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Especially if you consider yourself being part of the “responsible, pragmatic” wing of the Party as you contemplate why, why, WHY your candidates are tanking; you have brought us upon yourselves:

Thanks to Donald Trump, American elites are finally paying attention to blue-collar, white America. They do not like what they see. Racist. Bigoted. Irrational. Angry. How many times have you read or heard one or more of these words used to describe Trump’s followers? Whether they are the academic, media, and entertainment elites of the Left or the political and business elites of the Right, America’s self-appointed best and brightest uniformly view the passions unleashed by Trump as the modern-day equivalent of a medieval peasants’ revolt. And, like their medieval forebears, they mean to crush it.

That effort is both a fool’s errand for the country and a poisoned chalice for conservatives and Republicans. It is foolish because the reasons the peasants are revolting will not fade easily. Ignoring and ridiculing their concerns, the way European elites have done with their own electorates for most of the last two decades, will simply intensify the masses’ rage and ensure that their political spokesmen become more intransigent and radical. If you want an American version of Marine Le Pen tomorrow, ignore the legitimate concerns of blue-collar Americans today.

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Emphasis mine:

“Obama stressed the need for executive gun control as a way to lessen “mass violence” in America, and he coupled the emphasis on “mass violence” with a need to expand background checks–as if doing the latter will reduce the former.

But Limbaugh was not fooled, and he pointed out five things Obama’s gun controls will not stop:

1. Obama’s executive gun controls will not stop the “mass violence” he railed against. Limbaugh pointed to comments made during the town hall to prove this, saying:

[Obama] admitted [the executive gun control] solves no problems, and he agreed and admitted with everybody who pointed out that every executive action he is talking about implementing would not have stopped any of these recent attacks. And he admits that, too. He admits that his executive actions on guns would not stop terrorism, that they wouldn’t stop the shootings in Chicago.

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This may get interesting – the master of the media and celebrityhood vs the number one debater: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.  Certainly, anyone that catches The Donald’s ire and has tried to fire back has dropped in the polls like the proverbial lead balloon (seeing that none of them have the Mythbuster’s lead balloon that actually floated).  Now that Ted has caught and surpassed him in Iowa (mostly, during the last month), the Trump cross-hairs were re-focused and the onslaught began.  Up to now, Ted’s been fairly lighthearted with his comebacks; this one get a wee bit deeper in the calling out of Cruz’s birth circumstances (born of an American mother in Calgary, Canada):

(CRUZ): I will say that it’s more than a little strange to see Donald relying on as authoritative a liberal, left-wing, judicial activist Harvard Law professor who is a huge Hillary supporter (Ed. note – Laurence Tribe). It starts to make you think, “Gosh, why are some of Hillary’s strongest supporters backing Trump?” You know, the last couple of elections the Democrats have gotten the nominee they wanted to run against in the general election. It seems the Hillary folks are very eager to support Donald Trump and the attacks that are being tossed my direction.

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“The NH Progressive has the unique habit of cursing New Hampshire while they enjoy the quality of life directly attributable to its population and culture.”

Recently I happened upon a delightful opinion piece in one of the local daily papers that epitomizes the mindset of that particular virulent form of Leftist called the ‘New Hampshire Progressive’. This article is replete with the holy trinity of Progressivism; anti-gun, anti-Christian and anti-white. It serves as an excellent example of what I term ‘progressive porn’ which has unfortunately become more and more pervasive in the NH media as of late. It also contains the typical mudslinging and unsubstantiated allegations that one has come to expect from the extremist Left in our country. However the article exhibits something more, it reveals the ugly face of the ‘New Hampshire Progressive’. This letter is blatantly defamatory toward white Christian males painting them as the central cause of mass incidents of gun violence. Strangely enough the author happens to live in a predominantly white, Christian and overwhelmingly Pro-Second Amendment state. I can only imagine the burden she must be enduring to live in such a hell on earth.

Behold the words of the New Hampshire Progressive in all its glory;

Thank you, President Obama for your bold move through executive orders to try to put some sanity into our gun laws. As we have heard from every president in recent history, Republican and Democrat alike, a president’s most important role as chief executive is to secure the safety and well-being of the citizens of this country. You have just taken a step in that direction. It is time for Congress to act by backing and going beyond what you have initiated.

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This is funny as all get out! Earlier this First In The Nation Primary season, the Democrat National Committee kicked WMUR to the curb over the inability of the Hearst Corporation (owners of WMUR) to come to terms with their unions.  UL, batter up?  Nope – yer OUTTA there!

ABC dumps Union Leader; Trump claims credit

MANCHESTER — Donald Trump immediately took credit for getting the New Hampshire Union Leader dropped from an upcoming Republican debate being produced in partnership with ABC News, drawing condemnation from the paper’s publisher. “I am pleased to announce that I had the Union Leader removed from the upcoming debate,” Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon, minutes after the newspaper was told by an ABC News executive they were going to “split ways.”

The debate, scheduled for Feb. 6 from the campus of St. Anselm College, is the only time Republicans will meet head-to-head in the Granite State.

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This Sunday’s version of This Week with George Stephanopoulus had this absolutely clarifying snippet of why the Establishment Republican “aren’t getting it”.  US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is the highest elected Republican in the US – one would think that he would as least acknowledge that the base is ticked and that perhaps, perhaps, the Party ought to be listening to it.  So I was rather startled (ok, maybe not so much – almost expected it) his answer.

