will behave themselves. But I digress.
Three days – and the NH GOP Platform has STILL not been updated. Let’s be blunt – any benefit that NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn or the rest of the vaunted brain trust over there that decided “WE HAVE TO PROTECT THE TOP OF THE TICKET from attack”! ended up misguided and stupid. Yeah, attacks from Democrats and unborn children – you know how deadly those diapers can be! I won’t even get into what those unborn children could do. No, there was no benefit at all – except it riled the base that, in retrospect, refused to vote for either one of them. A spectacular misfire that in trying to protect Walt Havenstein and Scott Brown (both publicly in favor of killing the unborn) – I bet there was quite a bit of underperforming in votes when the totality is considered. This was a self-inflicted wound – and a candidate killing move.
So now that the two political bodies have laid in state for the requisite length of time, will the pall bearers and the decision makers NOW get the Platform updated?
Update 11/3 – [Edit by Rep. Hoell] As I sit here the night before the election, reviewing emails from conservative friends and social media posts by others, I begin to wonder do the voters actually know what their candidates believe? Do the voters even know what the NHGOP stands for? Do the voters know that the published platform is OBSOLETE?
Tonight, I saw a email from a conservative republican all excited about the NHGOP platform [the obsolete one] and the issues that this individual cared about were written with stronger language in the new platform. I did not want to burst their bubble to let them know that the pro-life issues they cared about were being held hostage for some unknown reason.
So tomorrow, I will check the NHGOP website to see if the 45 day old platform, that has yet to crest the birth canal, is ready to be shared in the public. (I did not realize that putting together a 15 minute edit/merge of several documents required a 2 month gestation period.) I wonder how many votes for some of the top of the ticket offices are contingent on the NHGOP publishing their meeting minutes and platform from our convention back in September… Sad day for the children, sad day for the state, sad day for the nation. When hiding a pro-life platform is thought to be a wiser approach to governance. [end of edit]
Update 11/2 – Two days and the NH GOP has done exactly what I surmized – putting their candidates over their members (their base) which contains a lot of people for whom sanctifying abortion is a big deal. But, given the top of the ticket candidates are FOR abortion and the snuffing out of those new lives, the need for merely a WIN outpaces the expression of its base that pro-life is part of the NH GOP philosophy. We shall see if making that horse trade works for the short term – and how it really places for the long term. But let’s be clear, Havenstein, Brown, and NH GOP Jennifer Horn have given the middle finger by not updating the NH GOP Platform to a large part of their base – yet still demand their votes because “WIN”. They have not learned that
“winning is merely a precursor; what is of most important is what happens afterwards”.
This is a “sold my soul” moment. You can be sure of this, though…
Update 10/19 – Miss me yet? 29 days, still hostage. 14 days-no return call from Matt Mowers (or anyone else for that matter). Been busy but it hit me I have’t given the conservative base an update on this for a while – couldn’t let anyone think that the NH GOP Elite had finally done the right thing and actually took the 15 minutes needed to update the page.
Update 10/9 – 19 days, still hostage. 4 days – no return call from Matt Mowers. Talked again; Michael answered and said that Matt Mowers was unavailable, the Comms Dir was unavailable, and so was the webmaster. When asked, I did say it was about the NH GOP Platform and that I wanted to offer my services in volunteering to update the NH GOP Platform – after all, being a rather experienced blogger, I figure it would take me about 15-20 minutes. Michael said I would get a call back. I asked “like before”? (I don’t think that was appreciated).
Update 10/7 – 17 days, still hostage. 2 days – no return call from Matt Mowers (just called again – must be a time warp around the definition of “shortly”). Did get an email that seems to confirm: NH GOP only cares about the W and not about its delegates’ vote. More later.
UPDATE 10/5 – 15 days, still hostage. Guess the Leadership don’t care much about the meme that is splitting the Party – that the base doesn’t matter to them. So much for the campaign promise by NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn: “I promise to unite the Party”. Er, how is this promise going to be kept by this failure of not updating the Platform that “her other half” of the base voted for?
