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That’s what Steve and I yakked about during the GrokTALK! preshow this morning about this:

BREAKING. The DNC Goes To War Against Bernie Sanders And Vice Versa

Hillary Clinton disturbed to find information on an unsecured server can be stolen

Well, well – just like the hypocrites they are – it doesn’t matter if it is OTHER peoples wealth they hoover up to redistribute to others, but man oh man, they kick and scream if it is THEIR’S!   Heck, from my standpoint, all it was was a redistribution of data wealth – what’s the big deal?

Oh, it was YOUR’S, Hillary?  Reformatted, emphasis mine:

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From Chan, a ‘Grok friend, over Weekend Pundit:

Do they really think anyone will notice?

It appears the DNC has shot itself in the foot by booting New Hampshire’s biggest TV station – WMUR – from televising the Democrat debate scheduled to be held in the state because of an ongoing labor dispute with the union representing a number of TV station employees. But even if it weren’t banned from carrying the debate, I doubt many will be watching it as the debate starts all of 20 minutes before the kickoff of the New York Jets – Dallas Cowboys game.

As Sun Tzu (and Napolean and a few others) said, “Never interrupt your adversaries when they’re making a mistake.”

No, my friend, this is not Debbie Wasserman-Schultz making a mistake – at least not in her world and for her purposes.

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Seriously, he’s just got to be funnin’ us all, right?  And I bet he said the same thing about Havenstein and Brown, too:

“Kelly’s support among the Republican grassroots runs deep, and any suggestion to the contrary is obviously false,” said Steve Merrill, a former governor and chairman of Ayotte’s campaign. “She continues to deliver results for our state, and is a strong and capable voice for our party.”

Well, I can say without much agitation that Merrill isn’t talking to the same grassroots that I am – or others like me.  Look, if the flippin’ Concord Monitor is seeing that not all is well in the NH GOP, there’s a problem.  Really Steve, Kelly Ayotte voting to raise the cost of our standard of living (voting for the “screw you, free market” bill that mandates efficiency) on one hand, and as the piece points out, siding with Obama on his Clean Power Plan that will increase the cost of electricity on the other hand – thanks for the pincer movement, Kelly!  And by supporting her, it seems that Steve Merrill thinks that the poor will be just dandy with this… 

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Sighingly, I have to say that for many Republican politicians, that’s the part of the meme they either forget or wish that WE would forget.  However, more and more, the utter disdain and the [political] sins that many of the Republican “leadership” have participated in are, as Rev “G-D America” Wright used to say, coming home to roost.  Nationally, we see the outsiders (e.g., Trump, Cruz, Carson) far outstripping the Establishment approved Prez candidates.  The base is ignoring what the Party bosses want us to do.  Why?

They’ve shown that they take the base for granted. “Support the Party – look what the Dems have done” – and then vote to raise the national debt, and support other Obama policies (right, Kelly Ayotte). “Vote for us, we Conservative Republicans” – and then pass Medicaid Expansion (right, Jeb Bradley?).  Speaking of supporting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion, Democrat appointed NH Speaker of the House Shawn Jasper is now showing that he is truly bought and paid for; from the UL (reformatted, emphasis mine):

 Reauthorizing the NH Health Protection Program or Medicaid expansion is one of the top issues for the upcoming session. Medicaid expansion is also the first salvo in the already-begun race for House Speaker, even though the general election is nearly a year away. Rep. Laurie Sanborn, R-Bedford…is campaigning for the House’s top post, although House Speaker Shawn Jasper has already said he will seek to maintain the title.

On Friday she said a number of people have approached her about running for the Speaker’s post. “A number of people are concerned about the Speaker’s policy positions,” Sanborn said. “If you want a conservative liberty oriented representative who shows respect for everyone in the House, I would be that candidate.”

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From The Corner (emphasis mine):

You know the song “Let There Be Peace on Earth”? I know it as well as you know something you were required to sing in elementary school, because I was. All those adorable little voices chiming in for world peace. But even in liberal New Jersey, we sang it with the original lyrics. Those lyrics include these words: “With God as our father, brothers all are we.” Apparently, that was too religious for Microsoft, which has produced a holiday (!) TV commercial featuring new young piping voices singing the song, but the lyrics referring to God are gone.

Really? Is that the point American culture has reached, that a Christmas video from a major corporation scrubs God from the song?

