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Great, Just What We Need, More Anti-Republican Crap

May 6, 2013

When I first announced the return of GrokTALK! a few weeks ago, in pursuit of likely guests, the very first response I got on my status update from a Republican Facebook page was, “Great, just what we need, more anti-Republican crap.” In some respects yes, but not because the objects of our remarks happen to “claim” to be Republicans.  It would be a result [ Read more ]

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GrokTALK! Snippets–Segment Four: Ellen Kolb on Life, Religious Liberty, And The Pursuit of Media Responsibility

April 14, 2013

In the Fourth and final Segment of this weeks podcast Skip and Steve talk with longtime New Hampshire life Advocate Ellen Kolb about the HHS mandate, the GOP and Social Issues, Kermit the Killer Gosnell, the missing media, Planned Parenthood and more. Due to a technical problem the first few minute of this segment were [ Read more ]

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GrokTALK! Snippets–Segment Three: Former State Senator Gary Lambert and the GOP Autopsy

April 14, 2013

In Segment Three of this weeks podcast Skip and Steve speak with Marine Col. Gary Lambert, former State Senator from Nashua, about the GOP Growth Opportunity Project, also known as the GOP Autopsy Report. Due to a technical problem this segment was cut short. The full April 13th podcast is available here . If you [ Read more ]

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A warning to the GOP….Grow or Die

March 17, 2013

NRA President, David Keene, hits the nail square on the head when he says that the Republican Party MUST change, if it plans to survive. He calls Rand Paul a “hero to grassroots Republicans” and John McCain an “aging former Presidential candidate of the old establishment”. Are you listening, Senator Ayotte?  You should (you were [ Read more ]

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And now the US House Leadership wants to run roughshod over its caucus too?

March 10, 2013

The opening line from Instapundit that caught my eye: IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE TEA PARTY BECOME A TRUE THIRD PARTY, THIS IS HOW TO BRING IT ABOUT: Indeed – and the Republican Party elites will only have themselves to blame.  If Republican Leadership thinks that it has a lock on the Right of [ Read more ]

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Hypocrisy…the Duality in ‘Americur

March 10, 2013

Drones in the Middle East, drones on American soil, Libya coup d’etat support, Egypt insurgency weapons support, Syria coup support. Sounds like the first term of Mephistopheles himself (Dick Cheney), right? The American Left has no soul.  Period.  Watching some of the reaction to Rand Paul’s filibuster last week, it is now perfectly clear that [ Read more ]

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Rand Paul as Shakespeare’s “Henry V”!

March 10, 2013

Chris Muir in Day By Day Cartoons, nails the Rand Paul filibuster spot-on:

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Branding: “Nobody…seemed to consider the possibility that taxes should not go up!”

February 25, 2013

That was from Grokster Mike’s post that was riffing off of mine on my “ire” on how NH Republicans in the NH House voted to raise the gas tax via HB617 (emphasis mine): Riffing off Skip’s piece on the gas tax, I happened to walk into a thinly attended local GOP meeting last night – [ Read more ]

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SB 0120 – Let’s name the names, shall we? Jeb Bradley (R), Sharon Carson (R), Bob Odell (R), Shawn Jasper (R), Gary Richardson (D)

February 4, 2013

Let me get this off my chest: I am now ashamed that GraniteGrok, Meet the New Press (our former radio show), and I, did all we could to help Jeb Bradley, the prime sponsor of this Act, beat “Bathroom Bud” Martin in that special election that seems so long ago.  I was told he was [ Read more ]

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Black Swan: Obama’s actions created the TEA Party. Is the Establishment Old Guard Republicans are about to be black swanned?..

February 4, 2013

“ if you aren’t going to do what you say you would, we can no longer trust you“ I am beginning to think so.  Certainly here in NH during the last two election cycles, the enmity between what I would call the Old Guard Establishment (e.g., “I’m a Republican because…..I’m a Republican” and “who the [ Read more ]

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Very good Right side political advice from two great bloggers

January 7, 2013

Any time that an Establishment rumpswab starts in on you about TEA Party candidates, remember the words of Prof. Jacobson: If we had followed the establishment advice, we would not have Ted Cruz in office  Ted Cruz was the insurgent Tea Party – supported candidate running against the more establishment David Dewhurst.  If we followed [ Read more ]

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A very ugly autopsy on the Romney campaign…

December 16, 2012

…and a very angry critique of the Republican Party as it exists today, which states in part that…

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Morality – once again, Establishment Republicans are unmoored as to the reason we fail.

