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From the President through all his Progressive surrogates (Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Carol Shea-Porter, and Annie Kuster included) you hear that America has all these issues that make America bad, bad, and badder. They say we have these inequalities (of pretty much the kind that appear out of nothingness and into the nothingness that is permanently between their ears when it comes to Individual control (but as dense as lead when it comes to Collective control)); we have social inequalities they say – some real but mostly perceived, – but to solve them these Progressive politicians divide us by gender, they divide us by race, divide us by socioeconomic status and demographics (sure, toss in whatever the heck sex / gender means anymore).  And they say the way to solve all our problems and make everybody happy is to mandate equality of outcome.  If we just make you all the same, you’ll all be happy.

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UPDATE: I forgot this from Instapundit as the setup:

WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? The thing is, the NRSC went all-in to deep-six Milt Wolf in favor of doddering nonresident Pat Roberts. Now Roberts faces a “tough re-election fight,” with this observation: “It’s difficult to see how Milton Wolf would have done appreciably worse in this case, and he might have held the Republican base together better.” Especially as the NRSC pissed off — and pissed on — the base in backing Roberts.

When you’ve crapped on the base, don’t expect them, any more, to be good little soldiers and meekly vote for their least worst.  Not happening anymore.

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Republican Wave?  Wave?  Wave it good bye? 

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Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.  Mostly.  Oh sure – the elected GOP officials, especially in DC, are listening, but as Hugh points out (a noted West Coast talk show host, lawer, syndicated columnist and author), they are listening to the wrong people and proving to the base that there is such a thing as Potomac Flu, the DC Bubble, the Beltway Worldview. Like Hotel California, you can check in but never seem to want to check out.  They are ignoring their base – and in doing so, can’t seem to grasp why the base is angry with them and like Eric Cantor (and Frank Guinta here in NH last cycle), lose.  They have lost sight that the Principles in DC ought to reflect the Principles from home – those that brung ya to the dance as it were.  Except after the elections, “were” becomes the operative phrase.

I’d suggest you read Hugh Hewitt ‘s whole piece, but here are a few bon mots that the base (er, that would be us) is upset about while the Party officials merely party on (and failing to watch what happens to a Party that strays at the top from the bottom below – e.g., UKIP) – some reformatting and emphasis mine.  The list of “influencers” is rather impressive as well.

• The “electeds” who make up the Beltway GOP Elite barely consult with many of its own “public intellectuals” within the nation’s capital, and apparently not at all with those who live outside of the Oz that D.C. has become.
• The elected GOP, to put it bluntly, hears the noise from the grassroots and it concerns them –even scares them– but the elected GOP does not actually listen to what those grassroots are saying. The policy proposals put forward and the strategy developed on the Hill do not reflect what the grassroots want and thus the friction between the Beltway GOP and its voters is large and growing larger.

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We here at GraniteGrok have blogged about the NH Senate Majority PAC – pretty much run by NH State Senate President Chuck Morse and NH State Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley – here, here, here, here, here and here for starters.  I do wonder, given those posts and the others, if it really is (as it name connotes) trying to actually have a Republican majority in the Senate of good Republicans that stand for Party Principles – or is it just another group of self-righteous crony politicans that have been backslapping themselves over what they’ve accomplished contra the base (e.g., what Hugh Hewitt describes for DC transplanted here and writ a bit smaller for Concord):  “but the elected GOP does not actually listen to what those grassroots are saying“, “The electeds are attempting to dictate“, and “downright indifferent via silence or openly hostile to much of what the grassroots holds dear“.  Simple evidence to that hostility was their votes to establish Obamacare’s Expanded Medicare, the broad base Gas Tax, and the silencing of political dissenting speech (SB120).

They like their cronies – thus all of the expenditures on propping up with lies of omission on the most vulnerable of their clique during the Primary season (e.g, drunk Dave Boutin and Nancy “I don’t care what the US Supreme Court said – Medicaid Expansion HAS to be passed because it is the Law” Stiles.  And this dismissal of anyone wanting to crash their little Senate Rogue Republican Party.  It seems, from what I’ve been told, that the NH GOP invited all of the NH Senate Republican candidates in for a meeting…

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This from Erik Erikson at RedState – more indication that the Republican Wave may turn out to be a drip (reformatting (some) and emphasis mine):

Throughout primary season, the National Republican Senatorial Committee in alliance with groups like the Chamber of Commerce and Main Street Partnership have treated the Republican base as their enemy.

Running scorched earth campaigns, they have attacked conservative groups, they have attacked conservative activists, and they have funded third party campaigns to paint the tea party and its candidates as racists. They have been able to win a number of primaries doing this. In conservative events around the country, conservative activists still use Mississippi as a rallying cry against the establishment.

So let us not be surprised by this news…

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Why is it so secretive for Republican office holder Kelly Ayotte to openly publish her “public meetings”?  I got this yesterday from a disgruntled Republican who is tired of Republicans acting just like the Democrats in this matter (emphasis mine):

From: a ‘Grok Friend that wishes to remain anonymous
To: “skip@granitegrok.com” <skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: 8/26/2014 10:19:47 AM
Subject: Ayotte Town Hall Scheduled for 8/28 @ 4P in Littleton

I know that its shocking that this isn’t posted on Ayotte’s website……..but

Was on phone with NHGOP this badgering them over the hypocrisy of berating Shaheen over lack of town halls while not calling out Shea Porter, Kuster or our own Ayotte

Indeed.  Why is it that the NH GOP Leadership – that would be NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn, NH Senate Republicans Morse and Bradley, and US Senator Kelly Ayotte

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And now for the Closing Remarks by Brendan Kelly, Dan Innus, & Frank Guinta in concluding their part of the Seacoast GOP (Exeter Town GOP, Rockingham County GOP, and the Seacoast Republican Women) NH GOP Candidate Debates for those running in NH’s First Congressional District for US Congress:

 Next to go up will be the Senatorial Debate series later on today (I hope – life has been a bit topsy-turvy at Chez Skip’s the last couple of weeks) between Bob Smith, Jim Rubens, and Scott Brown.

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