And they wonder why Trump

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That would be “insult the base, lose”.  John Kasich keeps saying that Trump can’t win – like this Sununu-anointed pol can, running single digits in the polls against Trump’s double digits and Lindsey Graham relegated to the “little kids” debate table?  Methinks that insulting ANY Republican and losing their vote would be, interestingly enough, a losing proposition.  But Graham goes there, and almost (??) throws the race card (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says GOP front-runner Donald Trump is doing so well in the polls because nearly half of Republican primary voters think President Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim.   “Well there’s about 40 percent of the Republican primary voter who believes that Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim,” Graham told Boston Herald Radio on Friday, according to BuzzFeed News.

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Yeah, click bait.  Once in a while, it’s a blogger’s guilty pleasure, but not quite a field to far to go on this one – this mal-spawned hot mess of the grandson of Kyoto.  Fifty thousand attendees carboning it up just to demand that we all carbon down.  And their tactics are quite familiar – from RedState, a great explanation why we call them Watermelon environmentalists (emphasis mine):

…Many environmentalists are watermelons. Green on the outside, inside they are as red as any communist ever was. It is not a coincidence that the environmental movement picked up strength after the Soviet Union collapsed. The propagandists for communism against capitalism had to go somewhere. They went to the environmental movement.

With demands for state subsidy, an agenda hostile to western powers, and a deep antipathy toward free markets and capitalism, the two groups merged. Like Stalinists before them, environmental elite wish to purge society of capitalists, anyone who challenges them, and free market ideas. Like communists before them, they wrap themselves in a moral banner for war — against rising sea levels, against drought, against all sorts of things no right thinking person could be against.

And like the communists of old, the environmentalists also love their five year plans.

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I just don’t understand the hoo-ha over Bernie Sanders who is about as Communist / Socialist that has run for US President since Eugene Debs (even as Hillary is trying hard to out-Left him).  Socialism has NEVER worked, but I guess that with the “divide everyone” war on American citizen by Obama and the nonstop “I will give you” of other peoples’ money.  LIVs all around and not a single set of their eyeballs to watch the eventual meltdown that comes – Venezuela that finally awoke from its torpor and misery and kicked the Chavista socialists out of power in the legislature.  John at Powerline has this observation (emphasis mine):

Venezuelans were appalled not only by the poverty that socialism caused, but also by the corruption that accompanied the Chavez/Maduro regime. This is no surprise: as Glenn Reynolds has said many times, leftists hate free market policies because, while they enrich the ordinary citizen, they provide insufficient opportunities for graft among the political elite.

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SB left this comment at Steve’s post “Trump, Cruz, Carson, Rubio“:

I hope both campaign managers (Trump and Cruz) are prepared for the RNC to be up to dirty tricks to try to stop them from getting the nomination. This is no time to be gentlemen if the RNC plays dirty.

Well, it looks like Sundance over at the Conservative Treehouse thinks it is an eventuality and not an if.  The post talks about what we saw in the primary in the run up to this last November’s general election – Mississippi Redeux.  It’s a longish post so just an abstract here (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Tripwire Alert – GOPe Signals Intent To Use “Mississippi Strategy” Against Trump After Trump’s Primary Victory….

Remember Mississippi?The professional apparatus of the Republican Party are signaling their intent to do exactly what we predicted they would do.   Trump will win the primary, and the GOPe will split the party to run an additional candidate in the general election. It’s not Trump going third party – It’s the establishment GOP (GOPe) intending to go third party.   They are planning a modified version of the Mississippi Strategy from 2014.

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As the Big Government post says “Why BOTHER”?  After all, we’re only talking Trillions of dollars of other peoples’ money (er, that would be us taxpayers, and not the Secretary of State that’s boasting he’s now flown more than Million Mile Hillary).  From COP21 in Paris (the next attempt to implement Kyoto):

This ought to be fun listening to ‘Grok commenter Bruce Curie try to explain – no data, no skeptic; straight out of the SecState’ mouth (aka, LiveShot as Howie Carr or Lurch).  What Lurch says is just STUNNING – it’s almost as if he’s saying “We’re just making this all up for nothin’ but it will grow Government bigger”! It just proves out what most of us have said – all of this Watermelon Environmentalism masks the Red (the REAL color Red) of those proposing it – it’s all about the control of others.

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