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Alicia Preston has an Op-Ed in the UL today (“Another View — Alicia Preston: I’m finally #NowTrump because I’m #NeverHillary“) talking about why she will now vote for Donald Trump.  In part, this caught my eye:

…I remembered two years ago how I tried to convince friends who were unhappy with Scott Brown as our nominee for U.S. Senate that they were wrong to support a third-party candidate or simply not vote; that the alternative was not better than Scott, and that no message is being sent, we’ll simply lose to the Democrats. (Which we did.)…

Well, if one puts winning as the only piece of the puzzle, being a Republican Republican for the sake of the Republican Party, well, she’s right and she makes the premise that if one is a Republican, only winning is important.  Sorry, that doesn’t cut it because “Winning is only a precursor; what is most important is what you do afterwards” and what Alicia wants us to swallow is that anything is ok – that winning “flushes away” any Democrat-lite actions or totally ignoring the Republican platform altogether

Sidenote: Really?  Ignoring that Republicans have instituted new taxes, bigger government, and Obamacare here in NH while making political speech harder here in NH, Alicia?  That’s OK?

So as far as that “we’ll simply lose to the Democrats” part is concerned, it brings this back to mind:

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We have lost the government we learned about in civics class, with its democratic election of representatives to do the voters’ will in framing laws, which the president vows to execute faithfully, unless the Supreme Court rules them unconstitutional. That small government of limited powers that the Founders designed, hedged with checks and balances, hasn’t operated for a century. All its parts still have their old names and appear to be carrying out their old functions. But in fact, a new kind of government has grown up inside the old structure, like those parasites hatched in another organism that grow by eating up their host from within, until the adult creature bursts out of the host’s carcass. This transformation is not an evolution but a usurpation.

From a longish post on how the Progressives have subverted the Constitutional philosophy of self-Government – I highly suggest that you all go read it. As you do so, consider the other half of “self-government” – the ability for each one of us how to conduct our own “Pursuit of Happiness” or self  government – as in our own daily lives in making our own decisions of what is best for ourselves.  Once again, I ask “Is there any area of your life in which Government has not already decided (and therefore, limited) what it is that you can choose for yourself?  Emphasis mine:

What has now largely displaced the Founders’ government is what’s called the Administrative State—a transformation premeditated by its main architect, Woodrow Wilson. The thin-skinned, self-righteous college-professor president, who thought himself enlightened far beyond the citizenry, dismissed the Declaration of Independence’s inalienable rights as so much outmoded “nonsense,” and he rejected the Founders’ clunky constitutional machinery as obsolete.

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Well, I guess Eric Estevez really out of this world – Here’s “The man out of this world” Eric Estevez campaigning on the moon for votes:

(H/T: Tom) And here’s the view from the other side:

(H/T: MikeS)  Hmm, “The man out of this world”.  I like that idea, so a question: anyone up for crowdfunding a campaign to keep him campaigning there – forever?  Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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Heh!  ROTFLMAO when I saw this – it FITS!  Why?

Advanced technology (er, Esteves’s MIT brain trust?), self-assured (incompetent), pompous (to the point of grating), and can’t shoot straight either. In the end, he loses every time.

Oh, and Looney Tunes is a great description as well.

(H/T: Nana)

Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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Guess they believe in personally living their beliefs like Al Gore does with global warming (e.g., living big with energy budgets and CO2 emissions that of a neighborhood of “regular” folks). First, let’s start with what “the folk” earn:

The U.S. Census Bureau reported in September 2014 that: U.S. real (inflation adjusted) median household income was $51,939 in 2013 versus $51,759 in 2012, statistically unchanged. In 2013, real median household income was 8.0 percent lower than in 2007, the year before the latest recession.

Well, there certainly seems to be, just like the “grievance industry”, there’s one for “income inequality (at least in academia):

UC Berkeley ‘income inequality’ experts earn more than $300,000 a year

Several UC Berkeley economics professors who support “income inequality” research each earn more than $300,000 a year, putting them in the top 2 percent of the public university’s salary distribution, according to a recent report by a nonpartisan California think tank. The report pointed out that the prominent scholars leading or advising the Cal Berkeley Center for Equitable Growth are richly compensated as professors, even as the center seeks to research ways to create economic growth that is “fairly shared,” the center’s website states.

