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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:
Being interviewed by NPR’s Diane Rehm, former Obama DefSec and CIA head Leon Panetta had this to say about who was at fault in the Benghazi scandal (you remember, where 4 Americans were left to die on their own by then Secretary of State Clinton, President Obama (after all, the blameless stop at his desk, … Read more
(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
Or better said: Though some different gender identities are unusual, gender theorists consider them all normal, a word which the dictionary defines as “usual.” So though to call something unusual normal would be unusual it’s not unusual among gender theorists who are abnormal. Tranformative, isn’t it? (H/T: The Revolting Truth)
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
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” DiscussionToday 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.
One name particularly stood out from the list of Republicans who have publicly endorsed a Democrat for NH State Senate that Steve posted: Hon. Susan Emerson, Rindge That would be the same Susan Emerson who, a few years ago, decided that she would be perfect to be the next NH GOP Chair. Think about that … Read more
“…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?
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:
And this make him different from Jeanne Shaheen….how? And no,
From Instapundit: AMERICANS SHORT ON REASONS TO TRUST: “There’s a connection between the Secret Service’s Colombian hooker scandal and Americans’ increased worry about Ebola. Both have to do with trust,” as I write in my latest USA Today column. Trust. As in “Consistency breeds Trust yields Votes”. Given the amount of distrust in Government that has been created in the … Read more
In spite of popular myths about capitalism oppressing the poor, the poor are worse off in those things provided by government, such as schooling, police protection, and justice. There are more good cars in the ghettos than good schools. – David Friedman Above emphasis mine – it is hard to argue with. We don’t fuss … Read more
(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:
NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior“ And yet, from our Declaration of Independence (in part): … We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and … Read more
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
“When the ‘road-block’ has been cleared we can discuss the election.“
Well back in Part 2, Mark Vincent (NH GOP Area Vice Chair) deflect in an answer back to John (Part 1) – well, the Platform hasn’t been updated because the NH GOP has a lot going on with the election, so get back to work and don’t worry your head about the NH GOP Platform. Well, that blow off didn’t set well – nor should it have. Ticking off someone that HAS been doing the grunt work and the field work is not a great thing to “motivate” neither him or others now seeing this reprimand:
From: John A Diefenbach
Date: Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: NH GOP & the platform
To: Mark Vincent
Cc: Brady Schulman, Jennifer Horn, “Humphreys, Tom”, Ray Chadwick, Britt CarterMy personal contributions, for a guy on a fixed-income, exceeded $2000.00 this past cycle. That’s a lot of money!! On July 20th, at MY expense, I hosted a yard party for all the major candidates (sans Brown & Walt). This included Bob Smith, Andrew Hemingway, Marilinda Garcia, Kevin Avard, Chris Adams, Dave Wheeler and candidates from neighboring districts
Coupled with organizing sign “plantings” in Districts Hills.-26 & senate D-12; placing not just one candidate’s signs but all, including D-38 (Kofalt & Edelblut)! Oops! I forgot: Scott Brown & “WALT”… they were NOT ‘planted’ by me, nor will they be.
Me work the Phone Bank? Been there…done that; my work is best performed in the field.
“This isn’t about being a “good Republican” it is all about being THEIR Republican”
Well another techie has let me know that he has contacted the NH GOP to offer his company’s services to fill in any time crunch on the part of the NH GOP and update the NH GOP Platform. Oh, by the way, he’s no “extremist” – he was the NH GOP nominee for State Senate from my area last cycle. Oh, and Matt Mowers hasn’t even the manners to return a call to Josh, either. Just like everyone who is calling in.
And they want the Liberty & Freedom (e.g., conservatives, libertarians, TEA Party, 9/12ers) to support the NH GOP candidates but can’t even bother to answer an email or a phone call from them?
From: “Josh Youssef”
To: mowers@nhgop.org
Sent: 10/8/2014 1:17:13 PM
Subject: Platform
Hey Matt-
We met earlier this year at your office. Hope you have been well.
What’s the status of the revised platform update to the site? We need to get this up ASAP…we are quickly losing the support of conservatives
No, not trying to go all Drudge, but face it, all we’ve heard from the Obama and his Administration was 1) No, Ebola will not come to the US (2 weeks later, er…), 2) Trust us, we got this (and then got surprised by the late Mr. Duncan who brought it to Dallas and just walked about for a while). So a couple of headlines from Lucianne.com caught my eye and I could only shake my head – do they give you the warm and fuzzies that this Administration is 1) actually has been telling us the truth and 2) are going to let the US get WAY caught behind because the Obama Administration doesn’t do “leading from the front”?
Does Obama really even know what he’s talking about?
Obama: You Can´t Get Ebola ´Sitting Next to Someone on a Bus;´ CDC: ´Avoid Public Transportation
Speaking in a video message to residents of West African countries currently experiencing outbreaks of Ebola, President Barack Obama dispensed advice on how residents can avoid the disease, including: “You cannot get it through casual contact like sitting next to someone on a bus.”
At the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising Americans who travel to the Ebola-stricken nations to “avoid public transportation.”
And then there’s the “Protection is Number One, but we’re gonna allow thousands from West Africa just walk around freely”:
This from Moe Lane at RedState and it has a couple of bon mots that caught my eye – but I do wonder if the Republican Elites will ever get the message he plainly states?
PPS: Believe it or not, I don’t enjoy writing posts like this. The national committees provide indispensable assistance to campaigns, from expert advice to financial resources to supplementing volunteer networks. And I know that the rank-and-file folks are just trying to do their job. But – and let us be honest, here – there is a broad sense of entitlement among the top level of permanent staff that is getting in the way of the committee’s ostensible purpose. This is particularly obvious when it comes to their digital and social media outreach cadre, which apparently collectively thinks that the proper relationship between them and the Republican base should involve a leash.
Yeah, that’s been made clear over and over and over again. Sit, sit…good boy. Here, have a bone…no, wait, punch your ballot RIGHT HERE first…GOOD boy!
At what point do we call this Government dependency? As opposed to a handup? Didn’t Obama just tell us that the economy is doing well? (H/T: Independent Journal Review)
From Redstate (via Scotusblog), this snippet (in honor of Ed catching double voter Jared Cram – emphasis mine):
The Supreme Court, with two Justices noting dissents, on Wednesday afternoon allowed North Carolina to bar voters from registering and casting their ballots on the same day, and to refuse to count votes that were cast in the wrong polling places. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. The majority did not explain its action.
The order gives the state time to file an appeal from lower-court rulings striking down those two provisions, which were part of a larger, sweeping change in voting rights in the state. If the Court grants review of the state’s appeal, the postponement will remain in effect until there is a decision.
Perfect! Here in NH at the last election, we saw an incredible 100,000 same day registrations (where we have about 890,000 voters) – and finally being pushed into to, letters were sent out to verify those registrations – a LOT were undeliverable and no-returns, so voter fraud happens here as well.