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“NH Voters Embraced ‘O’Brien’ Budget & Agenda in 2014“: Attention: newly elected Conservative & Libertarian leaning NH House Republicans considering for whom to cast their votes for Repubs Bill O’Brien, Gene Chandler, or Lori Sanborn:

• NEW: “Also, I have heard that Merrill, Duprey, Ayotte, Guinta, and Benson are working on a joint letter in support of Chandler.”

Turning out to be the Establishment vs the grassroots, all over again….capitalizing on the Democrat demonization of him, eh?

• Is it the case that Gene Chandler is amassing support for himself only to say at the very last moment “I am stepping aside to give Laurie Sanborn ‘her time” – switch your votes to her” so as to “lock out” Bill O’Brien?
• Why is US Senator Kelly Ayotte going to go all out in campaigning AGAINST Bill O’Brien?

Why are we ONLY hearing rumored actions against O’Brien? 

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NH GOP Leadership – Taking hostage of the NH GOP Platform continues!

Update: or maybe not the last one?

Update 11/10 – the Last One. For Won they didn’t.  NOW, a week after the election, the NH GOP finally updated its platform…timely, very timely boys and gals.  Ya think it was…..politically motivated?  Couldn’t be, these pristine, white as the drifting snow, NH GOP Leaders we have – nothing but our best interest at heart (honest – their say-so says so!).  Good lot it did in protecting your chosen top two, eh, from the vicissitudes of “personhood”.  Oh, those “icky social issues that plague us so”.  Except this time, those “social issues” bit you in the ass!

Why?  Because real people that have real jobs and are trying to raise real families have to contend with the politicization of those social issues by the Democrats – and you told us you don’t care.  What you said was that you don’t have the political cajones to stand up and fight for your base – so they rejected you.   They realized that you craved the middle more than you did for them; that  you disdain your base.  You broke the Trust you didn’t realize you need.  You sent the message – we listened.  We actually listened.

You sounded like Democrats: against Conservatives, against the TEA Party values, against Pro-Life and against the Second Amendment. Holding back the changes to the NH GOP Platform was petty, self serving – and sent the message that you delighted in rubbing our noses in it.  Obviously, all those high priced consultants got their money for their wrong advice – and for your money, you got the shaft from us for free. Satisfied? Stark and Langdon. Like I said here: “I will say that our John Stark for Governor and John Langdon was first done as a lark” but….

Imagine what might happen if we really got serious about this over the next two years?

Changing the perception of the voter paradigm – that it is too precious a thing to waste MY Vote on those that not only do not hold MY beliefs but actively campaign against them.  Two years, folks, two years.  Just imagine…

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Schadenfreude for real – Drudge headline-a-like time (sorta, sideways):

PRO-GUN CANDIDATE HOLDS 341 VOTE LEAD FOR GABBY GIFFORDS’ FORMER SEAT

Pro-life candidate wins seat vacated by Wendy ‘Abortion Barbie’ Davis

Yeah, that’s right – people the total opposite replaced them in their seats.  Texas Democrat State Senator Wendy Davis, who came to fame in filibustering a pro-life bill in pink sneakers (and a catheter) tried and got whomped in running for Texas Governor (being vacated by Rick Perry) – Texas voters decided that her claim to fame was oh so 15 months ago.  Only the pro-baby killing throng decided to try to milk that 15 minutes for all its worth.

Wendy Davis, the Democrat gubernatorial candidate in Texas, lost her state senate seat in addition to the federal one. And to add insult to injury, the seat was claimed by a pro-life Tea Party activist woman (Konni Burton).

Gee, I know of another gubernatorial candidate here in NH that was, in part, done in by Pro-life TEA Party folks.  Can I hear an “AMEN!”?

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Cuomo had a secret re-election ‘pact’ with Republicans

The state’s most powerful Republican secretly worked for months to help Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo win re-election — in exchange for Cuomo’s promise not to aid Senate Democrats in their Long Island races, a top New York GOP leader has charged.

