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A pack, not a herd – De Tocqueville example where regular citizens see a need, and go fill it.  No Government necessary to provide “guidance” – in this case, Government has been running away from it.  Given the anger that many have towards their Government (re: Obama Administration) is more for itself, a fundamental transformation, and now Obama’s legacy, and seeing that this Administration is all too willing to throw those that have given much to protect the rest of us, ordinary citizens are doing the job that Government won’t do.  So they have, all over the country, gone and stand guard at recruiters’ offices.

And gaining a LOT of PR and media attention.  Methinks the brass is mostly caught in the middle, but some of this is of their own political natures at the top, so now they’ve decided that they’re tired of being embarrassed.  And sent out an order to the recruiters to call the cops on these armed citizens – putting them at risk of getting SWATTED?  Emphasis mine:

Subject: USAREC Policy – Armed citizens at recruiting centers ATO’s,

Situation: The USAREC COC has received reports from two Brigade ATOs, social media and TV coverage that law abiding armed citizens are standing outside of our recruiting centers in an attempt to safeguard our recruiters.

Execution:

1) Recruiters will not acknowledge the presence or interact with these civilians. If questioned by these alleged concerned citizens; be polite, professional, and terminate the conversation immediately and report the incident to local law enforcement and complete USAREC Form 958 IAW USAREC 190-4 (SIR)

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This one is for you, Ed Naile (the foremost Voter Fraud hunter in NH), and one is accomplished with the help of your friends:  the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program.  The Heritage Foundation has documented nearly 250 cases where nefarious citizens, officials, candidates and campaign operatives conspired to commit vote fraud, compromising the integrity of our elections to achieve their ideological goals.

New additions:

Kentucky: In eastern Kentucky, Ross Harris and Loren Glenn Turner funneled $41,000 to the 2002 county judgeship campaign of Doug Hays for what the defendants claimed was a lawful operation to pay more than 1,200 people $50 each to drive voters to the polls.  But a jury determined that this alleged vote-hauling program was just a disguise for what was in reality a vote-buying scheme. The punishment reflected the severity of the fraud: Hays was sentenced to six months behind bars, and Harris was hit with a $100,000 fine.

Mississippi:

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is it that you don’t get?  Much part of the base’s angst is often due to the perception that the Establishment “picks” the Party’s candidate, this is just craziness (emphasis mine):

GOP donors wanted Bush, Rubio, and Walker to boycott debates unless Trump was disqualified

So, so dumb, but that’s our donor class for you.

Many national Republican officials are increasingly resigned to Mr. Trump’s looming presence. At a meeting of the Republican Governors Association this week in Aspen, Colo., donors and operatives mused about how to prevent him from hijacking the debate.

One idea that came up was to urge three leading candidates — Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor; Mr. Walker; and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida — to band together and state that they would not participate in any debate in which Mr. Trump was present, using his refusal to rule out a third-party bid as a pretext for taking such a hard line. The thinking, according to a Republican involved in the conversations, was that the lesser-funded prospects who have been eclipsed by Mr. Trump would follow suit, and the TV networks airing the debates would be forced to bar Mr. Trump in order to have a full complement of candidates.

Allahpundit has is own reasons why this is such a dumb reason.  Mine is different (and I already gave away the spoiler):

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Why?  When you FORCE some people into Medicaid, costs go up.  When you give something to people, they say “Someone ELSE is paying for it?  Fine!”.  North Dakota did that…and now the expense to taxpayers is now becoming seen.  And can you guess who (and which Party) is saddling the N.D. taxpayers with this (emphasis mine and reformatted):

Surprise! It seems the costs associated with the expansion of Medicaid in North Dakota are higher than what was originally projected. Yet, Republican North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s decision to expand this awful government-run health care program that’s an integral part of Obamacare is a “win-win” for him, according to Say Anything’s Rob Port:

Yup, Republican!  And wait – it gets better!

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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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“Imagine being awakened in the middle of the night by a gang of police, shouting and waving their weapons at you. They turn your house inside-out, steal your laptop and phone, then order you not to tell anyone they were there. All this happened because your political beliefs landed on the wrong side of those officials in power. This is not a scenario from China, Russia, or Iran. Welcome to the very real tyranny of modern America.”

(H/T: Instapundit, who adds:

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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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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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