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After all, they are JUST so icky and JUST so divisive.  So, ‘splain this one to me, eh?

This all comes as Walker shoots up in the GOP primary polls with the renewed focus he’s placing on social issues and on national security issues.

Social issues.  Polling high.  Why, Doug, why?  Does this mean that social issues get peoples’ attention – and in Scott Walker’s case, votes?  WHAT A CONCEPT!!!

And remember: ALL social issues have fiscal costs.  Especially as abortion / baby organ trafficking is in the headlines.  After all, Doug Scamman, funding THAT social issue costs us over $500 Billion / year just at the Federal level.  Now, here in NH, ONLY CHRIS SUNUNU (R), Executive Councilor, knows how much NH taxpayers are going to be soaked for supporting the same.  HE IS THE SWING VOTE – and he voted for funding Planned Parenthood (that paragon of moral relativism and word shifting) last time around (guess he must pal around with NH GOP Committeeman Steve Duprey who at least gives out of his own pocket to fund PP Action PAC – that lobbies folks like Chris Sununu to make all of us donate to Planned Parenthhod’s immorality.

And I don’t wanna hear about “oh, but Skip, it goes to OTHER activities!”.  Yeah, like selling dead baby parts so some PP mucky-mucky, Dr. Mary Gatter, might get her Lamborghini:

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Given the tape of Planned Parenthood negotiating for baby parts / organs from those aborted babies, a lot of people are looking both askance at and deeply into what this “social issue” truly means for our Society.  It IS EVIL, what is going on and what is being done.  Good on the NH GOP, as Steve posted here, for calling out and holding the Democrats accountable that enable this to happen.

But with this Resolution, one thing caught my eye and made me think “hypocrites one again” – they call for the Democrats to clean their house but never getting around to cleaning their own house?  When they wrote (abstracted, emphasis mine):

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Rumor has it that the NH Executive Council may be voting on extending the current Medicaid Expansion (aka, BradleyCare) tomorrow for the computer systems.  This in the backlight that the budget was vetoed?  This from NH Business Review (reformatted, emphasis mine):

While the House and the Senate are embroiled in a budget standoff, the state Department of Health and Human Services is asking the Governor and Executive Council for permission to spend another $25 million on the state’s troubled contract with Xerox, to implement and run the state’s Medicaid computer information system.

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Especially for those whose lives were taken from them in a most violent way by Muslim terrorism on US soil.  This tweet, when compared to what Obama said after Trayvon Martin, Ferguson, and Baltimore, pretty much summaries what we have not heard and the failure of an official reaction to that sacrifice:

Obama's shoulder shrug on these brave soldiers massacred in TN is because none of them look like Trevon Martin. pic.twitter.com/Si1BbmFV8b

— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) July 19, 2015

Or like Obama.  Or one of the other “protected classes” that the Left believes should now be more equal than others.  And instead of protecting our military, our military leadership in response to now credible and vocal threats against them, are leaving them as soft targets – from Gateway Pundit:

Pentagon Refuses to Arm Military Recruiters – Tells Them to “Close the Blinds”

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On life:

Next, remember that life is not easy for any of us. It will probably not be fair, and it certainly is not all about you. The gray hair and wrinkles you see on older people have been earned the hard way, by living and dealing with the challenges of life. When I was a young adult and labored under the delusion of my own omniscience, I thought I knew more than I actually did. That is a function of youth.

With the wisdom that only comes with the passage of years, the older folks warned me presciently and ominously, “Son, you just live long enough and you’ll see.” They were right; oh, so right. Life is humbling and can be hard, very hard. It is a series of decisions, some harder than others, some good and, unfortunately, too many of them bad. It will be up to each of you to make as many good decisions as possible and to limit the bad ones, then to learn from all of them. But I will urge you to resist when those around you insist on making the bad decisions. Being accepted or popular with those doing wrong is an awful Faustian bargain and, as with all Faustian bargains, not worth it. It is never wrong to do the right thing. It may be hard, but never wrong. . . .

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I am behind on processing video so today, with the threat of scattered thundershowers (one just past and looks like another one soon), I’m trying to get caught up with that work needed to put the videos from the Coalition of NH Taxpayers (CNHT) annual picnic last week (otherwise known as Old Home Day for NH Conservatives).  We did have some problems – streaming (and its recording) was spotty with cell phone saturation from all the folks in the area, our recording camera’s AC brick died, and my ancient FlipCam is feeling its age too,  so not everyone that spoke will show up later (and apologies for that.

First up is former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore (or as TMEW said “Who?”):

And he did sat down for an interview with us – as you will hear, he really didn’t want to answer our question of “what balance” between Religious Liberty as enshrined in the Constitution and lesser laws / regulations / ordinances dealing with gay marriage discrimination:

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In addition to Jim Gilmore and Carly Fiorina, some local NH folks acted as stand-ins (or “surrogates”) for other Presidential campaigns:

• Zack Carrier for the Ted Cruz campaign
• NH State Rep Victoria Sullivan for the Rand Paul campaign
• Taylor Baxter, also for the Rand Paul campaign
• Tom Mulkeen for the Jeb Bush campaign
• Tom Colantuono for the Chris Christie campaign
• Chris “Woody” for the Dr. Ben Carson campaign

Zack Carrier                              Victoria Sullivan

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A couple of points / thoughts from Thursday’s Donald Trump event now that I have seen him in person – the attitude of the crowd  and the mainstream Republican Class in a stream of conscienceness (re: not necessarily well organized):

• I had heard most of his talking points before – TV, YouTube.  Nothing really new so a bit disappointing.  To me, being a political and news junkie, it was a bit “surface levelly” – nothing deep, no fine details.  Nor could I, if really pressed, attach deep philosophical foundations to his speech / talking points.  Thus, to me, it left a lacking and I think this is why a lot of folks who look at this “sport” like me, especially with Establishment GOP pundits, are disdainful of The Donald.
• This is extremely wrong headed and they totally miss the most important part of what is going on here and in my estimation, The Donald is actually the lesser part of that whole.
• Even being that lesser part, he has picked up on what the Republican base is aching for – and has found pretty much lacking in most of the field.  Ted Cruz gets it from a Constitutional standpoint, Carly Fiorina gets it from a results standpoint, and I think Bobby Jindal gets it from the Liberty standpoint (re: Religious Liberty, he is standing tall where Mike Pence dropped like a wet cheap suit).
• Aching – what unites Trump’s base is an unabashed pride in America and that it IS the best Country ever in history.  They realize that it has flaws and it will continue to have them but that it has been and can be a moral good for the world.

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I am no fan of John McCain.  Yes, GraniteGrok “fought” for him back in 2008 but it was more against Obama (who we knew back then that he’d eventually start acting like he has the last few years – his Communist / Muslim background demanded it just as much as a leopard cannot change its spots). He has, however, supported policies that are definitively not conservative but he has tried to play one in his Senatorial campaigns – just long enough to be elected.  Too many times, “Maverick” has double crossed Party principles in his “crossing the aisle”.  That said, one has to give him his due for his service during Viet Nam and his incarceration as a P.O.W. when his jet was shot down.

I’ve done a fair amount of writing about Trump lately (the last and longest one here).  No, not that he is my guy but to try to show that the people who have been flocking to his rallies have had their internal mindsets and political worldview (i.e., the general Republican candidates, officials, and elected office holders have failed them in failing to live up to their promises with looked for actions).  That said, and their angst that strong, the attack on McCain will have the effect, even if McCain blew the first spitball by calling out Trump for “activating the ‘crazies'”.

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