We here at GraniteGrok get excoriated all the time by Establishment Republicans for supporting the NH GOP Platform,  our Constitutions, and the values espoused therein. Clearly there have been Republicans that we have not supported, but we would not do what this Republican did – or Doug Scammon (short version: conspired with Democrats to become the NH Speaker of the House years ago).  This disturbing story out of NY continues (reformatted, emphasis mine):

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It’s intellectually weak, morally bankrupt, and self-delusion.  Selling oneself that way

Sidenote: which, tangentially, was the basic theme of Walt Havenstein’s campaign – “I can manage it better”.  Perhaps true.  But it also shows a complete acceptance of the status quo.  Voters across the nation said “not enough” to that, a complete rejection of the Leftist Progressive vision that the Dems brought.  Liberty, Freedom, less government, more choices that individuals can and should make their own decisions and not those in Govt usurping that role – that’s what the vote was about this past Tuesday.

is limiting, shallow, and trite.  Yesterday on Meet the Press – Chuck Todd was interviewing Scott Walker, the man that beat the Democrats three times in the last four years, in a DEEP BLUE State, to retain his governorship.  Here he talks, not about being timid and not making waves (which is the track that the NH GOP Establishment wants in its fervor to “control” the NH Speaker of the House in trying to “lock out” Bill O’Brien; emphasis mine) but in governing by the Republican ideals:

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For as long as I’ve been part of the TEA Party movement (“Fiscal Frugality, Govt staying within Constitutional bounds, Free Markets” are the 3 TEA Party principles.  Period), it has undergone demonization by the Democrats at full roar.  THIS election cycle, we saw the Establishment Republicans (Mitch McConnell: “We will crush them!”) join them.  Thus, one WOULD have expected smiles all around between the Dems “Big Government” and the Establishment “Slightly lesser Big Govt” Rs – “Mission Accomplished”!

Uh-huh!  Sorry to explode that bubble, dudes and dudettes: More TEA Party folks in Congress, not less

11 to Watch: Meet the New Crop of Tea Party Conservatives in Congress

The incoming wave of Republicans who will shake up Washington’s political landscape includes some tea party candidates who promise to promote an agenda based on conservative principles such as limited government, traditional American values and a strong national defense. For those who’d like to get to know these fresh faces, The Daily Signal created a roundup of the newest tea party favorites in the House and Senate.

Read them and weep – the TEA Party is not dead as you can’t kill ideas.  As Glen Reynolds keeps saying: “ If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine”.  In the Senate, they listed:

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The last couple of election cycles we’ve heard nothing but blathering about how much money there is in campaigning – billions! It is a lot of money but in our media driven culture, it is costly.  But I also remember that in our country’s infancy, the price paid by those anonymous pamphleteers were paying a high price to get their message out as well – yet they paid it.  Those papers were a force multiplier – it allowed them to get their viewpoint out faster and more efficiently compared to hauling around a soapbox from corner to corner.  It was the essence of free speech – but there was a cost.  Just like today.

Jim Rubens, who ran for US Senate from NH this past election cycle, stopped by Steve’s post “Democrat Priorities are Not America’s Priorities”  that spoke about campaign finance left a comment (here, in part):

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And that seemingly has been the under-reported story of this election with all of the emphasis on the US Senate flipping to the GOP (and to a lesser degree, an additional 12 seats in the US House).  However, starting with the 2010 TEA Party election (face it, it was the TEA Party that dragged the GOP over the line in stopping the Progressive domination of both chambers in Congress and Obama), the Republicans started marching through the States – voters preferred their policies over the Progressive Democrats.  While here in NH there was a loss of the NH House (big time) and the NH Exec. Council, that was reversed this week.

But the magnitude of how much of the country the Democrats have lost is well shown by this graphic:

Two thirds of all of the chambers (upper and lower regardless of what they are called in each state) are now Republican controlled.  And voters put them there (regardless of what the Dems say otherwise) – the will of the People.  This means that the legislation coming from them should be more inline with traditional American values than not – but certainly not the socialistic Progressive ones (that of foreign origin and CERTAINLY not concerning American values).  And even with those crying out that the TEA Party movement has died, well, it still is working to bring the GOP NOT further to the right but back down to its roots.  This is not the mark of a “regional party” as Democrats & pundits alike have scornfully blathered.

“Combined with unexpected victories in gubernatorial races in Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts, the Republicans are poised to control a higher percentage of state governments than at any point in the past 25 years.

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