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To set the stage: NH Constitution, articles 2A and 10:

[Art.] 2-a. [The Bearing of Arms.] All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.

[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

And it was a very positive one! Simply gobsmacked that they printed it all.  The ‘graphs that caught my eye (entire thing after the jump):

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Well, is it only a matter of time that what befell the Old Man in the Mountain will happen to Eric Estevez during his Estevez for Congress campaign and our for Estevez for the Restevus?  Just a broken man, a pile of rubble?

Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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We may forget, but never these folks!

(H/T: K C)

Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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Ah yes, yet another missive from the Left complaining that the amount raised by property taxes here in NH should be paid by anyone other than by themselves.  While the original is after the jump, this Letter to the Concord Monitor quickly sums up their argument (reformatted, emphasis mine):

The writer cites a $250,000 house for sale in York, Maine, whose property tax is $2,000. He asserts that is not a low property tax and that Maine’s sales and income taxes don’t hold down property taxes.  I checked my 2016 Concord property tax bill and that same house would be taxed $6,835 in Concord – 3.4 times the York tax.  For a retired couple living on $40,000 per year, the York tax would be 5 percent of their gross income; the Concord tax would be 17.08 percent of their income. The difference of $4,835 would pay for the heat, utilities and insurance on their house for a year, with enough left over for an occasional pizza.

Well, if John is arguing that his property tax is too high, well, I’d agree with him.  His math is probably right, so I’ll hand that to him as well.  What I WON’T do, however,

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“…Clinton and her liberal supporters believe the First Amendment to the Constitution must be curtailed to eliminate protections on certain speech.”

This is what Betty Tamposi now believes in.  Curtailment of one of the bedrock freedoms we have here in America.  This is the price she is willing to bear for defeating Trump?  Once again, let me remind our readers that Republican scion, Betty Tamposi, has gone all in on the idea that the only way to save the Republican Party (from The Donald) is to embrace, fawn over, and to become a bootlicker to a person that would wipe out the entire Republican Party if her broomstick wasn’t already in the pawn shop to pay for all the political favors she’s promised (c’mon Bill, ya gotta start giving those half million $$ speeches again!):

So, a few more words to Ms Clueless in her existential war to the US Constitution (and make NO mistake, supporting Hillary is endorsing the third (and,, gulp) and perhaps fourth term of the worst Constitutional President in history):

Democrats are fond of calling their Republican counterparts “extremists.” They’ve been deploying the charge since 2010 but, having lost control of the House, Senate, over 30 governorships, and 900 legislative seats in that period, they don’t seem inclined to revise this strategy. Rarely do Republicans reply in kind. When they do, it’s even rarer that the political press uncritically echoes the charge that Democrats have become too extreme for middle America. That is no boon for Democrats, though. The party that quite nearly chose a self-described socialist to lead it has lost all perspective. There may be no better example of that inclination than Hillary Clinton’s latest campaign promise—one that has been applauded by her fellow liberals: a constitutional amendment to restrict free speech.

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With my posts on Betty Tamposi, a reader just had to email this in (reformatted):

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When you quoted Tamposi about stepping on the accelerator I (almost) lost it.

Last summer I was on the DW highway in Nashua. As I was just coming up on exit 7-N.. In heavy traffic. A vehicle passed me at a high rate of speed from the second lane…with little space to spare.. It was a female and she had her cell phone at the 12 o’clock position on the steering wheel TEXTING or whatever. I seen the plate…right — a NH State plate.  I found out it was hers.

I began to write a letter to send her… I didn’t send it…darn it! I’m sure the NO TEXTING issue was out there. She must be special. I have no doubt she has and will continue with this dangerous practice. Hopefully she’ll be sighted & cited = $$$$$.

Thanks for letting me relive that episode

Rochester NH

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The Candidates edition! Is Eric Estevez, of the “Estevez for Congress” and “Estevez for the Restevus” playing footloose and fancy free with his campaign donations?  Making them seem to be larger than actual?  Is this why these other candidates, fearing a blowout by him (heh! In more ways than one?) and are deciding “on other arrangements”?  First, is Jack Flanagan, running against him in the primary – but with that Estevez sticker (H/T: Facebook via Kimberly)???

and then there is

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