UPDATE 10/2 – 12 days, still hostage. Just called into NH GOP HQ; was told that Matt Mowers (NH GOP Exec Dir) was “unavailable. What is this in reference to? The NH GOP Platform. I will let him know”. So, he’s a good guy so I am sure that Matt will call back shortly.
UPDATE 9/30 – 10 days, status quo. I’m beginning to think this is due that the Establishment is disgusted & embarrassed by its base – how DARE they keep talking about SOCIAL ISSUES especially LIFE and FAMILY. Oh, the horror – the real stuff important to real people!
UPDATE 9/28 – 8 days and it still hasn’t been updated; I dryly note that the “last update” notice is still unchanged:
“The delegates of the New Hampshire Republican Party, in convention assembled, in Derry, NH, on September 29, 2012, pursuant to RSA 667: 21 I, do hereby adopt the foregoing Platform of Republican Principles.”
Now, Walt Havenstein has joined Scott Brown in publicly “distanced themselves from the updated plank“. It’s like, is the NH GOP Leadership so disdainful of what the base believes so as to make this unimportant?
UPDATE 9/26: 6 days and it still hasn’t been updated – and Scott Brown has publicly said he’s not gonna follow it.
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It’s missing in action! Last Saturday [9/20] was the annual NH GOP meeting where the newly elected delegates…
Sidenote: seemingly like former NH GOP Chair Fergus “The Fringe” Cullen, I dryly note that my Belknap County Chair / Area Vice-Chair Alan Glassman couldn’t get himself elected as a delegate. I also heard that he had a rather “interesting” reason for his loss to newcomer Barbara Comtois.
…after listening to the Illuminati of the Party for more than a spell of time, beat back attempts to weaken the NH GOP Platform with respect to “Traditional Family” values and abortion (here, here). In fact, the opposite of my fears (and the tremendously stupid and ham-fisted way that the meeting was handled in the beginning over Point of Order requests handled by NH GOP Jennifer Horn and the shutting off of the “audience mic” by Exec. Dir. Matt Mowers and Matt Mayberry), the meeting turned around when the Platform changes came up. So much so, that even the Washington Examiner made note of one of the changes (reformatted, emphasis mine):
New Hampshire Republican Party adds ‘personhood’ to official platform
The New Hampshire Republican Party amended its platform this weekend with stricter abortion provisions, including support for “personhood,”
which defines life as beginning at conception. Personhood has become a hot-button issue in Senate races across the country this year, such as Colorado, where Democrats have successfully attacked Rep. Cory Gardner for having supported such a measure in the past. Now, the issue could spread to New Hampshire, following the state party’s decision at its convention.
The platform now states: “Support the pre-born child’s fundamental right to life and personhood under the Fourteenth Amendment, and implement all Constitutional and legal protections.” It added: “Support a Life at Conception Act guaranteeing the protections of Life and Personhood to the pre-born under the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution.”
Life does start at conception when the mother’s and father’s DNA first intermix; that is new life that is the result (in the vast percentage of intercourse) of a positive decision to engage in such action. Thus, this is the result (as opposed to being a “consequence” that Democrat Obama thinks is such a bad thing). Life is supposed to be sacred, the union of two people, and to be cherished – and yes, even MORE cherished than mere education (re: Claremont decision over education funding here in NH).
So, having walked out early (I have another story to tell after this), I heard about this after the fact. Just now, four whole days AFTER the meeting, the website remains unchanged. It wouldn’t require all that much work – a half hour at the most even if one is dawdling about tapping the keys (after over 8,500 posts just here at the ‘Grok, I think I can be classified as an expert in putting up a few changes).
Or is the Establishment / Five Families so incensed about what its base did, they are severely (and purposefully) dawdling in just pulling up the website to make the change?
What is it, now Jennifer, that keeps it from being updated? Matt Mower?
Tell you what – if you can’t find the time to do timely updates, just outsource that upkeep to us! We’ll do it for FREE (even though, I shall remind you, one of Jennifer’s Chair campaign promises was to “fill the coffers” so they actually could afford to pay us – but consider it our contribution to the cause)! You can Trust us – we’re not like the others as we actually LIKE the Platform. No hanky-panky in updating that from us!
