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There’s Larry Lessig’s PAC, the MayDay PAC, that is raising and spending millions of dollars this election cycle – to stop others from spending so much money.  So, too, is George Soro’s son.  The Left is as well.  Sorry, their stated of “taking the money out”, I believe, masks the real reason – stopping free speech (e.g., US Supreme Court’s “Citizen United” decision).  So even when Michelle Bachman starts complaining, I just shrug:

Retiring Rep. Michele Bachmann says it’s time to consider campaign spending limits, saying the levels of money raised and spent by candidates in recent elections have gotten out of whack.

“I believe that it is ridiculous the amount of money we’re spending on these elections; it’s gone into the realm of the bizarre and absurd, and even for Washington, D.C., standards,” the Minnesota Republican said Wednesday during an event hosted by the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington.

Bachmann’s comments come four years after raising $13 million for her successful 2010 re-election bid to the House.

“That’s crazy money. That’s crazy that any candidate should have to raise that kind of money,” she said.

Maybe.  Maybe not.  Best example here in NH was 

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It seems that Steve’s post about the 50 RINOs for Peggy Gilmore, the Democrat running for the NH State Senate and my quick thought flashlighting RINO Susan Emerson has provoked some email traffic and I got tagged into one.  The overriding question is “Why doesn’t the NH GOP vet its candidates” followed up by “an” answer, purported by NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn that the NH GOP By-Laws prevented it.

Really?  I didn’t believe that then – and don’t believe it now.  Here’s how the thread went:

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Progressivism and Cultural Marxism on the move: it seems that Political Correctness and sexual preferences are about to trump the First Amendment Rights of pastors and priests.  This is a huge war on Religious Freedom and Free Speech (reformatted and emphasis mine):

The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court.

This is the mark of a totalitarian – squelch anything with which is disagreeable to the current government or their identity.  This is a

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That would be that hack group that has been unethically (IMHO) attacking another woman, Republican Marilinda Garcia running for US Congress in NH’s CD-2 on all kinds of topics in absolutely execrable fashions (proving that Democrats only care about women that might vote for them but CERTAINLY not those running against them – hypocrites!).  Thus, proving that Giffords and her husband aren’t just about taking guns away from one of the safest States in the Union, but simply just another Liberal / hackorama group trying to masquerade as “practical” when all their actions scream “You need to be controlled!”.  But I digress – here is the presser:

Press Release: 2nd Amendment Women Left Out Of “Protect All Women” Discussion

October 15, 2014

Today Gabby Giffords and her group Americans for Responsible Solutions came to New Hampshire to meet with women leaders and discuss guns and domestic violence. They have named their tour “Protect All Women” except Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly have neglected to include all women in their roundtable discussion.

Since the Granite State was just named the “Safest State in America”, the Women’s Defense League believes that Giffords has simply come to a state she doesn’t know to push gun control legislation that New Hampshire doesn’t need or want.

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“…are ‘blah’ about the midterms because they’ve lost faith that winning them will make a difference.”

Here in NH, the NH GOP is all happy talk – and I’m not all that sure it is warranted and I will be honest, I am cautiously pessimistic.  It does me no good to reverse my predictions (lose the Gov, lose the Senator, maybe pick up one of the Congressional seats, effectively lose the NH Senate (heck, one could say that with Nancy Stiles, they lost it last time anyways and then the rest of the Rogue Republicans just put that condition on STEROIDS with the Democrats’  Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion, the broad based gas tax, and implementing their mini-DISCLOS Act (aka, SB120), can one really tell much of a difference?  And with NH Senate Republican Majority PAC blowing tons of donor money to prop up direly flawed candidates (that would be David “I don’t know if I was drunk” Boutin and Nancy Stiles) in the Primary, well, the message has been sent.  It seems that the egg on my face may well be the NH House – but th game ain’t finished until its finished and it is STILL not clear the GOP has the GOTV capability that the Dems have (with Catalist and their allied groups).

So, I’ve been putting up other folks’s writings that encapsulate why Conservatives and the Liberty & Freedom folks all over the country are loath to support GOP candidates based on what the Grand Old Party has done to them.  Let’s get real – people are no longer to support your candidates after you’ve beat them about the head and shoulders and told “we don’t want your kind”.  From the National Review’s Campaign Spot (reformatted, emphasis mine):

So why do so many conservatives feel disgruntled, disappointed, bored, or frustrated with politics at the moment?

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Well, how will this play out?

Poll: Shaheen 48 Percent, Brown 46 Percent

Republican challenger Scott Brown is within the margin of error in New Hampshire’s Senate race, according to a new poll.

A new Survey USA/High Point University survey shows Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen winning 48 percent of the vote to Brown’s 46 percent among likely voters. The poll has a 3.5 percent margin of error.

Crawling closer.  But this poll was conducted before Scott really thumbed the eyes of the Pro-life folks here in NH, many of which are in the GOP base with his ad that:

• Made it absolutely clear that he is pro-abortion
• Made it absolutely clear that he has no problem in making these Pro-life folks participate in those abortions by funneling their tax money to Planned Parenthood.

And this make him different from Jeanne Shaheen….how?  And no,

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(paraphrased from Dire Straits: “…money for nothing and chicks for free”.)

It's almost impossible for an undocumented woman in South Texas to get an abortion: http://t.co/CJiMiY4UaE pic.twitter.com/TXmleFXk4c

— Fusion News (@FusionNews) October 9, 2014

‘Grok friend Warner Todd Huston relays the story that Spanish speaking Fusion News isn’t too happy that it is harder for illegal aliens to illegally cross over our border to get to an abortion mill to kill their unborn babies – at someone else’s expense.    Going over to the link, the title of the Fusion piece says it all: 

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Havenbagger – yeah, I chose it specifically for Walt Havenstein.  Can’t take credit for coming up with it but given his absolutely arrogant non-apology for his teabagger comment (for which MANY in the Liberty & Freedom wing of the Party have asked (some even very politely after pointing out the PR harm it will do to his campaign, but were refused), it seems appropriate.  And all it would have taken would have been a polite “I’m sorry” (even if, as he has claimed, he didn’t know what it meant).  Even after having explained to him that that many in the L&F movement have taken it to be the same as if he had called us all “the N word”; he hasn’t apologized

Subnote: IF he had used the N-word unknowingly instead,  would he have NOT apologized given how many consider that a slur of the highest degree as well simply because of what he has held about his teabagger comment, that he just didn’t know?

And during dinner, the new Scott Brown ad came on – full bore

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