December 1, 2012

Any person who voted for Barack Obama for the express purpose of having him utilize the US tax and regulatory apparatus to take money away from the rich and give it to them personally, is the moral equivalent of a bank robber. Neither I, nor any other person alive, is entitled to two red cents [ Read more ]

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I agree with this.

November 29, 2012

Notable Quote, from Daniel Henninger in today’s Wall Street Journal, “The Racializing of American Politics”: Republicans should start growing their share of the electorate by doing a better job of…

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Why we must all vote for Romney (unpleasant as it may be): An explanation….

September 4, 2012

As promised, I now turn to explaining why every clear-thinking Liberty and Freedom (“L&F”) activist and onlooker must vote for Romney. But first…

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Yes, we in the Liberty and Freedom movement must vote for Romney….

September 1, 2012

  However, what follows—and which prominently features New Hampshire’s John Sununu—is NOT the reason we must vote for Romney. Yet the fact is…we should. We must fight statism everywhere, because it is  everywhere…including inside the highest reaches of the Republican Party. As Ann Coulter has said, “there are plenty of bad Republicans, but there are no good Democrats.” [ Read more ]

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Is the GOP Headed for Implosion?

August 16, 2012

House Speaker John Boehner took part in an interview with Fox News this week and one of the topics, invariably, was VP-pick, Paul Ryan.  During the interview, Greta Van Susteren challenged Boehner about Ryan’s votes for TARP, the auto bailouts, and two 2008 stimulus programs, asking how, as a Conservative, he politically “sells that”. Boehner [ Read more ]

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Mysterious Folder Conundrum

August 13, 2012

Suppose you fall in love with someone who is good looking, well groomed, and has lots of potential.  Let’s say you two lovebirds decide to get married.  Giddiness and joy all around…congratulations. One day, you are at the supermarket, casually buying grapes (so you can feed them to your love, like they do in the [ Read more ]

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“In the long run, the GOP is dead.”

July 27, 2012

That’s what it looks like, says Pat Buchanan in the current Human events. For instance, in California, the most populous state in the U.S., “the GOP does not hold a single statewide office. It gained not a single House seat in the 2010 landslide. Party registration has fallen to 30 percent of the California electorate [ Read more ]

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HCRC Flag Day Picnic – Paul Westcott

June 10, 2012

Today was the Hillsborough County Republican Committee Flag Day Picnic.  The event, held at the Alpine Grove in Hollis, was a tremendous success, with a long list of speakers.  I’m not going to break them all out into individual posts but I will post several.  For those looking for the entire event it will be [ Read more ]

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Obama Woz Here – Our President Inserted into History!

May 25, 2012

From Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro- You can’t make this stuff up – Obama has a very good imagination already! The White House website has always featured biographies of past presidents…….. Now, however, President Obama has decided that those other presidential biographies weren’t complete without a sentence about him. Seriously. As it turns out, all past presidents [ Read more ]

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Pam Tucker: New Hampshire’s answer to Sarah Palin?

April 8, 2012

In one week the New Hampshire Republican Party will hold its annual meeting. At that meeting the members of the Republican State Committee will vote on various matters, including the election of two members to the Republican National Committee (RNC) from New Hampshire. The winners of the two elections—one man and one woman—will sit on [ Read more ]

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New Hampshire L&F Republicans to Democrats and other socialists: “We’re here, we’re clear, get used to it.”

February 18, 2012

One of the largest groups within the New Hampshire GOP is the “Liberty and Freedom” or “L&F” Republicans. This increasingly vocal and effective sub-coalition includes  movement conservatives, libertarian conservatives, free enterprisers, TEA Partiers, and yes, social conservatives. What each group has is common is the crucial centrality of individual liberty versus ever-growing government power.

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Palin Rocks CPAC

February 12, 2012

No one speaks to the base like Sarah Palin does, so I’ll stop typing and let her start talking.  

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“The debate in the Republican Party should be between the conservatives and the libertarians.”

February 10, 2012

So says Sen. Jim DeMint, and he’s right. Here’s why Republicans must become more libertarian.

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