Steph: You see Donald Trump at the top of the primary field. Senator Cruz has called you a liar. Trump has accused you and Speaker Ryan of gross incompetance. They seem to be tapping into a real anger at the Republican leadership out there in the country. What does it say to you that they are the front runners of the race right now

McConnell: It says that we ought to do our work that the American people were elected us to do and let the Presidential race play out.

Umm, no.  Again, it reinforces what I (and many others) have been saying – I think you have that exactly backwards: you have brought Trump (& Cruz) upon you yourselves.  Here it is, starkly – the insurgents (e.g., Trump, Cruz, and to a lesser degree, Fiorina) are succeeding BECAUSE the truth is the OPPOSITE of what McConnell said.

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It COULDN’T be those millions of military aged Muslim men, could it?  After all, they MUST have as much respect for our Western mores, our culture(s), and our way of life, right?  Why ELSE would they have left their home countries, their families, their wives, and their children?  Andrew McCarthy, a respected security expert, over at National Review has a take on those questions – here’s his real take (longish) on the issue:

Truth being the first casualty of war, it was left to Henriette Reker, the fantasy Islam–drenched mayor of Cologne, to blame the victims for their ordeal. Such assaults could be prevented, she declaimed, if German women adopted a “code of conduct” tailored to the new, multi-culti Deutschland.

In the spirit of multiculturalism, I have such a code just off the shelf (on which rests The Grand Jihad, in which I outlined it a few years back). It goes like this:

To be absolved from guilt, the raped woman must have shown some sort of good conduct . . . Islam addresses women to maintain their modesty, so as not to open the door for evil . . . The Koran calls on Muslim women in general to preserve their dignity and modesty, just to save themselves from any harassment. So for a rape victim to be absolved from guilt, she must not be the one that opens . . . her dignity for deflowering.

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Yup, an incipient Soup Car Nazi; SeacoastOnline has an article dealing with the idea of changing their housing ordinances to allow micro-apartments.  These are gaining traction in really high cost cities (San Fran, NYC) where lack of space, land use regulation and rent-subsidies have artificially put a distortion that has resulted in extremely high rents on those places on the open market.  Sufficiently high that it has forced low income and “workforce” folks out of the local markets.  So the idea of “micro apartments” was born – 250 to 350 square feet and at “reasonable prices”.  In other words, a space equal to some folks’ walk-in closets.  But Portsmouth (NH) thinks it needs this idea (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

PORTSMOUTH – City Councilor Eric Spear wants the city to look into putting micro-apartments for workforce housing at the Parrott Avenue parking lot. “Ever since I’ve been on the council we’ve been trying to get workforce housing for a number of years,” Spear said this week. “We’ve had good intentions but we haven’t had success.” Portsmouth residents or people who work in the downtown have been frustrated by the lack of success, Spear said, and by considering the idea of putting micro-apartments at the city-owned parking lot, officials can get the discussion started.

“Rather than wait interminably for a developer to come in sometimes you have to take leadership on an issue,” Spear said.

Er, maybe

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Just saw this at the Boston Globe – am REALLY surprised (because of their very liberal slant) they even printed it.  But given the absolute vitriol that the Left has for folks like me, I’ve put that Letter to the Editor here (reformatted, emphasis mine):

When I boarded the commuter rail, you were already in the midst of a spirited phone conversation and didn’t seem to care about how loud you were talking. You were talking with someone about the Paris train attack and the growing epidemic of gun violence in America.  You spoke about the “murderous NRA” and “bloodthirsty gun nuts” who were causing our schools to “run red with blood.” You spoke profanely of the Republicans who opposed President Obama’s call for “sensible gun control,” and you lamented the number of “inbred redneck politicians” who have “infiltrated Capitol Hill.”

When the Left talks about tolerance, that is what they do – belittle, dehumanize, and describe those that disagree with them in the most derogatory terms.

I found myself amazed at the irony of the situation.

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So if you are a SJW or multiculturalism booster, keep surfing on, because we don’t care if you are offended.  I’m tired that we can’t laugh at ourselves and others anymore and that y’all spoiled comedy because of it:

Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport lounge in Bozeman,
Montana , awaiting their flights. One is an American Indian, passing
through from Lame Deer.  Another is a cowboy on his way to Billings for a livestock show. And the
third is a fundamentalist Arab student from the Middle East, newly arrived
at Montana State University.

Their discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Soon, the two
Westerners learn that the Arab is a devout, radical Muslim and the
conversation falls into an uneasy lull.

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Steve’s post is talking about the dark underbelly of the “refugee” invasion that Germany’s Prime Minister Angela Merkel both condoned and welcomed – how else was Germany to fill those 1 million jobs for which there were no Germans to fill? It alludes to both the self-deception that the EU is experiencing as well as the almost complete media blackout on the bad “collateral damage” that is being hoisted upon the common folks. C’mon in, we got the light on fer ya.  And come they did.  And given the absolute political correctness that passes for normality in the EU, NO one was to criticize these Muslims coming in the Middle East or North Africa.  Assimilation?  You RACIST – how DARE you say anything bad!

Or that’s been the mantra as I’ve watched this mass migration of mostly single, military aged men basically be an invasion force.  Were they grateful for being given refuge from their war-torn hellholes?  No – I’ve already blogged about their behavior, screaming at the European women that were acting as aid workers, food thrown away and demands for their “own food” shouted, and complaints made about almost everything.

And then the blinkers fell off on New Year’s Eve as these “refugees” turned the annual celebration in a misogynistic mauling of the native single ladies simply out to celebrate the holiday. You see,

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Hypocrite multiplied. Panderer Magnificent.  RedState:

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